The Asia-Pacific Sprint Contest Committee would like to announce the latest
running of this spectacular radiosporting event - note changes in the rules:

Objective:
For stations outside the Asia-Pacific region to work as many Asia-Pacific stations as possible within the 2 hour time limit.
For stations inside the Asia-Pacific region to work as many stations as possible, anywhere in the world, within the 2 hour time limit.
(A complete list of the Asia-Pacific countries is defined below)

Awards:
1 For each contest, an official AP Sprint T-shirt will be awarded to the top three winners in the Asia-Pacific Region, and the winner of each continent outside the Asia-Pacific region. Winners must have at least 5 QSO's in the log to be eligible for this prize. One can recieve only one T-shirt in the same calender year. If a winner does not recieve a T-shirt for the 2nd or 3rd win in a year, it will be awarded to the runner-up.

2 At the end of each calendar year, an official AP Sprint Plaque will be awarded to the top three winners in the Asia-Pacific Region, and the winner of each continent outside the Asia-Pacific region. The winners are determined by summing the ranking of the 3 sprints of the same calendar year. The winners must participate all 3 sprints of the year to be eligible for this prize. This prize is sponsored by CQ Ham radio (Japan).
- Example: If one's results for the 3 sprints of the same calendar year were 2nd, 5th and 1st, then his/her points for the year would be 8 (=2+5+1). The one with the least point would be the winner.
- This prize is not awarded to a station, but to an operator. An individual who operated more than one station in the same region in the same calendar year is eligible for this prize. Conversely, a station operated by different operators in the same calendar year is not eligible for this prize.

Date/Time/Bands/Mode: 9 February 2008 / 1100-1300 UTC / 20m & 40m / CW

Mark your calendar now - future Asia-Pacific Sprints will be held:
Summer (15m/20m SSB) - 2nd Saturday of June ( 9 June 2007) 1100-1300 UTC
Fall (15m/20m CW) - 3rd Sunday of October (21 Oct. 2007) 0000-0200 UTC
Spring (20m/40m CW) - 2nd Saturday of February ( 9 Feb. 2008) 1100-1300 UTC

Suggested frequencies:
CW - 15m: 21030-21050, 20m: 14030-14050, 40m: 7015-7040 kHz
SSB - 15m: 21350-21380, 20m: 14250-14280 kHz

Power limit:
Stations in Asia-Pacific region - 150W output
Stations outside Asia-Pacific region - legal limit in each country

Entry categories: Single operator, Single radio only
- SO2R type of operation is not allowed (use of 2nd transmitter is not allowed). Use of 2nd receiver (separate or built-in) is allowed.

Contest exchange: RS/RST + Serial number beginning with 001

Duplicate contacts: Same station may be worked only once on the per band

Multipliers: Prefixes per WPX rules (once only - not once per band)

QSY rule:
CW - called station (usually CQer) QSYs at least 1 kHz after a QSO
SSB - called station (usually CQer) QSYs at least 6 kHz after a QSO

Final Score: Number of QSOs x Multipliers

Asia-Pacific countries for this contest:
(coutries from Asia side PacificRim to 180 degrees longitude): 3D2(all), 4W, 1S/9M0, 9M2, 9M6/8, 9V, BV, BV9, BY, BS, C2, DU, FK(all), FW, H4(all), HL, HS, JA, JD1/Ogasawara, JD1/Marcus, KH2, KH9, KH0, P29, T2, T30, T33, T8, UA0(not UA9) , V6, V7, V85, VK1-9(all except VK9X & VK9Y), VR, XU, XV/3W, XX9, YB, YJ, ZL(all except Chatham & Kermadec)

Results will be posted to:
CQ-CONTEST@contesting.com
contest-rules@ne.nal.go.jp
http://jsfc.org/apsprint/
CQ Ham Radio

Log Instruction:
ONLY ELECTRONIC LOGS SENT BY E_MAIL ARE ACCEPTED!
All entries must contain complete QSO information plus a summary indicating your claimed score and T-shirt size. Each QSO information must include band, date, time, callsign, sent nr and received nr. If any of those are not shown in the log, it will be checklog. The operator's callsign and name has to be indicated if the operator is different than of the owner of the station used or if the station used is not owned by an individual. Entries without a summary may be treated as a checklog. (The summary contained in the Cabrillo log satisfies this requirement)
Electronic logs in Cabrillo format are strongly recommended. In any case, the log & summary must be in ASCII format (no binary files nor non-English characters, please). The file name of the electronic log must be your callsign. (For example, 9V1YC.CBR for Cabrillo log) The electronic log file must be attached to the email.
The subject of the email must contain your callsign.

Email: apsprint@jsfc.org
Entry deadline:
7 days after end of contest
Cabrillo QSO template for AP Sprint

Further information on Cabrillo may be obtained from the following web page. http://www.kkn.net/~trey/cabrillo/