These terms apply to Classic QRP race in 2010.
Classic QRP race on VHF is always held first full weekend in August, Sunday from 07.00 UTC to 13.00 UTC in the band 144 MHz.
You will read in the article
Competition categories:
144 MHz SO
144 MHz MO
SO (Single Operator) – a station manned by an individual without any outside help during the race.
Help from others during the race is understood as any help in operating the transmitting or receiving equipment, directing the antennas, keeping a diary and overview of the stations that were worked with, or in operating the device for accessing the packet radio network or the Internet.
MO (Multi Operator) – other stations.
Types of operation:
CW and phones according to the permit conditions, while it is necessary to follow the recommendations 1st region IARU for individual types of operation in frequency sections of amateur radio bands.
All station equipment must be placed on a surface with a maximum diameter 500 meters. The position of the station may not change during the race.
- Usage DX Clusteru and similar services is not limited.
- At one time, each station is allowed to broadcast only one signal (signals needed to connect to the packet radio network are not taken into account).
- Several stations can broadcast from one station - it depends on their mutual agreement.
- The power of the final stage of the transmitter or the sum of the powers of the final stages may be maximum 10 watts.
- Connections EME, cross-band and through land or space transporters into the race they do not count.
- It is not allowed using a remote receiver or transmitter.
- Each station can only be counted one valid connection, in which both stations transmitted and confirmed the complete contest code.
- Repeated connections must be marked in the log (e.g. RPT, DUPE, etc.) with a point value 0.
Contest code:
It consists of RS or RST, serial number of the connection a WW locator. The serial number of the connection must start with a number 001.
The complete code, including the sequence number from 001, is also transmitted by non-competing stations that do not want to be evaluated. Three zeros 000 are not a valid sequence number and such a connection will be marked as invalid.
Stations that do not wish to be rated need not send a log.
For 2010 it is possible to start numbering from any number, so that the highest number submitted during the race was less than 1000.
Scoring:
For everyone kilometer distance between both stations is calculated 1 point.
The connection point value must be given as an integer.
For connection in the same WW locator is calculated 1 point.
A coefficient is used to calculate the distance 111.2 (IARU recommendation) for converting degrees to kilometers taking into account the curvature of the Earth.
Coordinate system: WGS-84 (World Geodetic System 1984).
Connections with non-competing stations are also valid, but they must transmit the entire competition code, including the sequence number.
Competition diary:
Can be sent in in electronic form or how paper diary.
- The electronic diary must be in the format EDI (REG1TEST) – standard format for evaluating races within the 1st IARU region.
Diaries in other formats will not be accepted and the station will not be evaluated. - A legible photocopy of the station diary will suffice as a paper diary.
- The log must be submitted no later than the tenth day after the end of the race.
Invalid connection:
The connection is invalid if the station has in the log:
- any error in the received code (mark, report, connection serial number or locator),
- connection time difference greater than 10 minutes against the correct UTC time.
The station will not be evaluated:
- for non-compliance with competition or permit conditions,
- for more than 10% of incorrectly calculated distances (not applicable in 2010),
- for false or erroneous data in the diary,
- for unsportsmanlike behavior during the race.
Log submission:
- electronically: QRP@seznam.cz
- by mail: Miroslav Bečev, Neustupného 1831, 155 00 Prague 5