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    RSGB HF Championship 2016

    The HF Championship is not a contest in its own right.  Rather, it requires participation in a number of HF events during the year, with the results considered together.  The winners will have shown a high level of operating and contesting skill in a variety of contests.
     
     
    1. Contests Ten Contests are included in the HF Championship, with all scores contributing to the result. No entry is necessary; a running score will be tabulated after each qualifying contest.
    2. Qualifying Points For each contest, an entrant's score in the table of the appropriate section (after eliminating non-UK entrants where these are allowed), is expressed as a fraction of winner's score, normalised to 1000, to calculate Qualifying Points (QP). So for example, if the winner scored 512 points in a section, an entrant scoring 384 points would receive 750 Qualifying Points. The maximum score an entrant can achieve, by achieving first place in ten qualifying contests, is 10000 Qualifying Points.
    3. Sections

    Contests and Sections included in the HF Championship are shown in the table below. In some of them, several entry classes may be combined as a single section for the purpose of calculating Qualifying Points.

    Some contests have several entries in the table, where the Qualifying Points are calculated for a section (or several sections) taken as a unit.  For example, in the Commonwealth Contest, there will be three entrants who achieve 1000 QPs: the leader of the Open Section (24 hour), the leader of the Restricted Section (24 hour), and the leader of the 12 hour Open and Restricted sections, combined for the purpose of calculating QPs.  

    4. Entrants

    Participation in the contributing contests is by single operators who must be RSGB members, operating in the UK&CD,  In this context, UK&CD is defined in the HF General Rules.

    Entrants need not operate from the same location for each contest.

    Entrants may use the callsign allocated to them on their Validation Document, with appropriate Secondary Locator or special prefix as allowed by particular contest rules, for example GM9XXX, G9XXX/P, GI9XXX, etc.  

    Entrants may use a valid Contest Call (SCC) issued by Ofcom where qualifying contest rules allow such usage. Use may also be made of a club callsign, but as a single operator. In these cases, the entrant must show the callsign of the operator to be credited for the HF Championship in the Cabrillo file submission, using the "OPERATORS:" field, for example:
    OPERATORS: G9ZZZ

    5. Results and Awards

    The winner of the HF Championship is the station with the highest number of Qualifying Points at the end of the year, and is awarded the G2QT Trophy.

    Second and third placed entrants will receive a certificate of merit.

    6. Organiser for the HF Championship
          -- Ed, GW3SQX
    Ed, GW3SQX
     
      CONTESTS & SECTIONS INCLUDED IN THE HF CHAMPIONSHIP
     
    CONTEST / SECTION MONTH MODE
     
      1.1 1st 1.8 MHz -- UK Assisted February CW
      1.2 1st 1.8 MHz -- UK Unassisted February CW
     
      2.1 Commonwealth -- open, 24 hour, assisted & unassisted combined March CW
      2.2
    Commonwealth -- restricted, 24 hour, assisted & unassisted combined March CW
      2.3 Commonwealth -- open & restricted combined, 12 hour, assisted & unassisted combined March CW
      2.4 Commonwealth -- QRP, assisted & unassisted combined March CW
     
      3 RoLo SSB April SSB
     
      4 International Sprint Contest – Spring CW April CW
     
      5 International Sprint Contest – Spring SSB April SSB
     
      6 International Sprint Contest – Autumn CW September CW
     
      7.1 International DX Contest, UK&CD – Open Assisted October Mixed
      7.2 International DX Contest, UK&CD – Open Unassisted October Mixed
      7.3 International DX Contest, UK&CD -- restricted & QRP combined October Mixed
     
      8
    RoLo CW October CW
     
      9 International Sprint Contest – Autumn SSB November SSB
     
     10.1 2nd 1.8MHz CW -- UK Assisted November CW
     10.2 2nd 1.8MHz CW -- UK Unassisted November CW