[EIDXA] Possible Club Contest

[Steve Miller]

Greetings!

This weekend is part one of the ARRL International DX Contest, the cw 
weekend.   Beginning at 0000Z ( 6PM Friday night local time) and ending 
Sunday evening at 2400Z (6PM Sunday evening),  the idea of the contest 
is to work as many dx stations in as many dx countries as you can during 
the contest period.

Exchange:  You SEND:   RST & Your State       You RECEIVE:    RST & dx 
station's power

There are several entry categories:   Single Operator (Unassisted - no 
packet cluster) at one of three levels:  QRP,  Low Power, or High 
power.    Single Operator (Assisted - w/cluster)  at one of the three 
levels: QRP, Low power, or High power.   Multioperator -  in three 
categories:  Single transmitter,  Two transmitters, or multi-transmitters

The final score is the number of qso points times the multipliers.    
Entry submissions must be cabrillo format (which most of the contest 
logging programs have) and must be submitted by emailed by 2359Z March 
17, 2008 to DXCW at arrl.org <mailto:DXCW at arrl.org>  .   {Please remember 
to mark that your score counts for the Eastern Iowa DX Association 
combined scores and to send club secretary George your final score.
This is it in a nutshell -  full rules are available online at:  
http://www.arrl.org/contests/rules/2008/intldx.html

Even if you're not a big contester, please make a hundred or two 
contacts to help out the club score.
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Clubs Awards Program:

Certificates will be issued for the following levels:

EIDXA SCORE HELPER -  125 contacts in at least 25 countries  (note: you 
can work the same country on different bands and it counts as a separate 
country for each band worked so 25 countries should be a breeze).

EIDXA  EXTRA EFFORT -   250 contacts in at least 60 countries

EIDXA RUNNING  BULL -  500 contacts in  100 countries

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TROPHIES WILL BE AWARD:

EIDXA TROPHY CLUB AWARD      -   1000 contacts in  120 countries

EIDXA JACK THE RIPPER AWARD -  Top  Score  in  the contest
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Software -  If you don't already have software, your best bet is to 
purchase the contest software from N3FJP.. right away!!  It's dirt 
cheap....something like $6 and it is easy to use and quite good.  It is 
also easy to load and to set up.  website:  n3fjp.com    The contests 
are listed along the left side of the screen.

I'll try to offer a few contest suggestions tomorrow.      Steve N0SM

P.S.  Please be sure to work the PJ2T guys.  They include W0NB and N0YY 
from our club!!!