| Name: |
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LoTW Contest |
| Contest
Periods: |
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PHONE: 0000 UTC Saturday 6
October 2007 to 2359 UTC Saturday 6 October
2007
CW / RTTY/Digital: 0000 UTC Saturday 13 October
2007 to 2359 UTC Saturday 13 October 2007
PHONE, CW, and RTTY/Digital portions of the contest
are considered separate contests and must be
submitted separately.
All operators may use spotting networks, either RF or
internet, as long as the use of the spotting network
is open to the general public. |
| Categories: |
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Single Operator CW
Single Operator RTTY/Digital
Single Operator SSB |
| Band: |
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AB -- All Band (no WARC 12M,17M, or 30M)
band QSOs allowed)
S160 -- Single band-160M
S80 -- Single band-80M
S40 -- Single band-40M
S20 -- Single band-20M
S15 -- Single band-15M
S10 -- Single band-10M |
| Power: |
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HP -- Greater than 200 watts
LP -- 200 watts or less for the whole contest
QRP - 5 watts or less for the whole contest |
| Exchange: |
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All participants use RS(T) and
State/Province/DXCC Country. If you are also a
participant of another contest, you can additionally
send other formatted reports, but for this contest
that extra information does not need to be logged.
NOTE: If it is determined that an operator is not in
the state sent in the report, his entry will be
disqualified. |
| Points: |
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QSOs
with country, 2 points. QSOs with other countries on
same continent, 5 points. Contacts with other
continents, 10 points. Maritime mobile contacts count
5 points. There is no lmultiplier value for a
maritime mobile contact.
All scoring will be automated and assessed when the
LoTW QSL log is evaluated.
Single band operators may also work other bands when
their bands are dead or looking for LotW QSOs for
awards. You entry will be based on the class you
elect when your log adif file is submitted. |
| Multipliers: |
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Each
continental U.S. State (48), USA District of Columbia
(DC), Canadian area (13), and DX country. KL7 and KH6
are considered DX and not states for this contest. DX
countries are DXCC plus WAE (IT, GM Shetland Islands,
et al). Canadian areas include VO1, VO2, NB, NS, PEI,
VE2, VE3, VE4, VE5, VE6, VE7, NWT, and Yukon. Do not
count States and Canada as separate countries. For DX
stataions, send signal report and DXCC prefix for
your country. Example for OM2AK in Slovak Republic,
the DXCC is "OM", therefore on CW, he would
send "599 OM". Note multipliers (countries,
provinces, and states) will be automatically
determined by the sponsors log-checking software.
Same multipliers as CQWW160M Contest, counted once
per band QSO. If you work KL7 on 40, 20, and 15
meters would be three multiplers). For single band
entries, multipliers are only counted once on that
band. |
| Score: |
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Total Points X Total Multipliers |
| Logs: |
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Contest logs in either Cabrillo Format
or ADIF format should be uploaded to LotW any time
after the contest, but no later than 30 days after
the contest. No hand-written logs or any other
format will be accepted. Use the following contest names on the
"CONTEST:" line of the Cabrillo log file:
"LOTW-SSB" or "LOTW-CW" or
"LOTW-RTTY". If an adi/adif file is used to
upload logs to the ARRL site, then there is no need
to include the name of the contest. |
| Elgible
Operator: |
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Non-LoTW member stations may operate,
but must join LoTW as soon as possible (no
later than 30 days after the contest) after the
contest to be included and have your LoTW QSLs count
for the other members and to be included in the
results listings. |
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Submittals: |
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Your contest submittal is your LoTW QSL
download report for the contest period, renamed from LOTWREPORT.ADI
to "Example: "Callsign_Category_Band_Power.ADI")
and should be downloaded no sooner than 30 days after
the contest and no later than 45 days after the
contest. Your downloaded QSL report is your
contest entry and should be uploaded to http://www.lotwcontest.com anytime
between 30 days and 45 days after the contest. To
complete your entry, you will fill out an online
entry form, on which you will enter, Your Callsign,
Mode operated, Class (All or which singe-band),
Highest power used, State/Province/Country operated
from, and filename of uploaded ADI file, To
make this fair to all entries, our log checking
software will only count QSLs that are awarded within
the 30 days immediately following the contest period.
Name your lotwreport.adi file as: "Callsign_Category_Band_Power.ADI".
Examples: N5RR_CW_AB_HP.ADI
or N5RR_PHONE_S160_LP.ADI.
Contest
loggers use existing setup for Oceania DX Contest and
disregard score for the LoTW log. Scoring for the
LoTW Contests will be automatically generated by the
sponsor once your log is submitted.
There
will not be any penalty for duplicates since our log
checking software will automatically zero out the
duplicate contacts on the same band.
Busted
calls will not be a factor, since there will not be a
match and no LoTW QSL will be generated. Same goes
for non-LoTW participants which can make QSOs, but
their logs would have no way to get submitted into
LoTW, hence no QSL generated.
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| Awards: |
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Certificates for High World, High State,
High Province, and High Country in each power
class. Second and Third place will be awarded
as participation requires. All stations making
more than 500 QSOs will receive a participation
certificate. |
| Plaques: |
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We are still looking for sponsors for
the Plaques. If there are enough sponsors, there will
also be Plaques for the Low Power classes.
ALL-BAND AWARDS
High World-CW-- "the DXLabs Trophy",
donated by: Dave Bernstein, AA6YQ
High World-PHONE-- donated by: Jerry Keller,
K3BZ
High World-CW-QRP-- donated by:
High World-PHONE-QRP-- donated by:
High World-RTTY/Digital -- donated by: Bill
Heinzinger, Jr, W9OL
High USA-CW -- donated by: Bill Beggs, N5RR
High USA-PHONE -- donated by:
High USA-CW-QRP -- donated by:
High USA-PHONE-QRP -- donated by:
High Canada-CW -- donated by:
High Canada-PHONE -- donated by: Entries will
only be elgible for one Plaque award, if World High
is won by a Canadian or US operator, then the World
High Plaque would go to that operator and the USA
High in the same category would go to the second
place US operator.
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