RSGB Affiliated Societies Team Contests 2010

This popular club event has something foreveryone. What better way to start contesting than in AFS? You can contribute by just participating and gathering points for your team and Club. Enjoy the local rivalry, it's great fun! You don't need to have a high or complex 
antenna either, a simple low dipole works well.

The general rules apply to this contest

Dates:
CW Event: Sunday 10th January 2010
SSB Event: Saturday 16th January 2010

Time: 1400 - 1800UTC.

Frequencies:
CW: 3510 - 3590kHz.
SSB: 3600 - 3750kHz

Exchange: RST plus serial number

1. Eligible Entrants:
(a) Each entering club must be affiliated to the RSGB.
(b) Each operator of a team station must be a member of the club they represent. The operator is not required to be a member of RSGB.
(c) All stations representing a club must be located within a radius of 50 miles of the normal meeting-place of the club. Where a club has ( branches, eg RNARS, it may define separate );branch meeting-places, and the team(s) entered by each branch will be considered to be entirely separate from those entered by other branches, except in respect of affiliation.
(d) Each station may be single or multioperator, but no station or operator may represent more than one affiliated club or branch.

2. Teams:
Teams comprise of up to four stations for both the CW and SSB sections. A club may enter as many teams as they wish. Which stations make up each team is determined by the club entering the event.

3. Contacts:
In the CW section, the section around 3580kHz is reserved for slower-speed contacts. It is intended that operators less experienced in CW and contest techniques should be able to make contacts here in a more relaxed environment. Experienced contesters operating around this frequency are required to keep their speed down.

4. Scoring: 10 points per contact including overseas.

5. Entries:
Online entries must be submitted to http://www.rsgbcc.org/cgi-bin/hfenter.pl by 23:59:59 on 26th January for the CW event and 1st February for the SSB event. One log entry for each club should include a declaration in the soapbox that all operators are members of the Affiliated Society, and give the location of the normal meeting place of the club.  In cases where more than four members represent a club, the soapbox much also state which operators represent team A, which team B, etc.

Individual entries may alternatively be submitted via the QSO entry web page http://www.rsgbcc.org/cgi-bin/hfcover.pl

Example of AFS CW Contest log.

Example of AFS SSB Contest log.

Further information regarding the Cabrillo Format

6. Awards:

CW:-
The Edgware Trophy to the leading team.
The Marconi Trophy to the leading single-operator individual station.

SSB:-
The Flight Refuelling ARS Trophy to the leading team.
The RSGB Lichfield Trophy to the leading single-operator individual station.

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