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Contest calendar and hamfests

• Contest: North American Sprint - CW

Begins: 2016-09-11 00:00:00 UTC

Ends: 2016-09-11 03:59:59 UTC

1. Eligibility: Any Amateur Radio li-censee may enter.

2. Object: For North American stations to contact as many radio amateurs as pos-sible. For non-North American stations to contact as many North American stations as possible.

3. Entry Classification: High Power (up to 1500 W), Low Power (up to 100 W) and QRP (up to 5 W). Single-Operator only. Use of spotting information obtained directly or indirectly from any source other than the station operator, such as from other stations or automated tools, is prohibited.

4. Contest Periods: February/March ContestsCW: 0000 until 0400 UTC, February 7, 2016RTTY: 0000 until 0400 UTC, March 13, 2016 September ContestsCW: 0000 until 0359 UTC, Septem-ber 11, 2016RTTY: 0000 until 0359 UTC, Sep-tember 18, 2016These four contests are entirely separate 4-hour Sprints.

5. Mode: CW only in CW Sprints, RTTY only in RTTY Sprints.

6. Bands: 80, 40 and 20 meters only. Suggested frequencies are around 3540, 7040 and 14,040 kHz on CW, and 3580, 7080 and 14,080 kHz on RTTY. You may work the same station once per band.

7. Exchange: To have a valid exchange, you must send all of the following informa-tion: The other station’s call sign, your call sign, your serial number, your name, and your location (state, province, or country). You may send this information in any order. For example: N6TR DE K7GM 154 RICK NC K K7GM NR 122 TREE OR DE N6TR K

8. Valid Contact: A valid contact con-sists of a complete, correctly copied and logged two-way exchange between a North American station and another station. Proper logging requires including the time of each contact. Serial numbers must begin with serial number one and be sequential thereafter.

9. North American Station: Defined by the rules of the CQ WW DX contests. Note that KH6 is not in North America.

10. Scoring: Multiply total valid contacts by the sum of the US states, Canadian multipliers (see below), and other North American countries to get final score (do not count US and Canada as countries). The District of Columbia counts as Maryland. KH6 does not count as a state and is not a North American country, but it does count for contact credit. The eight Cana-dian multipliers are Maritime (VE1, VE9, VO1, VO2, and VY2); Quebec (VE2, VA2), Ontario (VE3, VA3); Manitoba (VE4, VA4); Saskatchewan (VE5, VA5); Alberta (VE6, VA6); and British Columbia (VE7, VA7), and Yukon-Northern Territories (VY1, VYØ, and VE8). Non-North American countries do not count as multipliers but do count for contact credit for North American stations.

11. Special QSY Rule: If any station solicits a call (eg, by sending “CQ,” “QRZ?” “going up 5 kHz” or any other means of soliciting a response, including completion of a contact where the frequency was inherited), that station is permitted to work only one station in response to that solicitation. The station must thereafter move at least 1 kHz before calling another station, or at least 5 kHz before soliciting other calls. Once a station is required to QSY, that sta-tion is not allowed to make another contact on the vacated frequency until or unless at least one subsequent contact is made on a new frequency.

12. Additional Rules: Simultaneous transmission on more than one frequency is prohibited. All contacts must be sent and received using means that require real-time human intervention, detection and initiation. Each operator must use only one call sign during the contest.

13. Log Formatting: All logs must be submitted electronically (web upload, e-mail, CD, etc). The file format for electronic logs for NCJ-sponsored contests is Cabrillo (ver 2.x or 3.x). Entrants who do not use computer logging are encouraged to use the manual Web-to-Cabrillo online forms available at the links below to enter their contact data from their paper logs.

14. Log Submission: Entries must be received no later than 7 days after the Sprint. Methods of log submission in order of preference are:a. Upload Cabrillo-formatted log (all modes) via web form (preferred): www.ncjweb.com/sprintlogsubmitb. E-mail log (ASCII text file): CW: cwsprint@ncjweb.com RTTY: rttysprint@ncjweb.comc. Mail a CD containing ASCII log file, to the appropriate address listed below.d. Manually convert paper log to Ca-brillo log using one of the following tools: CW: www.b4h.net/cabforms/nasprintcw_cab.php RTTY: www.b4h.net/cabforms/nasprintrtty_cab.phpe. Mail log to the appropriate address below: CW logs: Boring Amateur Radio Club, 15125 Bartell Rd, Boring, OR 97009 USA; e-mail: cwsprintmgr@ncjweb.com

15. Team Competition: Team competi-tion is limited to a maximum of 10 operators as a single entry unit. Groups having more than 10 team members may submit more than one team entry. To qualify as a team entry, the team registration form on the NCJ website must be completed before the contest starts: CW team registration: http://ncjweb.com/cwsprintteamreg/ RTTY team registration: http://ncjweb.com/rttysprintteam-reg/

16. Penalties and Dis-qualification: Contacts with incorrect received information will be removed. Contacts not found in the other station’s log will be removed with a one-contact penalty. Entries with score reductions in excess of 5 percent may be disqualified. Any entry also may be dis-qualified for illegibility, illegal or unethical operation.ModeTimes/DatesLogs DueLog SubmittalCW0000-0400 UTC, Feb 7February 14NCJ Web site:www.ncjweb.com/sprintlogsubmit.phpAlternative submission methods:See Rule 14 in text.0000-0400 UTC, Sep 11September 18RTTY0000-0400 UTC, Mar 13March 200000-0400 UTC, Sep 18September 25Figure 1 — The 2016Sprint calendar



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