[Fists] 2002 Coast-to-Coast announcement

[Casey]

Hi All,

I have just posted the rules and award details for this year's
Coast-to-Coast (C2C):

http://tomochka.com/k7fff/fnw_c2c02.html

The date and time has been set for: Friday and Saturday, September 20 - 21,
2000-1600 UTC.

Note that there are some new twists to the rules, including new bonus points
and point counting for club operators. The plain text copy of the rules is
below. The number of clubs and their identities are still TBD. Any FISTS
club members reading this, please let me know of your intentions with regard
to participating this year.

vy 73,

Casey Bahr, KS7J  FISTS nr 3648, CC nr 450, CC/m nr 006
Trustee for FISTS Northwest, K7FFF, FISTS nr 4400, CC nr 457
http://www.tomochka.com/k7fff

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2002 C2C Rules:

Mode: CW Only.
Contest dates --- Starts Friday September 20th at 2000 UTC, ends Saturday,
the 21st at 1600 UTC (1:00 PM Friday to 9:00 AM Saturday, PDT).
Clubs will operate to their own schedules. They are not required to be on
the air the entire 20 hours of the event.

Bands: 80, 40, 20, 15, and 10 meters. We encourage Clubs to use the Novice
segments also. No WARC bands. Clubs will call near regular FISTS
frequencies.

New this year! You receive one award certificate credit for each club worked
and you receive one bonus point for each additional QSO with a club on a
different band (only one point per club per band). See the C2C Award details
below for how these points count!

Only FISTS clubs will call. Clubs will call --- "CQ C2C"

Exchange --- Clubs and operators exchange the following elements:
FISTS Members and Clubs:RST, Name, State (or 2 character prefix if DX), and
FISTS number. Clubs: Send only your club's FISTS number.

U.S. Example: 579, Stan, VA, 2934
DX Example: 599, Ralph, ZL, 1073

Non-FISTS: RST, Name, State, and Power (be sure to suffix with 'W').

U.S. Example: 459, Bill, OR, 50W
DX Example: 569, Yuri, UA, 100W

Club operators, please note this new rule: Club operators count any exchange
with another club to your club and personal QSO count, including bonus
multiple band points. For example, if you are operating your club call and
are called by another club, both club operators count the QSO for both their
club and their home calls without using their home calls in the QSO. This
rule is intended to reward our club volunteer ops without the need for
confusing "double-call QSOs" or separate QSOs while you are on duty.

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QSLs and Awards

All participating Clubs will handle their own logging and QSLs. Applicants
are NOT required to submit QSLs or logs to claim a C2C Certificate. Please
QSL to Club contacted only (NOT to the contest organizers or FISTS HQ)!

All contacts with Clubs will count toward regular FISTS awards (FISTS clubs
are worth 3 points each), as applicable. In addition, special Coast-to-Coast
certificates will be awarded to all participants who work the following
number of clubs (NOTE: log submittal is NOT required):

A minimum of 5 Clubs ---- Bronze Certificate
For contact of 10 Clubs ---- Silver Certificate
For contact of 15 Clubs ---- Gold Certificate
For contact of 20 Clubs ---- Platinum Certificate

New Award Opportunity: Receive a special total points endorsement on your
certificate for working the C2C clubs on different bands! You receive one
point for each club every time you work it, once per band.

Example: you worked 9 clubs just once on any bands, but also worked K7FFF on
80, 40, 20, 15, and 10 meters. You achieved the Silver Certificate (for
having worked 10 clubs total) plus 4 extra points for the additional K7FFF
QSOs on the other 4 bands for a total point count of 10 + 4 = 14.

Note that your certificate level is determined by the total number of clubs
contacted, not the total points attained.

The highest ten point scores will earn those entrants a PVP (potentially
valuable prize, to be determined later) awarded by FISTS Northwest, K7FFF!
Point totals will be reported in the Keynote for informational purposes only
after the event

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