Certain of these rules are invoked for individual contests as listed in the individual contest rules.
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.
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. 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. 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.
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.
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 in general 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.
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.
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.
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 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.
b. Please submit an entry after each session in which you
are active. There are separate 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, 70 MHz and 144 MHz, and at 1 pt/km
with a QTH locator multiplier (multiplier type M2) on 432 MHz and microwaves.
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 in general 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.
Entries to this contest can also count towards the 2m Club Championship which is intended to stimulate competition between affiliated societies throughout the year.
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.vhfcc.org/vhfcc.
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. A 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.