IARU REGION 1 UHF/MICROWAVES OCTOBER CONTEST 1) Eligible entrants All licensed radio amateurs in Region 1 can take part in the contest. Multiple operator entries will be accepted but only one callsign must be used during the contest. The contestants must operate within the letter and spirit of the contest and at no greater power then permitted in the ordinary licenses of their country. Stations operating under special high power licenses do so "out of contest" and cannot be placed in the contest proper. 2) Contest sections From 432 MHz up to 10 GHz inclusive there will be two sections, as defined under point 2 of the rules of the September contest, and two sections for the combined group of amateur bands above 10 GHz, the so-called millimetre group. No more than one transmitter may be in use at any one time. A Participating station must operate from the same location through the event. 3) Contest date The contest will start on the first Saturday of October (06. October 2001) 4) Contest term The contest will commence at 1400 hours UTC on the Saturday and will end at 1400 hours UTC on the Sunday. 5) Contacts Each station can be worked only once on each band, whether it is fixed, portable or mobile. If a station is worked again during the same contest, only one contact will count for points, but any duplicate contacts should be logged without claim for points and clearly marked as duplicates. Contacts made via active repeaters do not count for points. Any telephony contacts made with stations transmitting in the Telegraphy subband shall not count for points. 6) Transmitting modes Contacts may be made in A1A, R3A, A3E or F3E(G3E). F2A may be used above 1 GHz 7) Contest exchanges Code numbers exchanged during each contact shall consist of the RS or RST report, followed by a serial number commencing with 001 for the first contact on each band and increasing by one for each successive contact on that band. This exchange must immediately be followed by the complete Locator of the sending station (examples : 59003 JO20DB or 579123 IN55CC). 8) Scoring For the amateurs bands till 10 GHz inclusive, points will be scored on the basis of one point per Kilometre, i.e. the calculated distance in km will be truncated to an integer value and 1 km will be added. In order to make contest scores comparable, for the conversion from degrees to kilometres a factor of 111,2 should be used when calculating distances with the aid of the spherical geometry equation. For the combined higher bands the score will be the sum of the points scored on each of the bands, using the following multiplication factors for the number of kilometres scored on each band: 24 GHz 1x 120 GHz 5x 47 GHz 2x 145 GHz 6x 75/80 GHz 3x 245 GHz 10x 9) Entries The entries must be set out on log sheets fulfilling the requirements given under rule 12. Multi operator stations shall be clearly marked as such. A copy of the logs must be sent to the national VHF Manager or the national Contest Committee postmarked not later than the second Monday following the contest weekend. Late entries will not be accepted. The submission of the logs implies that the entrant accepts the contest rules. 10) Entries check The final judging of the entries shall be the responsibility of the organising society, whose decision shall be final. Entrants deliberately contravening any of these rules or flagrantly disregarding the IARU Region 1 bandplans shall be disqualified ). The claimed contact will be disqualified for an obviously wrongly stated Locator or a time error of more than 10 minutes. Claiming points for a duplicate contact will be penalized by deducting ten times the number of points claimed for that duplicate contact from the score. Any error in the information logged by a station will result in the loss by the receiving station of all points for that contact. The contest entrants will not be penalized for the failure of non entrants to comply with the rules. 11) Awards Section winners Certificates will be issued by the organising Society to the winners in the two sections, on each band Overall winners For each section an overall winner of the IARU Region 1 UHF/Microwaves contest will be declared. For this category the scores of the entrants on the following bands will be combined, using an adaptive multiplier: 432 MHz 5,7 GHz 1,3 GHz 10 GHz 2,4 GHz millimetre group. The multipliers to be used for the determination of the overall scores in each sector are found as follows: the multiplier is equal to the ratio between the highest number of points scored by any participating station on the 432 MHz band and the highest number of points scored by any participating station on the band which the multiplier is being determined. For the millimetre group the score, as determined to rule 8 are used for determination of this group's multiplier. The entrants scoring highest in each section will be awarded the IARU REGION 1 CERTIFICATE as for September contest ===================================================================== Adresa za slanje YU dnevnika: yu0srj@eunet.yu sa naznakom: iaru uhf contest - call