RUSSIAN WW RTTY CONTEST Rules

1. Contest sponsors

«Radio» Magazine and Russian Contest Club.

2. Contest dates, bands and modes

12:00 UTC 07 September till 11:59 UTC 08 September 2024

Bands — 80, 40, 20, 15 and 10 meters. No Contest QSOs on WARC bands.

We recommend using the following frequencies, Mhz :

3,582 — 3,590

7,042 — 7,050

14,072 — 14,110

21,072 — 21,110

28,072 — 28,120

 

Mode: RTTY-45

3. Entry categories

• Single-Op All Band High Power
• Single-Op All Band Low Power  (no more 100 W)
• Single-Op All Band QRP (no more 5 W)
• Single-Op Single Band (5 different band entries, separately 80, 40, 20, 15, 10 m)
• Multi-Ops All Band Single Transmitter
• SWL-Radio

The participant can operate and submit the log for two different single band categories to be eligible for awards, for instance, 10m and 80m as per 11.3.

There is a separate classification for each category for the European and Asian parts of Russia and foreign stations located outside Russia. For foreign stations, in addition to the Worldwide classification, there is also a classification by continent.

4. Club competition

The club score is the total aggregate score from logs submitted by club members. National organizations (e.g., JARL, REF or DARC) as well as their subsidiary divisions are not eligible for the club competition. For classification, it is necessary that there are at least 3 stations from the club. Separate classification for Russian and foreign clubs. The participant’s log must clearly indicate the full name of the club in the field CLUB: [text].

5. General rules

5.1. All transmitters, receivers, and amplifiers must be within a single 1000-meter diameter circle. Antennas must be physically connected by RF transmission lines to the transmitters and receivers.

5.1.1. Remote operation is permitted if the physical location of all transmitters, receivers, and antennas are at one station location. A remotely operated station must obey all station license, operator license, and category limitations. The call sign used must be one issued or permitted by the Regulatory Authority of the station location.

5.1.2. The use of publicly available potting assistance (DX clusters and others) is allowed for all entries.

5.1.3. The use of any calls other than participant’s for any reason including keeping the run frequency on any band, making schedules, DX-spotting, moving the multipliers is prohibited.

5.1.4. Self-spotting is permitted during the contest.

5.2. Single Operator participants may change bands and modes without restrictions.

5.2.1. Single Operator categories: one person (the operator) performs all operating, logging and spotting functions. Any other human or automated assistance will result in reclassification into the Multi Operator category or disqualification at the discretion of the contest committee.

5.2.2. Only one signal can be transmitted at any given time.

5.3. Multi Op, Single transmitter stations are subject to a 10 minutes band change rule.

5.3.1. Start time is determined by the time of the first QSO made on the band. The band may be changed after 10 full minutes have elapsed.

5.3.2. Only one signal can be transmitted at any given time. Exception: two signals on two different bands are allowed if (and only if) the station on another (and only one) “multiplier” band works a new multiplier.

5.3.3. The “multiplier” transmitter is subject to its own 10 minute rule for band changes as described in 5.3.1.

5.3.4. Contacts which violate band change rules, should be clearly marked in the log with an X-QSO: key (as per 11.11 ). They will neither be counted nor penalized for an entrant, but will be counted for the station contacted.

5.3.5. Tampering with the QSO time to comply with the 10 minute rule (“rubber clocking”) will result in disqualification.

6. Exchanges

6.1. Russian stations: RSQ + oblast code – a two-letter combination denoting an oblast (krai, republic) of Russia.

6.2. Non-Russian stations: RSQ + QSO number, starting with 001.

7. QSO Points

7.1. Russian stations:

• • QSO with your own country (Russia on your continent) – 2 points,
  • QSO with Russia on another continent – 5 points,
  • QSO with a different country on your continent – 3 points,
  • QSO with another continent – 5 points.

7.2. Non-Russian stations:

• • QSO with Russian station – 10 points,
  • QSO with your own country – 2 points,
  • QSO with a different country on your continent – 3 points,
  • QSO with another continent – 5 points.

7.3. Kaliningrad (UA2F), Franz Josef Land (RI1FJ*) and Russian Antarctic stations (RI1AN*) each count as a separate DXCC entity and a separate Oblast (double multiplier) with Kaliningrad counts as European Russia for scoring purposes.

7.4. Maritime mobile (“/MM”) stations do not count as multipliers and score 5 points for all participants.

7.5. SWL points are calculated along the same principles as described in 7.1 and 7.2.

8. Dupes

8.1 Dupes are contacts made with the same station on the same band and mode. If the first contact between stations is valid, dupes have 0 points value. If the first contact is not valid, then second (dupe) contact is accepted.

