HF CW CONTEST CALENDAR by LZ1GL

Hungarian DX Contest MRASZ

Organizer: MTTOSZ Radioclub Gyor on behalf of the Hungarian Radioamateur Society

Goals: to promote the traditionally good friendship between the radioamateurs, to strengthen the reputation of Hungarian radioamateurs, to provide an opportunity to test their skills and technical level as well as a possibility to obtain Hungarian radioamateur awards.

Date and time: The 3rd full weekend of January, between Saturday 12:00 GMT to Sunday 12:00 GMT

Participants: any licensed radioamateur station or SWL.

Frequencies: 1,8 - 28 MHz (no WARC bands). The recommendations for IARU Region 1. Bandplan have to be obeyed.

Modes: CW and SSB

Entries:
SOAB - Single Op All Bands - separately MIXED, CW, SSB
SOSB - Single Op Single Band separately MIXED, CW, SSB
MS - Multi Ops All Bands Single TX (MIXED only)
MM - Multi Ops All Bands Multi TX (MIXED only)
SWL (All Bands, Mixed only)

Contacts: Any station can be contacted during the contest. Every station can be contacted once per band and mode.

Exchange: RS(T) + QSO number starting with 001. MM stations shall use separate serials per band starting with 001. Stations operating from HA- RS(T) give two letters county code.

Hungarian county abbreviations:

DistrictCountyAbbreviation
HA1ZalaZA
HA1 Gyor GY
HA1 Vas VA
HA2 Komarom KO
HA2 Veszprem VE
HA3 Somogy SO
HA3 Tolna TO
HA3 Baranya BA
HA4 Fejer FE
HA5 Budapest BP
HA6 Nograd NG
HA6 Heves HE
HA7 Pest PE
HA7 Szolnok SZ
HA8 Bekes BE
HA8 Csongrad CS
HA8 Bacs-Kiskun BN
HA9 Borsod BO
HA0 Szabolcs SA
HA0 Hajdu-Bihar HB

Points:

QSO with own DXCC country: 1 point
Another country on same continent: 1 point
Other continent: 3 points
Contacts with Hungarian stations: 6 points

Multipliers: Hungarian counties per band.

Total score: Sum of QSO points multiplied by sum of multipliers.

Logs: Only Cabrillo format via e-mail to: hadx@enternet.hu or (floppy, CD) via mail to: MTTOSZ Gyor Varosi Radioklub, 9002 Gyor, P.O.Box 79, Hungary

Paper log only for check.

Deadline of log submission is 30 days after the contest (based on email timestamp or postal stamp)

The subject of the emails should include the contest, the callsign and the category, e.g. HADX W9USC MS

FREE Contest Software: Download HA1AH Home Page or Gyor Varosi Radioklub Home Page.

Awards:

The top 3 entrants of each class will be awarded certificates. The winners of the SO categories will become honorary members of the Hungarian DX Club.

Remarks:

- No logged duplicate QSO will result penalty if no points are claimed for them.

- The maximum allowed time difference between QSOs in two logs is 3 minutes. If it can be unambiguously determined which station logged the times incorrectly, only the points claimed by that station will be deducted.

- Packet is allowed for everybody. Self-spotting is prohibited.

- The highest maximum allowed power for any classes during the contest is 1 kW.

- Only one signal may be transmitted at any times by anyone. Stations braking this rule will be disqualified.

- Only those multipliers will be accepted, which either have submitted logs or are reported in at least two other logs.

- Band and mode changes are allowed only after 5 minutes after the first QSO on that band and mode. The 5 minutes period starts at the first contact logged in that band and mode.

- The decision of the contest committee is final.

The contest committee maintains the right to appoint observers for the contest. The observers document and report suspected cheating to the Contest Committee. Based on the evidence provided the Committee has the right to disqualify participants. The callsigns of stations and those of their operators disqualified for proven cheating will published to the international contesting community and they loose their right to participate in the contest for 5 years.

Contest Manager
Hungarian DX Contest MRASZ

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