Name: Name: LoTW Contest Contest Periods: PHONE: 0000 UTC Saturday 6 October 2007 to 2359 UTC Saturday 6 October 2007
CW / RTTY/Digital: 0000 UTC Saturday 13 October 2007 to 2359 UTC Saturday 13 October 2007 PHONE, CW, and RTTY/Digital portions of the contest are considered separate contests and must be submitted separately. All operators may use spotting networks, either RF or internet, as long as the use of the spotting network is open to the general public. Categories: Single Operator CW Single Operator RTTY/Digital Single Operator SSB Band: AB -- All Band (no WARC 12M,17M, or 30M) band QSOs allowed) S160 -- Single band-160M S80 -- Single band-80M S40 -- Single band-40M S20 -- Single band-20M S15 -- Single band-15M S10 -- Single band-10M Power: HP -- Greater than 200 watts LP -- 200 watts or less for the whole contest QRP - less than 5 watts for the whole contest Exchange: All participants use RS(T) and State/Province/DXCC Country. If you are also a participant of another contest, you can additionally send other formatted reports, but for this contest that extra information does not need to be logged. NOTE: If it is determined that an operator is not in the state sent in the report, his entry will be disqualified. Points: QSOs with country, 2 points. QSOs with other countries on same continent, 5 points. Contacts with other continents, 10 points. Maritime mobile contacts count 5 points. There is no lmultiplier value for a maritime mobile contact. All scoring will be automated and assessed when the LoTW QSL log is evaluated. Multipliers: Each continental U.S. State (48), USA District of Columbia (DC), Canadian area (13), and DX country. KL7 and KH6 are considered DX and not states for this contest. DX countries are DXCC plus WAE (IT, GM Shetland Islands, et al). Canadian areas include VO1, VO2, NB, NS, PEI, VE2, VE3, VE4, VE5, VE6, VE7, NWT, and Yukon. Do not count States and Canada as separate countries. For DX stataions, send signal report and DXCC prefix for your country. Example for OM2AK in Slovak Republic, the DXCC is "OM", therefore on CW, he would send "599 OM". Note multipliers (countries, provinces, and states) will be automatically determined by the sponsors log-checking software. Same multipliers as CQWW160M Contest. Score: Total Points X Total Multipliers Logs: Contest logs in either Cabrillo Format or ADIF format should be uploaded to LotW any time after the contest, but no later than 30 days after the contest. No hand-written logs or any other format will be accepted. Use the following contest names on the "CONTEST:" line of the Cabrillo log file: "LOTW-SSB" or "LOTW-CW" or "LOTW-RTTY". If an adi/adif file is used to upload logs to the ARRL site, then there is no need to include the name of the contest. Elgible Operator: Non-LoTW member stations may operate, but must join LoTW as soon as possible (no later than 30 days after the contest) after the contest to be included and have your LoTW QSLs count for the other members and to be included in the results listings. Submittals: Your contest submittal is your LoTW QSL download report for the contest period, renamed from LOTWREPORT.ADI to "Example: "Callsign_Category_Band_Power.ADI") and should be downloaded no sooner than 30 days after the contest and no later than 45 days after the contest. Your downloaded QSL report is your contest entry and should be uploaded to http://www.lotwcontest.com anytime between 30 days and 45 days after the contest. To complete your entry, you will fill out an online entry form, on which you will enter, Your Callsign, Mode operated, Class (All or which singe-band), Highest power used, State/Province/Country operated from, and filename of uploaded ADI file, To make this fair to all entries, our log checking software will only count QSLs that are awarded within the 30 days immediately following the contest period. Name your lotwreport.adi file as: "Callsign_Category_Band_Power.ADI". Examples: N5RR_CW_AB_HP.ADI or N5RR_PHONE_S160_LP.ADI. Contest loggers use existing setup for Oceania DX Contest and disregard score for the LoTW log. Scoring for the LoTW Contests will be automatically generated by the sponsor once your log is submitted. There will not be any penalty for duplicates since our log checking software will automatically zero out the duplicate contacts on the same band. Busted calls will not be a factor, since there will not be a match and no LoTW QSL will be generated. Same goes for non-LoTW participants which can make QSOs, but their logs would have no way to get submitted into LoTW, hence no QSL generated. Awards: Certificates for High World, High State, High Province, and High Country in each power class. Second and Third place will be awarded as participation requires. All stations making more than 500 QSOs will receive a participation certificate. Plaques: We are still looking for sponsors for the Plaques. If there are enough sponsors, there will also be Plaques for the Low Power classes. ALL-BAND AWARDS High World-CW-- "the DXLabs Trophy", donated by: Dave Bernstein, AA6YQ High World-PHONE-- donated by: Jerry Keller, K3BZ High World-CW-QRP-- donated by: High World-PHONE-QRP-- donated by: High World-RTTY/Digital -- donated by: Bill Heinzinger, Jr, W9OL High USA-CW -- donated by: Bill Beggs, N5RR High USA-PHONE -- donated by: High USA-CW-QRP -- donated by: High USA-PHONE-QRP -- donated by: High Canada-CW -- donated by: High Canada-PHONE -- donated by: Entries will only be elgible for one Plaque award, if World High is won by a Canadian or US operator, then the World High Plaque would go to that operator and the USA High in the same category would go to the second place US operator. Contest