The A.R.I. (Associazione
Radioamatori Italiani) is glad to invite all Members of I.A.R.U.
Region 1 Societies to take part in the
26th
Marconi Memorial Contest VHF
I.A.R.U. Region 1 Radiotelegraphy (CW)
November 6-7 1999 (14 :00 - 14 :00 UTC)
The contest has been organised
by A.R.I. to commemorate, as a Man and as a Scientist,
Guglielmo Marconi
Either the VHF Manager or the
Contest Manager are kindly requested to widely advertise through
their national magazine. The log must be checked by your national
VHF Manager. Then, they must be mailed to the NEW MMC CONTEST
MANAGER at the following address :
IW3RI CLAUDIO DESENIBUS -
C.P. 51 - 34078 SAGRADO (GO) ITALY
Starting 1999 we prefer an
electronic log. Please send your computer DISK, files .DBF .STD
etc. and summary sheet ; or send
all logs and summary sheets
at E-MAIL adress : iw3ri@meet.it
Deadline for forwarding the
entries : January 30 th , 2000
RULES
- Eligible entrants :
All licensed radio amateur in Region 1 can partecipate.
Multioperator entries will be accepted, provided only one
call sign is used. The contestants must operate within
the letter and the spirit of the contest and at no
greater power the permitted in the ordinary licence of
their country.
- Sections : A
station must operate from the same location throughout
the event.
- SINGLE OPERATOR Stations
operated from any location by a single operator, with no
assistance during the contest, using privately owened
equipment and antennas (no club station)
- MULTIOPERATOR All other
entrants. No more than one transmitter, or transmitting
device, may be in use at any time.
- Contacts : Each
station may be worked only once, whether it is fixed,
portable or mobile. Any duplicate contact must be marked
as such in the log without claim for points. Contacts
made via active repeaters, EME or MS, do not count for
points.
- Band and type
of emission : Contacts must be two-ways A1A (CW) on
144 Mhz band only according to IARU Reg. 1 band plan.
- Contest exchanges :
Contest exchanges consist of RST report followed by
serial number, starting with 001 for the first contact
and increasing by one for each successive contact, and
the complete WW locator of the sending station. Example
579 023 JN54rk.
- Scoring : one point
for kilometre. The final claimed score must be shown on
the top part of the first sheet.
- Logsheets : The
logsheets, A4 format, OR DISKS must show the following
columns in the order given : DATE, TIME (UTC), CALLSIGN
of the station worked, Exchange SENT, Exchange RECEVED,
LOCATOR, claimed POINTS. A standard cover sheet,
containing the essential information is request. The
first operator must certify the correctness of the log by
his signature.
- The logs and the address
should be computer printed or typewrited or at least
readable. Duplescheet is welcome. WE PREFER
AN ELECTRONIC LOG. PLEASE
SEND YOUR COMPUTER DISK (FILES .DBF .STD ETC.) AND
SUMMARY
SHEET AT THE
NATIONAL CONTEST MANAGER.
- Entries : A copy
of the log must be sent only the national VHF Manager or
Contest Manager, postmarked not later than the second
Monday following the contest weekend. Late entries
will not be accepted. The submission of the logs implies
that the entrant accepts all the IARU contest rules.
- Judging of entries : The
judging of entries is carried out by the MMC Contest
Commitee, whose decision shall be final. Entrants
deliberately contravening any of the rules of flagrantly
disregarding the IARU Region 1 band plans shall be
disqualified. Minor errors may result in loss of points.
Errors in the call sign and contest exchanges will
be penalised by deducting for both station the
following percentage of the score claimed for the
pertaining contact : 1 error 25%, 2 error 50%, 3 or more
errors 100%. A claimed contact will be disqualified for
an obviously wrong Locator or a time error of more
than 10 minutes. Claiming points for a duplicate contact
will be penalised by deducting from the total score ten
times the number of point claimed for the contact. The
entrant will not be penalised for the failure of
non-entrants to comply with the rules. The entrant
will be disqualified if the logs will show errors in
excess of 5% of total number of QSOs.
- Award : The 3
(three) top scores of each section will be winner of
Marconi Plate
offered by
A.R.I. Sezione di Bologna.
Bologna, May 1999
MMC
CONTEST COMMITTEE
I5 JRR, IW3RI, I4LCK