IARU Region-1 160m Contest

This contest is sponsored by IARU Reg. 1 and the 1998 edition is processed by CCF (Finland).

1. Purpose	This is a worldwide competition: everyone may work everyone else, including stations in his own country. The contest may be entered by all licenced radioamateurs and SWLs.
2. Date and Time	The contest will be held on the third full weekend of November from 14:00 UTC Saturday until 08:00 UTC Sunday. In 1998 it will be on November 21/22.
3. Mode	CW only.
4. Entry Categories	SO = Single operator MOST = Multi operator single tx SWL = SWL, single operator Note: single operators may operate up to 14 hours. Rest periods must be marked clearly in the log and must be at least 1 hour long. Multi operators may have only 1 signal on the air at any given time. Everyone is permitted to use PacketCluster and such use does not change a single operator into a multi operator.
5. Frequencies	160m only, 1810-1950 kHz. Participants MUST carefully observe the IARU Band Plan as well as their national regulations and limits for 160m.
6. Exchange	Send RST and a two or three letter/digit DISTRICT CODE (i. e. DOK for DL, Dept. for F, County for G, State for USA, Province for I and VE, Territory for VK, and so on).
7. QSO/Points	One (1) point for each complete QSO.
8. Multipliers	One (1) multiplier for each different DISTRICT CODE, One (1) multiplier for each DXCC/WAE country.
9. Final Score	The sum of QSO Points times the sum of multipliers.
10. Logs and summary sheet	Logs should be A4-size and must show all the QSO data. A summary sheet (including a signed declaration) is required as well as a dupe sheet (only if more than 100 QSOs are logged). Logs on disk are appreciated (ASCII formats). Logs must be postmarked not later than 31st December, 1998 and sent to: IARU Reg. 1 Contest Contest Club Finland c/o Ari Korhonen, OH1EH Kreetalankatu 9 as 1 29200 Harjavalta FINLAND Alternatively, logs in ASCII format (or as attached files) may be sent via e-mail addressed to [email protected] You will receive an acknowledgement of receipt of your log. Please note that these addresses are valid only for the 1998 contest. There will be other addresses published for subsequent years.
11. Penalties	Logs will be carefully checked by the Contest Committee and mistakes may cause a score reduction.
12. SWL	Listeners are required to log the callsigns of both the station heard and the correspondent station. Score is calculated based only upon the station heard using the same rules as trasmitting stations. A callsign may not appear more than 3 (three) times as a correspondent. SWLs MUST log no more than 1 (one) QSO on each line of their log.
13. Awards	Plaques for the first 3 stations in the SO category; plaque for the first station in the MOST and SWL categories; certificates for country winners.