The Rules of the «VOJVODJANSKI OKTOBAR» vhf-uhf Contest


1) Organizer:
Savez Radioamatera Vojvodine
Trg mladenaca 10
21000 Novi Sad
Yugoslavia
e-mail: srv@EUnet.yu

2) Time:
First full weekend in October,
starting Saturday on 432Mhz at 14:00 to 20:00 GMT, on 144Mhz at 20:00 to 23:00 GMT.

3) Participation:
Licensed stations in the IARU 1st Region

4) Categories:
A) 144MHz Multi op.
B) 144MHz Singl op.
C) 432MHz Multi op.
D) 432Mhz Singl op.
E) 144 and 432MHz FM and Digimode
F) Outside YU station /any category/

5)Permitted modes : A,B,C and D Categori: CW,SSB and FM; in E Categori: FM and /FSK,PSK,WSJT,JT44,SSTV and others/

6)All stations must follow the IARU 1st Region Band Plan recommendations, legal terms and conditions stated in own country and license.

7) Exchange:
call sign, RS/T, serial number on every band
(incrementing for each QSO logged), WW QTH locator and QSO confirmation.

8)Same Call permitt, only ones contakt in category

9)Scoring: 1Km=1point + 1000point for each different QTH square(KN05..JN95.etc)

10)Contakts made via the any translators are consideres as invalid, this points cannot be claimed.

11) Logs:
Logs submitted must be kept for each band separately and must contain: Date, Time (GMT), Call sign of station worked, sent and received RS/T, sent and received serial numbers, WW QTH locator of station worked, QRB points, QTH points, and mode.

12) Summary Sheet : must be submitted separately for each entered category and must contain: contest name; contest date; category entered; participant call sign, address; QTH locator; call signs of all operators; claimed number of QSOs; claimed QRB points, claimed QTH points; claimed score; best DX (call sign, QTH, QRB); short station, antenna and location description and Statement of contest operation accordance with the Contest Rules. Logs must be in the mail within 15 days after the contest (date postmark), and must reach the organizer before 31st of October. Log mailing can be done on address stated above or on e-mail.To recommend EDI file

srv@eunet.yu

13) Ranking time:
Organizer is committed to check all received logs and form rankings for all categories by 31.st of November. Rankings will be distributed to radio amateur journals, national societies of all participants, winners by categories, and will be published on BBS of SRV by stated deadline.
http://www.srv-vcc.net

14) Awards:
First place in each categories will be awarded with a Certificate and a Trophy. For places 2 to 6 a Certificate will be awarded.

15) Awards will be presented on SRV Annual Conference.

16) Rankings:
Rules Manager David Aleksandar YU7JX aleksandar@yahoo.com determines rankings,term for complaint
is 8 day after the rankings,on organizer address.

17) Disqualification:
Station will be disqualified if there are more than 5% of errors in the submitted log. A QSO will be qualified as an error in following cases: unmarked dupe, QSO not appearing in the log of a correspondent, 10 minutes logging time difference, uncompleted QSO data, contradiction with the Contest Rules and Ham's spirit, operating outside of the Band plan.

18) Rules:
The right of interpreting the Contest Rules as well as accepting all comments on contest and rankings, decision of VHF/UHF Committiee is final.

SRV VHF/UHF Committiee.