Certain of these rules are invoked for individual contests as listed in the individual contest rules.

S1. Instead of 1 point / km scoring (rule 5a), scores will be calculated at 1 point / QSO.

S2. In addition to the IARU locator, QTH information must be exchanged. This should be given as a point identifiable on an Ordnance Survey route planning map or equivalent (scale 1:625,000) or as a direction and distance not greater than 25 km from such a point, e.g. 10km West of Skegness.

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. Scores from portable stations will be included in the results but will not count towards team tables.

a. All members of the team must operate from within 50km 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 50km of that designated meeting place.

b. QSOs with other members of your team will count for points.

c. Multiple teams are encouraged from both local and national societies. 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. Please mark your RSGB Zone (which can be found in the Yearbook) on the cover sheet.

e. 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. This is a cumulative contest. The following special rules apply :-

a. For cumulative contests the overall score will normally be calculated from the best 3 normalised session scores - the normalised score being calculated as above in rule 5c. 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.

b. Stations may move location between individual cumulative activity periods.

c. For cumulative contests, please summarise your scores from each session on the reverse of the cover sheet.

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.

S8. This is an activity contest. The following special rules apply :-

a. These contests are timed to co-incide with the last two hours of a number of European 2m 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, 1.3/2.3 GHz on the 3rd Tuesday, and 50 MHz on the 4th Tuesday. There will be no such contest on any 5th Tuesday.

b. Please submit an entry after each session in which you are active. There are seperate sections for Single Operator Fixed Stations and All Others.

c. This contest is scored at 1 pt / QSO with a QTH locator multiplier (multiplier type M2) on 50 MHz and 144 MHz, and at 1 pt/km with a QTH locator multiplier (multiplier type M2) on 432 MHz and 1.3 / 2.3 GHz.

d. At the end of the year, on each band an overall score will be calculated from the best 6 normalised session scores - the normalised score being calculated as above in rule 5c. 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. 

e. Stations may move location between individual activity periods.

f. A trophy will be awarded to the winner of each section on each band.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.