Αυτήν την Κυριακή τρέχω μαζί με τον γιό μου SV7RAV το 8th EPC BPSK63 QSO Party 2013

Καλό Σαββατοκύριακο σε όλους. Μετά από αρκετές μέρες που είχα τρελή δουλειά στο QRL αποφάσισα κυρίος για εκπαιδευτικούς λόγους να τρέξω αυτήν την Κυριακή το 8th EPC BPSK63 QSO Party 2013. παρακάτω δίνονται μερικές πληροφορίες για τον διαγωνισμό αυτό. Θα είμαστε στον αέρα με το χαρακτηριστικό SV7BVM- EPC #12666 μαζί με τον 14χρονο γιό μου Δημήτρη, που πήρε μόλις πριν λίγους μήνες το πτυχίο του και το χαρακτηριστικό του. Καλή επιτυχία σε όσους συμμετάσχουν.

8th EPC BPSK63 QSO Party 2013

Date and Time Starting time is at 00:00 UTC, and ending time is at 24:00 UTC on Sunday 17 November, 2013.

Objective

The European PSK Club has the honour to invite the radio amateurs all over the world to participate in the EPC PSK63 QSO Party. The objective of the competition is to establish as many contacts as possible between radio amateurs around the world by using the BPSK63 mode. Everybody can work everybody for QSO and multiplier credit. MixW statistics files by R3BB for PSK63 QSO Party: http://www.digitalrus.ru/Files/StatsEUEPC.zip  (last update 30.10.2012) 

BANDS AND FREQUENCIES

Recommended frequencies are: 160 meters (1.838 – 1.843 MHz), 80 meters (3.580 – 3.590 MHz), 40 meters (7.040 – 7.050 MHz), 20 meters (14.070 – 14.080 MHz), 15 meters (21.070 – 21.080 MHz), and 10 meters (28.070 – 28.080 MHz).

TYPE OF COMPETITION

Transmitters and receivers must be located within a 500 meter diameter circle or within the property limits of the station licensee’s address, whichever is greater. All antennas used by the entrant must be physically connected by wires to the transmitters and receivers used by the entrant. Only the entrant’s call sign can be used to aid the entrant’s score. All entrants are allowed to use packet and web clusters. There are no separate entrant categories in the competition; all participants work as SINGLE-OP ALL (Single Operator - All Bands). All stations at which one performs do all of the operating, logging, and spotting functions. Only one signal is allowed at any one time. The operator may change bands at any time. The output power shall not exceed 100 watts.

EXCHANGE

EPC members should send signal report plus EPC membership number (example – 599 EPC00001). Please make sure that you don't separate «EPC» from the «Number», and you don't use any characters between. Please make sure that your EPC number consists of 5 digits. Other stations should send signal report plus QSO number, starting 001 (example – 599 001).

POINTS

Contacts with EPC members are worth 5 points; contacts with other stations are worth 1 point. The same stations may be contacted again on other bands.

Multiplier

A multiplier of one is for each different EPC number contacted on each band.

SCORING

The final score is the result of the total QSO points multiplied by the sum of EPC numbers contacted on each band.

CERTIFICATES AND OTHER PRIZES

 

First, second and third place certificates will be awarded in the World and every continent. First place certificates will be awarded in every participating DXCC country. All scores will be published on the EPC website. All certificates will be issued to the licensee of the station used. All certificates will be issued in a PDF format. If you are interested in sponsoring a special trophy for the EPC BPSK63 QSO Party, please contact the Committee.

LOG INSTRUCTIONS

Mode BPSK63 should be designated in the report as PM and in any way differently! All times must be in UTC. All sent and received exchanges are to be logged. The Contest Committee accepts logs in the Cabrillo format ONLY. Name your Cabrillo file as your call sign (for example - mm0epc.cbr, mm0epc.txt or mm0epc.log). You should send your log upload via the Web interface: http://ua9qcq.com/en/submit_log.php?lang=en   The contest name in the Cabrillo header must be «EPC-PSK63». All logs must be sent no later than 5 days after the contest (23:59 UTC 22 November 2013). Please, your questions or Cabrillo reports which you cannot load, send to the address of: epc(at)epc-ru.ru

SAMPLE LOG

START-OF-LOG: 3.0
CONTEST: EPC-PSK63
CALLSIGN: RK3DSW
CATEGORY-OPERATOR: SINGLE-OP
CATEGORY-BAND: ALL
CATEGORY-POWER: 50 watt
CLUB: EPC#02881
CREATED-BY: MixW v2.19
EMAIL: rk3dsw(at)rambler.ru
NAME: Yuri O.Mirolyubov
ADDRESS: Yubileinaya 1A-158
ADDRESS: Elektrostal 144009 Russia
OPERATORS: RK3DSW
SOAPBOX: FT-1000MP, ant. GP and 2-el Quad
QSO: 14073 PM 2013-11-17 1800 RK3DSW        599 EPC02881 R7JA        599 EPC12061
END-OF-LOG:

Disqualification

Violation of amateur radio regulations in the country of the participant, or the rules of the competition; unsportsmanlike conduct; taking credit for excessive unverifiable contacts or unverifiable multipliers will be deemed sufficient cause for disqualification. Incorrectly logged calls or numbers will be counted as unverifiable contacts for culprit only. The use by an entrant of any non-amateur means such as telephones, telegrams, internet, or the use of packet to solicit contacts during the competition is unsportsmanlike and the entry is subject to disqualification. Actions and decisions of the EPC PSK63 QSO Party Manager are official and final.

The Contest Committee will use the mechanism of monitoring of air for the purpose of revealing of the participants who operate with exceeding of admissible IMD norms, creating considerable QRM and breaking the Rules of the given competitions.
The basis for disqualification can be:
1. The operation with excess of admissible bandwidth of BPSK31,63,125 signal due to overloads, intermodulation, harmonics of a sound card and other reasons. The Contest Committee will declare DQ to participants who will be recorded twice in a time interval not less than 15 minutes with quality of transmitting signal on scale Q<7: http://www.rsq-info.net/RSQ-Reporting-Table.html and worth, with inadmissible bandwidth of signal in Hz visible on "waterfall" and under condition of presence of a level of air noise on the time-and-frequency diagram.
2. The excess of the output power stipulated by given Rules.
3. The use for transmitting of a control number not corresponding to the Rules of contest, divergence in time of QSOs more than 3 minutes.
4. Unsporting behaviour during contest.
The results of the infringers will be cancelled. The appeals are not accepted!  

software

We recommend MixW software [www.mixw.net] to be used in the contest. The required MixW contest setup files for easy and correct operation in the event are listed at R3BB website [www.digitalrus.ru].

73 CU on air de SV7BVM!!!