Midwintercontest rules

The Veron Traffic Buro organizes this HF-contest every year in the second full weekend of January, which is January 9 and 10 in 2010. The contest time is as following:

Saturday   9 January - CW   14.00-18.00 UTC

Sunday    10 January - SSB  10.00-14.00UTC

Bands: 80, 40, 20, 15, and 10-meterband (no cross band). To make your calls in SSB pse use the following frequency segments: 3.600-3.650, 7.080-7.090, 14.270-14.300, 21.270-21.300, 28.470-28.500 MHz. This is useful so you will sooner meet other contest stations instead of scanning the entire contest-segment for YL's.  Only single stations and single operators can participate in this contest. There are 5 categories in which you can participate: YL SSB, YL CW, OM SSB, OM CW, SWL.

Procedure:

In SSB YL's call 'CQ midwintercontest', and OM's call 'CQ YL's'. In CW pse use 'CQ OMS' or 'CQ YLS',  to avoid any mixups with OM and YL countries.

Exchange:

Call, RS(T) and sequence number. OM's start with 001 and YL's start with 2001. Both SSB and CW part should start with 001/2001.

Points:

Every QSO with a YL=5 points

Every QSO with an OM=3 points

Qso with PI4YLC counts for 15 points, the club station will be active on both days on several bands. A station can be worked once on every  band. For example: PA3YLC may be worked on Saturday in CW on 80, 40 and 20 meterband and on Sunday in SSB on 80, 20, 15 and 10 meter band. For the CW part this will count for 3x5=15 QSO points and for the SSB part 4x5=20 QSO points.

Multiplier:

Every worked DXCC-country counts as multiplier (that is the total number of countries on all bands for CW or SSB, not per band). For example: If you work I, DL and F on 20 meter band and DL, OH and G on 15 meter band, that would make 5 multipliers (not six).

Total score: points of all bands together times multipliers.

SWL's:

Every heard YL counts for 5 points, PI4YLC counts for 15 points, multipliers as above. The log should also contain the qso partner.

Log:

For CW and SSB seperate logs and seperate points! The log should also contain : time, band, date and  yl or om.

Logs that are not filled in right, unclear or unreadable can be ignored by the manager and if so do not compete as contestlog.  In every category, places 1,2 and 3 will be rewarded with a certificate. If there are less then 10 participants in the category only number 1 will receive a certificate!

Logs should be send before 15 february 2010 (date postmark), preferably by eMail or to the following post address:

PA3GQG - Contestmanager Midwintercontest   

Keulenheide 1

6373 AP Landgraaf – The Netherlands                                  

eMail:  jckoekkoek99@home.nl(remove99!)