CZE – BRI – S 2010

Three-day activity of the Czech, British and Slovak QRPák February 2010Tieto 3 dni QRP activities of Slovak, Czech and British radio amateurs, organized by G-QRP-Klub especially for OM, OK and G stations. The competition is intended to encourage enthusiasm for radio amateur activity with small power as well as cooperation and friendship between radio amateurs from Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Britain. QRPs from other countries are usually added to these days of activity to support low power operation. Max. TX power is 5W. In addition to Slovak members of G-QRP-C, every OM radio amateur who is able and willing to work with low power is welcome in this race. After all, it is not a problem to reduce the power on a more powerful device down to 5W, to take the output from the exciter, or at the end of the week to take a soldering iron and make a single or multi-watt TX for this short competition as well as other races that also have a QRP category. Excellent connections can be made even with low power.

OM stations that take part in the race and send in a diary for evaluation will also receive a small commemorative participation prize in the form of a £2 Marconi commemorative coin for their efforts.

Nadväzujeme spojenia so všetkými QRP stanicami. Volajte CQ QRP or CQ CZEBRIS. Connections with other QRP stations, not only OM, OK, G and M, are also valid until the race. Also expect that they will call you QRO stanice. Tieto spojenia sa síce do súťaže nerátajú, ale potešia QRO stanice ktoré si vysoko považujú úsilie a zručnosť QRP staníc.

SCORING	QSO with stations in:
Stations in:	G	OM/OK	EU	DX
G/GD/GI etc.	2	4	2	3
OK and OM	4	2	2	3
EU stations	4	4	1	2
DX	4	4	2	1

Začiatok : 16.00 GMT v piatok 26.februára End: 23.59 GMT on Sunday 28 February Druh prevádzky: Telegrafia (CW) Max. výkon : 5W

Connections are made around the usual QRP frequencies of 3560, 7030, 14060, 21060 and 28060 kHz, sometimes plus/minus 10-15 kHz, depending on how many participants gather there. There are no multipliers in this race. The final result is the sum of points from all bands. The following contest code will be broadcast: RST / meno / výkon napr. 579 ALEX 3W.

Since there are quite a few of us participating and we are chasing bands, I suggest that we operate the following mutual search mode. In addition to normal operation, every hour 00-10 min., 20-30 and 40-50 min. let's call CQ QRP on every part of the 050-060 kHz bands. On 7MHz 7025-035 kHz. This is because digital traffic starts on this band from 7035-higher and there is strong interference from them. Call also on higher bands, even if it seems that the band is dead, because it often happens that everyone just listens. You just have to tap it and it's done. HI. This way we will all know that in these time intervals who will be in the zone will be CQing and it will be easier to find each other. Let's try how it goes.

Diaries: From each band separately plus a list of results, to be sent by the end of April. G and other stations on G3XJS, OM and OK stations on OK1AIJ, Karel Běhounek, ul. On chances no. 1181, 537 05 CHRUDIM 4, Czech Republic. You can use the form for the diary and the results sheet from our international race "Spring Sprint" (Radio Club OM3KFV, PO Box No. 3, 038 61 Vrútky). You can also send the diary to Karol by e-mail at: karel.line@seznam.cz. Send me a copy of the diary by regular mail, (A.Korda, ul. Horná kručná no. 31 (23) , 038 61 Vrútky) or by e-mail to the address alexanderkorda@hotmail.com so I can send you the participation prize.

This Anglo-Czecho-Slovak competition started 25 years ago at the initiative of Petr OK1CZ, when dozens of QRPák participated. Since then, our activity has slowly declined and now it's time to breathe some new enthusiasm and life into it. I hope that Slovak QRPers, but also QRO rich people who want to try something different for a change, will fire up their 5W PA transistors and thus contribute to this interesting QRP meeting with GOKOM on the bands... But it requires patience and endurance. I wish everyone success in the race, joy and pride in the results achieved.

Alex OM6SA