EA-QRP Club invite all the radioamateurs of the world to take part in our contest.
OBJECT: To promote the contacts using low power on QRP.
DATE: 3th Weekend of April (15-16th April).
CONTEST PERIODS: The contest will be divided into 4 parts.
1st Part - From 17:00 to 20:00 UTC the 1st day on 10, 15 and 20 metre bands.
2nd Part - From 20:00 to 23:00 UTC the 1st day on 80 metre band.
3rd Part - From 07:00 to 11:00 UTC the 2nd day on 40 metre band.
4th Part - From 11:00 to 13:00 UTC the 2nd day on 10, 15 and 20 metre bands.
FREQUENCIES: 10, 15, 20, 40 and 80 metres. We recomend you use all recognised QRP frequencies
(or close to them): 10 meters (28.060 Mhz), 15 meters (21.060 Mhz), 20 meters (14.060 Mhz),
40 meters (7.030 Mhz) and 80 meters (3.560 Mhz).
CALL: "TEST EAQRP". The QRPp stations must indicate /QRPp after their call signs. The rest
of the stations will not include /QRP in their call sign.
EXCHANGE: RST + One letter (A or B) + M (Only EA-QRP Club members).
A - QRPp (< 1 watt) B - QRP
MAXIMUM OUTPUT POWER ALLOWED: The maximum power must be below 5 watts.
CATEGORIES: Only single-operator.
- QRP - 5 watts maximum output power.
- QRPp - 1 watt maximum output power.
- International QRP station.
QSO POINTS: 1 point to contact the same country (EA, EA6, EA8 and EA9
will also only count as 1 point), 2 points with the same continent and 4 points with a
different continent. QRPp will count 5 points.
A station can only work another once per band and per day.
MULTIPLIERS: Members of the EA QRP Club and DXCC countries on each band. EA6, EA8 and EA9
will count as the same multiplier (EA).
TOTAL SCORE: Total sum of QSO points multiplied by sum of total multipliers.
PENALTIES: Any wrong contact will be deleted and they will count as zero.
A contestant can be disqualified if we can prove that they are using more power than is allowed.
DX Cluster is allowed, but self-spotting is prohibited.
Contacts will not be valid if they are not in two or more logs.
LOGS: All logs must enclosed the following details:
- UTC
- Call sign, indicating if they talk with a QRPp station.
- Exchange, 599 + A or B + M (EA QRP members only)
- Band
In the summary sheet you need to include a contest claimed score and a
description of the station used during the contest (RX, TX or RTX,
antenna/s, output power used, accesories,...). Contestants must send a
declaration of their power output and declare they followed the contest
rules.
All comentaries and stories during the competition will be welcome to the EA QRP bulletin.
Instead of the paper list you can send an ASCII file (The summary sheet must be in a separate file).
Deadline of log submission is 30 days after the contest (Based on email timestamp or postal stamp) to:
Vocalia de concursos (Concurso CW), Po Box 48021, E-28043, Madrid, Spain.
Via email to ea1bp@yahoo.es
PRIZES and TROPHIES:
- Winner in category QRP (Trophy).
- Winner in QRPp category (Trophy).
- Winner in Foreign category (Trophy).
- Subscription for a year to the EA QRP Bulletin to the first Spanish spoken contestant (Restricted licence) in QRP Category.
Competitors who win a prize can not win a prize a consecutive year.
Note: To take part in this competition means to follow these rules.