Periods: PHONE: 0000 UTC Saturday 6 October 2007 to 2359 UTC Saturday 6 October 2007 CW / RTTY/Digital: 0000 UTC Saturday 13 October 2007 to 2359 UTC Saturday 13 October 2007 PHONE, CW, and RTTY/Digital portions of the contest are considered separate contests and must be submitted separately. All operators may use spotting networks, either RF or internet, as long as the use of the spotting network is open to the general public. Categories: Single Operator CW Single Operator RTTY/Digital Single Operator SSB Band: AB -- All Band (no WARC 12M,17M, or 30M) band QSOs allowed) S160 -- Single band-160M S80 -- Single band-80M S40 -- Single band-40M S20 -- Single band-20M S15 -- Single band-15M S10 -- Single band-10M Power: HP -- Greater than 200 watts LP -- 200 watts or less for the whole contest QRP - less than 5 watts for the whole contest Exchange: All participants use RS(T) and State/Province/DXCC Country. If you are also a participant of another contest, you can additionally send other formatted reports, but for this contest that extra information does not need to be logged. NOTE: If it is determined that an operator is not in the state sent in the report, his entry will be disqualified. Points: QSOs with country, 2 points. QSOs with other countries on same continent, 5 points. Contacts with other continents, 10 points. Maritime mobile contacts count 5 points. There is no lmultiplier value for a maritime mobile contact. All scoring will be automated and assessed when the LoTW QSL log is evaluated. Multipliers: Each continental U.S. State (48), USA District of Columbia (DC), Canadian area (13), and DX country. KL7 and KH6 are considered DX and not states for this contest. DX countries are DXCC plus WAE (IT, GM Shetland Islands, et al). Canadian areas include VO1, VO2, NB, NS, PEI, VE2, VE3, VE4, VE5, VE6, VE7, NWT, and Yukon. Do not count States and Canada as separate countries. For DX stataions, send signal report and DXCC prefix for your country. Example for OM2AK in Slovak Republic, the DXCC is "OM", therefore on CW, he would send "599 OM". Note multipliers (countries, provinces, and states) will be automatically determined by the sponsors log-checking software. Same multipliers as CQWW160M Contest. Score: Total Points X Total Multipliers Logs: Contest logs in either Cabrillo Format or ADIF format should be uploaded to LotW any time after the contest, but no later than 30 days after the contest. No hand-written logs or any other format will be accepted. Use the following contest names on the "CONTEST:" line of the Cabrillo log file: "LOTW-SSB" or "LOTW-CW" or "LOTW-RTTY". If an adi/adif file is used to upload logs to the ARRL site, then there is no need to include the name of the contest. Elgible Operator: Non-LoTW member stations may operate, but must join LoTW as soon as possible (no later than 30 days after the contest) after the contest to be included and have your LoTW QSLs count for the other members and to be included in the results listings. Submittals: Your contest submittal is your LoTW QSL download report for the contest period, renamed from LOTWREPORT.ADI to "Example: "Callsign_Category_Band_Power.ADI") and should be downloaded no sooner than 30 days after the contest and no later than 45 days after the contest. Your downloaded QSL report is your contest entry and should be uploaded to http://www.lotwcontest.com anytime between 30 days and 45 days after the contest. To complete your entry, you will fill out an online entry form, on which you will enter, Your Callsign, Mode operated, Class (All or which singe-band), Highest power used, State/Province/Country operated from, and filename of uploaded ADI file, To make this fair to all entries, our log checking software will only count QSLs that are awarded within the 30 days immediately following the contest period. Name your lotwreport.adi file as: "Callsign_Category_Band_Power.ADI". Examples: N5RR_CW_AB_HP.ADI or N5RR_PHONE_S160_LP.ADI. Contest loggers use existing setup for Oceania DX Contest and disregard score for the LoTW log. Scoring for the LoTW Contests will be automatically generated by the sponsor once your log is submitted. There will not be any penalty for duplicates since our log checking software will automatically zero out the duplicate contacts on the same band. Busted calls will not be a factor, since there will not be a match and no LoTW QSL will be generated. Same goes for non-LoTW participants which can make QSOs, but their logs would have no way to get submitted into LoTW, hence no QSL generated. Awards: Certificates for High World, High State, High Province, and High Country in each power class. Second and Third place will be awarded as participation requires. All stations making more than 500 QSOs will receive a participation certificate. Plaques: We are still looking for sponsors for the Plaques. If there are enough sponsors, there will also be Plaques for the Low Power classes. ALL-BAND AWARDS High World-CW-- "the DXLabs Trophy", donated by: Dave Bernstein, AA6YQ High World-PHONE-- donated by: Jerry Keller, K3BZ High World-CW-QRP-- donated by: High World-PHONE-QRP-- donated by: High World-RTTY/Digital -- donated by: Bill Heinzinger, Jr, W9OL High USA-CW -- donated by: Bill Beggs, N5RR High USA-PHONE -- donated by: High USA-CW-QRP -- donated by: High USA-PHONE-QRP -- donated by: High Canada-CW -- donated by: High Canada-PHONE -- donated by: Entries will only be elgible for one Plaque award, if World High is won by a Canadian or US operator, then the World High Plaque would go to that operator and the USA High in the same category would go to the second place US operator. -- Andy K3UK www.obriensweb.com (QSL via N2RJ)
