Aim: The Marconi Memorial contest HF commemorates the II Century of Radio and its father: Guglielmo Marconi. It’s a World-Wide competition: everybody can work everybody, only CW.

Date and Time: Every First weekend of July from 14.00 UTC Saturday until 13.59 UTC Sunday.
In 2016 it will be held on July, Saturday 2 and Sunday 3.

Official Website: http://www.arifano.it

Mode: Only CW

Call: CQ MMC (Marconi Memorial Contest)

CATEGORIES:
SOHP - Single Operator / High Power
SOLP - Single Operator / Low Power (Max 100 watt)
SOQRP - Single Operator / QRP (Max 5 watt)
MO - Multi Operator ***

*** ONLY Multi Operator stations are limited by 10 minutes rule. They must remain on a band for at least 10 minutes before changing band. The “10 minute clock” starts when a QSO is logged. Multi Operator Station is to be considered only High Power. Multi Operator station must operate with ONE tx only, prohibited simultaneous emission.

Bands and Mode: Only CW, 10 m thru 160 m (except WARC bands) are allowed according to IARU Band Plans.

Exchange: The stations send RST + a serial number from 001.

Points/QSO, each QSO counts:
- 1 Point per QSO with same country;
- 3 Points per QSO with different country same continent;
- 5 Points per QSO with different continent.

Multipliers: All CQWW countries count 1 multiplier. The same multipliers can be counted once for band.

Final Score: The sum of Points/QSO from all bands multiplied by the sum of multipliers from all bands.

The use of the DX-Cluster system (packet cluster, web cluster) is allowed, for all categories of participants. No self spots !

Log Instructions:
- The CABRILLO file format is the standard for logs;
- Files must be named: YOURCALL.LOG or YOURCALL.CBR
- Files should be sent as normal attachment to: contest.marconi@arifano.it (or mmc.hf.cw@gmail.com)
- The entries must be submitted within 14 days of the end of the contest.
For each log received notification of receipt will be sent.
Rankings and Awards (NEWS to celebrate the 20th edition):

- SOHP (Single Operator/High Power)
The top five will be awarded by a certificate sent to snail mail address;

- SOLP (Single Operator/Low Power)
The top five will be awarded by a certificate sent to snail mail address;

- SOQRP (Single Operator/QRP)
The top five will be awarded by a certificate sent to snail mail address;

- MO (ulti Operator)
The top five will be awarded by a certificate sent to snail mail address;

As usual all participants will be awarded by an online certificate, PDF printable.
Penalties and disqualifications: will be applied at the discrection of Contest Committee in case of violation of the contest rules or bad ham spirit. Each decision of the Contest Committee will be final. Excessive unverifiable QSOs will be deemed sufficient cause for disqualification. All logs will be checked by a powerful custom software. Will be removed with no additional penalty contacts with call sign errors, contacts with an incorrectly received exchange, Not In log QSO (NIL), contacts that do not meet the band change rules for multi-operator entries.
Other: http://www.arifano.it will be constantly updated with all news. Any request to ik6bak@gmail.com
The latest version of N1MM, TR4W, QARTest, Win-Test, 5MContest, SD by EI5DI, UcxLog, AAtest, support the contest.
"Live Contest Score Server" available http://cqcontest.net/ (Thanks to the Team R4W)

ARI Fano President
IW6CDA Storaci Marco
marconi@arifano.it