{"id":192,"date":"2009-07-01T13:15:44","date_gmt":"2009-07-01T13:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.raai.gr\/?joomla_id=192"},"modified":"2009-07-01T13:15:44","modified_gmt":"2009-07-01T13:15:44","slug":"aegean-vhf-contest-09","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raai.gr\/?p=192","title":{"rendered":"AEGEAN VHF CONTEST 2009 POLICIES & RULES"},"content":{"rendered":"
I.Participation<\/div>\n
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All Greek and Cyprian radio amateurs can participate in this contest.<\/div>\n
Only one participation for every callsign is allowed,in one or more of the 3 bands.<\/div>\n
The contesters must develop activities in the contest folowed by AEGEAN VHF CONTEST 2008 POLICIES.<\/div>\n
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Contesters Categories<\/div>\n
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1. One operator over one band using one or all modes from every location.<\/div>\n
2. One operator over all bands using one or all modes from every location.<\/div>\n
3. Many operators over one band using one or all modes from every location.<\/div>\n
4. Many operators over all bands using one or all modes from every location.<\/div>\n
Radio amateurs are free to use any equipment. There are no limitations.<\/div>\n
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II.Date And Frequencies of the contest<\/div>\n
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AEGEAN VHF CONTEST 2009 starts at 00:00z on 4th of July 2009 and ends at 23:59z on 5th of July 2009<\/div>\n
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Frequencies:<\/div>\n
1) 50-52 MHz<\/div>\n
2) 144-146 MHZ<\/div>\n
3) 432-434 MHz<\/div>\n
And the respective subzones as stated by IARU.<\/div>\n
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III.Contacts<\/div>\n
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Every station can be confirmed only once even if it is portable or mobile.<\/div>\n
Only one contact for every mode and band is allowed.<\/div>\n
It is not allowed to use repeaters for contacts or for contact information exchange that did not complete succesfully in a previous QSO.<\/div>\n
Any voice cross mode QSO’s over the CW subzone are not valid for this contest.<\/div>\n
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IV.Transmission Types<\/div>\n
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Transmissions can be done in the following modes:<\/div>\n
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– For 2m band and 70cm,in CW,SSB,FM and all digital modes. (RTTY.FSK441,JT65A,B,C,M ETC.)<\/div>\n
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– For 6m band,in CW,SSB and all digital modes. (RTTY.FSK441,JT65A,B,C,M,J56M ETC.)<\/div>\n
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V.Contest Exchanges<\/div>\n
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The contesters must exchange RS or RST report for every contact followed by a unique number.This number starts with 001 for the first contact and<\/div>\n
increases by one for each subsequent contact.This infomation exchange must be followed by the full QRA locator of the trasmitting station.<\/div>\n
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VI.Points<\/div>\n
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The point calculation is done automatically via a special software available from the 5-9 report website<\/div>\n
http:\/\/www.5-9report.gr\/aegean.htm<\/div>\n
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VII. Results<\/div>\n
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A copy of the logfile must be sent via email to the contest manager no later than 14th of July 2009 and 00:00z clock.<\/div>\n
You can send the logfile in Excel,Word or even handwritten format.<\/div>\n
Logfiles sent after 14th of July 2009 will not be accepted. Submitting the logbook implies that the contester accepts all the rules of the contest.<\/div>\n
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VIII.Results Judgement<\/div>\n
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The results judgement is the sole responsibility of the organizing committee whose decision is final.<\/div>\n
Contesters that will break intentionally any of the rules or do not comply to the Greek band plan will be disqualified.<\/div>\n
Wrong callsigns or contest numbers will remove from both stations the following percentage from the final result of that contact.<\/div>\n
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1 mistake = 25%<\/div>\n
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2 mistakes = 50%<\/div>\n
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3 or more mistakes = 100%<\/div>\n
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A contact will be invalid from an obviously mistaken locator or a time difference of more than 10 minutes.Having double contact<\/div>\n
will inflict ten times the number of points loss for that contact from the final result.<\/div>\n
Contesters will not be punished for the failure of non contesters to comply with the rules.<\/div>\n
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IX.Awards<\/div>\n
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They will be given awards to the 1st,2nd and 3rd place of each category.<\/div>\n
There will also be commemorative awards to all those who submit logs.\u00a0<\/div>\n
The awars and commemorative awards will be presented from AEGEAN DX Group.<\/div>\n
We accept and sponsored awards from radio amateur clubs,groups or teams with the right for them to place the name and the logoon the award.<\/div>\n
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I.Participation All Greek and Cyprian radio amateurs can participate in this contest. Only one participation for every callsign is allowed,in one or more of the 3 bands. The contesters must develop activities in the contest folowed by AEGEAN VHF CONTEST 2008 POLICIES.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-joomla-cat-38-news-eri","category-joomla-section-6-eri"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raai.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raai.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raai.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raai.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raai.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raai.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raai.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raai.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raai.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}