RSGB Contest Special Rules 2008
Certain of these rules are invoked for individual contests as listed in the individual contest rules.
Please refer to the rules for each contest for detailsLow Power Contest.
Maximum output Power 25W at the TX.
VHF CHAMPIONSHIP.
http://www.rsgbcc.org/vhf/rules/08rules/championship.htm
Backpacker.
http://www.rsgbcc.org/vhf/rules/08rules/BACKPACK.htm
VHFNFD.
http://www.rsgbcc.org/vhf/rules/08rules/VHFNFD.htm
S1.
Instead of 1 point / km scoring (rule 5a), scores will be calculated at 1 point / QSO.
S3.
This is an Affiliated Societies contest and is open to both individual entrants (who must be RSGB members), and to teams made up of a number of operators who must all be members of the same affiliated society, but not necessarily RSGB members themselves.
a. All members of the team must operate from within 50 miles of the normal meeting place of the society. No station may represent more than one society. No operator is allowed to use more than one callsign during the contest. In the case of national societies, each team must define a separate meeting place , and each team member must operate within 50 miles of that designated meeting place.
b. QSOs with other members of your team will count for points.
c. Each AFS member will be allocated to one or more teams in descending order of adjudicated score. For the purpose of calculating the overall AFS team score, each member of each team will be placed in one of 5 sections (3 for the 432MHz contest) Sections A, B, C etc. The highest placed member of each team will be placed in Section A, the second highest in Section B etc. All stations in each of the sections will have their score normalised against the highest score in that section, with the highest score gaining 1000 points. The final AFS team score will be the sum of the team members individual normalised scores.
d. Logs should be sent as a single package for each club and should include a declaration by a club official that all operators are members of the Affiliated Society, and listing the QTH locator of the normal meeting place of the club.
S4.
This contest runs concurrently with a backpackers contest. Stations entering the backpackers contest only may be worked once from a fixed location and once from their portable location for points.
S5.
Scores will be normalised for each band/session as follows.
Score for each band/session = (Score achieved x 1000) divded by (Band/session leader score).
For cumulative contests the overall score will normally be calculated from the best 3 normalised session scores
It is impossible for you to determine your best sessions without knowing everyone else's scores, so please submit your logs and scores from all sessions in which you were active and allow the adjudicator to calculate your best sessions.
Stations may move location between individual cumulative activity periods
S6.
This contest runs concurrently with the first few hours of an RSGB 24 hour event. You may submit entries to both contests with a single set of logs, but please include 2 cover sheets - one for the shorter contest and one for the 24 hour event. Entries may be automatically submitted into the 24 hour event unless you specifically request otherwise
S7.
This contest runs concurrently with all or part of an IARU co-ordinated contest. You may submit a single set of logs for entry to both the RSGB and IARU events. Entries will be submitted to the IARU event unless you specifically request otherwise but please note that electronic logs not in REG1TEST EDI format may be rejected by the IARU adjudicators.
For IARU organised VHF/UHF contests, overseas stations are expected to enter via their own IARU society and the RSGB will not accept overseas entries for these contests.
S8.
These contests are timed to co-incide with the last two hours of a number of European activity contests, with an extra half hour at the end to encourage intra UK activity. They take place on Tuesdays from 2000-2230 local time with 144 MHz on the 1st Tuesday of the month, 432 MHz on the 2nd Tuesday, 1.3 GHz / 2.3 GHz on the 3rd Tuesday, 50 MHz on the 4th Tuesday, and 70 MHz where there is a 5th Tuesday in the month.
Please submit an entry after each session in which you are active. In order to speed adjudication entries will only be accepted by e-mail or web entry and must be sent within 10 days of the contest.
Scores will be normalised for each session as follows.
Score for each session = (Score achieved x 1000) divded by (Session leaders score).
At the end of the year, on each band an overall score will be calculated from the best 8 normalised session scores.
It is impossible for you to determine your best sessions without knowing everyone else's scores, so please submit your logs and scores from all sessions in which you were active and allow the adjudicator to calculate your best sessions.
Stations may move location between individual activity periods.
Certificates will be awarded to the overall winners and runners-up in each section and on each band in the same way as per the general rules. No certificates will be awarded for the individual events.
S9.
a. The individual entries by a club's members to the 2m UK activity contests which take place on 2m from 2000-2230 LOCAL time on the 1st Tuesday in every month all count towards a society's overall score for the year. The 2m UKACs are short contests with a straightforward scoring scheme which are simple enough for beginners and have high activity to keep more experienced contesters interested. To maximise the club score, it's important for the club contest organiser to get as many members to come on for as many sessions as possible. A rolling club listing will be maintained on the VHFCC web site www.rsgbcc.org
b. Stations enter the 2m UKAC contest in the normal way, but need to include an AFS (affiliated society) name in the cover sheet of their entry. Entries to all sections of the UKAC count towards the overall club score which is the simple sum of the scores of each team member operating that month.
c. To determine the winner at the end of the year, the leading club each month will be awarded 1000 points, and all other club scores for that month will be normalised by the formula
Normalised score for each session = (Total club score x 1000)/ (Leading club score)
d. The G6NB Trophy will be awarded to the club with the highest score at the end of the year. All 12 sessions will count towards the total club score.