[NLRS] [LONG] (New) March uWave Contest

[Baker, Donn B]

The San Bernardino Microwave Society is sponsoring a new contest.  The
announcement made some of the reflectors late last week, but some of you may
not have seen it.

It appears to be modeled after the 10GHz & Up contest, although this one is
2 GHz and up.  Date is 3rd weekend in March (15-16 Mar 2003); any 24 hours
of the 36 hours from 6AM (local) Saturday to midnight Sunday.  It is a CLUB
competition ONLY... no individual entries.  A club is two or more operators.
There are different sizes of clubs.  There are multipliers for TX power
level, per band.  Basic score is distance and unique calls.

The rules are below.  (I did a little editing, especially in the Scoring
Example area.  I don't think I changed the meanings, etc.)

I think this might be a good thing to participate in... assuming, of course
we don't have umpteen feet of snow; we're not in the middle of an Alberta
Clipper; or its 37 degrees below frozen!  We could enter as NLRS, or we
could form a couple (or more) "clubs" from the microwave group, or....

Comments ?

73 Donn
WA2VOI/0

2003  2GHZ AND UP WORLD WIDE CLUB CONTEST
SPONSORED BY THE SAN BERNARDINO MICROWAVE SOCIETY  (S.B.M.S.)

1. Object: 
Worldwide amateurs work as many amateur stations in as many different
locations as possible in the world on bands from 2-GHz through Light.

2. Date and Contest Period: 
Third full weekend of March. The dates are March 15-16, 2003 Operations may
take place for 24 hours total on the contest weekend. The weekend begins at
6AM local Saturday though 12 midnight local Sunday. Listening times count as
operating time. Times off must be clearly indicated in the log.

3. Entry Categories: CLUBS
3.1 Clubs will be divided into 3 catagories by amount of active members
3.1 Small = 2-10 / Medium = 11-50 / Large = 51 and more

4. Exchange: 
Six-character Maidenhead Locator (see April 1994 QST, p 86 or
www.arrl/org/locate/gridinfo.html).
4.1 Signal report is optional.

5. Miscellaneous:
5.1 Scheduling contacts is both permissible and encouraged.

5.2 Stations are encouraged to operate from more than a single location. For
purposes of the contest, a change of location is defined as a move of at
least 16 km (10 miles). A station may be reworked on each band for
additional credit by either end of the contact moving to a new location.

5.3 Contacts may not be duplicated on the second day (that is at least one
end of the QSO must be from a different location).

5.4 Contacts must be made over a minimum distance of 1 km.

5.5 A transmitter used to contact one or more stations may not be used
subsequently under any other call during the contest period. The intent of
this rule is to prohibit "manufactured" contacts.

6. Scoring:
6.1 Distance points: The distance in km between stations for each
successfully completed QSO is calculated. Distance = distance in km.

6.2 In making the distance calculations, a string (or ruler) and map may be
used. However, calculations by computer program are preferred. Several such
programs are available in the commercial market, including a BASIC program
listing in 
The ARRL World Grid Locator Atlas. For purposes of making calculations,
stations are defined as being located in the center of the 6-character
locator sub-square (most computer programs make this assumption).

6.3 There are multipliers. QRP= 3 / MEDIUM= 2 / UNLIMITED= 1
6.3.1 QRP 0-500mW / MEDIUM 501mW - 5W / UNLIMITED 5W and UP

6.3.2 You must decide what power level you are going to run on each band and
stay with that on that band You can have a different power level for each
band, but can only use the multiplier for that bands QSO points.

6.4 QSO points: 
Count 100 QSO points for each unique call sign worked per band. Portable
indicators added to a call sign are not considered as making the call sign
unique.

(6.5) Points
Distance X Mulitpler = Points.  Add all QSO and unique points for Total.  
Add all Club Member individual totals for Club Competition Score.
ALL SCORES ARE SUBMITTED TO THE SBMS AS A CLUB TOTAL; NO INDIVIDUAL SCORES
FOR THIS COMPETITION


(6.5.1) (Individual) Scoring Example:
                                   DX MULT POINTS
N6CA works N6XQ 2GHZ  20W   10KM   10  1    10
N6CA works N6XQ 3GHZ  4.9W  10KM   10  2    20
N6CA works N6XQ 5GHZ  5W    10KM   10  2    20
N6CA works N6XQ 10GHZ 250mW 10KM   10  3    30
N6XQ UNIQUE CALL                           100
                                           ---
                                 Total     180

(6.5.2) (Club Scoring Example)
Club: So. Cal. N6-ers
N6CA      180
N6XQ      180
          ---
   Total  360

(6.6) SUBMITT LOGS:
PAT COKER N6RMJ 
N6RMJ@DIRECWAY.COM OR MAIL (Good in any Call Book since 1988.)