8.2 Dupe contacts are not penalized; they do not have to be marked in the log. All entrants are strongly recommended to leave DUPES in the log.

9. Multipliers

There are two types of multipliers:

• One multiplier for each different oblast contacted on each band, including UA2F, RI1FJ* and RI1AN* as per 7.3.
• One multiplier for each different country (DXCC entity list + WAE multipliers list) contacted on each band.

10. Final score

The final score is the result of the total QSO points multiplied by the sum of oblast and country multipliers.

11. General Log Submission Requirements

11.1. Logs are accepted in CABRILLO file format only.

11.2. Filename of your log should be yourcall.log or .cbr. Example: UA1AAA.log or UA1AAA.cbr.

11.3. If a competitor claims two separate bands in the SOSB category (as per 3.1 ) these two bands should be clearly marked. Example: CATEGORY-BAND: 10M, 15M.

11.4. Web upload is the prefer method of log submission. Web upload of logs is available at: https://ua9qcq.com/hf-logs.php.

11.6. All QSO times must be in UTC.

11.7. All sent and received exchanges must be clearly shown in the log.

11.8. The header of the electronic log must specify entry category and your full mailing address to receive the awards.

11.9. Please do not remove duplicate QSOs from the log.

11.10 Multi Op logs must identify which transmitter made each QSO. RUN =0, MULT =1. Alternative identification is not allowed. The logs without such identification will be reclassified to Check Log.

11.11. Logs aiming for the top 3 position in any contest category (excluding SWL entry) must indicate the frequency of every QSO made (using transceiver CAT) with a minimum resolution of 1 kHz.

11.12. Any QSO marked with the key X-QSO: will be ignored in your log and credit will be given to the other station.

12. Log Submission Deadline

12.1. Logs must be submitted to the contest sponsors within 14 days after the end of the contest (until 23:59 UTC on 22.09.2024). Logs aiming for the top 3 position in any contest category (excluding SWL) must submit log until 23:59 UTC 09th September, 2024.

12.2. Receipt of the log will be confirmed on the «Uploaded Logs» page on ua9qcq.com Website (https://ua9qcq.com/uploaded_logs_list.php).

12.3. Logs submitted after the deadline may be listed in the results, but are not eligible for awards.

12.4. There are very few paper logs coming in. The editorial board of the Radio magazine will continue to receive them, but in order not to delay the judging of the competition, only those that arrive at the editorial office by the beginning of the judging (about three weeks after the end of receiving electronic reports) will be counted. Therefore, please send paper logs IMMEDIATELY after the end of the contest to the address: 129090, Moscow, per. Protopopovsky, 25B, Editorial office of the Radio magazine.

13. Awards

13.1. Special plaques for world winners in the following categories:

— Single-Op All Band High Power;

— Single-Op All Band Low Power;

— Single-Op All Band QRP;

— Multi-Ops Single Transmitter;

13.2. Medals for:

• • 2nd and 3rd places winners in the above categories;
  • world winners in Single-Op Single Band categories.

13.3. The awarding in the subgroup is carried out subject to the participation of at least five radio stations.

13.4. Sponsors who wish to pay for plaques and souvenirs are welcome.

13.5. Certificates will be available for download for all participants who have sent logs.

14. Contest-Related Information

14.1.  Each participant who sent their electronic log will have access to their UBN with declared/confirmed results separately by bands/modes and a list of QSOs containing their errors and errors of spent stations.

14.2.  Any Russian WW RTTY Contest related questions should be sent to e-mail russrtty@gmail.com.

15. Judging

The Russian DX Contest Committee is responsible for checking and adjudicating the contest entries which is done electronically. Participants are requested to follow the rules and best amateur radio practices. Violation of the rules of the contest or unsportsmanlike conduct may lead to disciplinary action by the Committee in its sole discretion.

16. Penalties

Penalties are worth two times the QSO point value for the contact.

16.1. Penalty is appllied if:

• • incorrectly logged calls (Bad Call);
  • incorrectly logged exchange numbers;

16.2. QSO neither counted nor penalized for the following:

• • QSO time difference of more than 3 minutes (except for cases in which the judges determines error as fault of the correspondent);
  • QSO bands or modes difference (except for cases in which the judges determines error as fault of the correspondent);
  • 10 minute rule violation for Multi Op, Single transmitter (as per 5.3.1 and 5.3.3 above).

16.3. The log will be reclassified into Check Log in case of more than 75% score reduction after checking.

16.4. Russian WW RTTY Contest Committee decisions are final.

 

Russian WW RTTY Contest Committee invites all the radio amateurs from Russia and foreign countries to take part in Russian WW RTTY Contest — 2024.