EU Sprint
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<Rules 2000>


The EU Sprint Gang hereby invites you to participate in the four 
European Sprint Contests held in 2000


Entrants: 
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any licensed station may enter the Sprint. 
European stations can work everybody, stations outside of Europe can 
work only European stations.


Categories: 
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Single Operator ONLY. Only ONE signal may be aired at one time.


Dates:
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EU SPRINT Spring:

 SSB: third Saturday in April - 15 April 2000 - managed by G4BUO
{03SAT04:1500:239:Spring-SSB} 
 CW: third Saturday in May - 20 May 2000 - managed by B.C.C.
{03SAT05:1500:239:Spring-CW}  


EU SPRINT Autumn:

 SSB: first Saturday in October - 7 October 2000 - managed by I2UIY
{01SAT10:1500:239:Autumn-SSB}  
 CW: second Saturday in October - 14 October 2000 - managed by OK2FD
{02SAT10:1500:239:Autumn-CW}  


Time: 
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from 15:00 UTC until 18:59 UTC.


Bands: 
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20, 40 and 80 meters only. 
Pilot frequencies are: 
SSB: 14.250, 7.050, 3.730. 
CW: 14.040, 7.025, 3.550


Exchange: 
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all of the following data MUST BE PART OF THE EXCHANGE:

 your callsign, 
 
 the other station's callsign,
 
 your serial number starting from 001 (RST not required),
 
 your name or nickname.
 

Please note that BOTH callsigns MUST be repeated by BOTH stations. 
A valid exchange is: 
"OK2FD de I2UIY 118 Paolo" while 
"OK2FD 118 Paolo" is NOT a valid exchange.


Special QSY Rule: 
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if any station initiates a call (by sending CQ, QRZ?, etc.), he is 
permitted to work ONLY one station on the same frequency. 
He must thereafter move AT LEAST 2 (two) kHz before he may call 
another station or before he may solicit again (CQ, QRZ?, etc.) 
other calls.


Valid contacts: 
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valid contacts are QSOs correctly logged and confirmed. 
Each operator may use ONE and ONLY one name during the Sprint. 
If the exchange is copied incorrectly, that operator will receive 
zero (0) points. In case of miscopied callsigns, both stations will 
receive zero (0) points for that QSO.


Scoring: 
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each valid QSO counts one 1 (one) point. 
The final score is the total number of QSOs.


Awards: 
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Colorful certificates will be issued to the winners. 
Results will be forwarded as soon as possible to Leagues, magazines and 
bulletins.


Logs: 
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a single chronological log is required. 
PLEASE SEND US YOUR LOG ON A FLOPPY DISK. 
Use any of the available software or send a plain ASCII file. 
A separate summary sheet is required too. 
Please send us the right files: if you use DL2NBU's sw, we want 
yourcall.ASC file, if you use N6TR's sw, we want yourcall.DAT file, if 
you use the IK4EWK's sw, we want yourcall.DBF file. If you want the 
latest release of the DL2NBU software, you can download it from the 
BCC homepage.

Logs must be sent NO later than 15 days after the contest to the 
appropriate address:

 Spring SSB Sprint: Dave Lawley, G4BUO, 
                    Carramore, 
                    Coldharbour Road, 
                    Penshurst, Kent, 
                    TN11 8EX, 
                    England, UK.
 
 Spring CW Sprint: Bernhard Buettner, DL6RAI, 
                   Schmidweg 17, 
                   85609 Dornach, 
                   Germany.
 
 Autumn SSB Sprint: Paolo Cortese, I2UIY, 
                    P. O. Box 14, 
                    27043 Broni (PV), 
                    Italy.
 
 Autumn CW Sprint: Karel Karmasin, OK2FD, 
                   Gen. Svobody 636, 
                   674 01 Trebic, 
                   Czech Republic.
 

Logs for any of the four events may also be sent by 
Internet Mail to eusprint@dl6rai.muc.de. 
The receipt of your electronic log will be confirmed. 
If you don't receive a confirmation within two days, try again or use the postal 
system.

Thanks in advance for your participation de: G4BUO, I2UIY, OK2FD & 
the B.C.C. Sprint Committee
