Date
3rd full weekend in April (17/18 april). Time
Saturday 12:00 UTC - Sunday 12:00 UTC.
Bands and modes
All bands 1.8 - 28 MHz except WARC bands. CW
and SSB.
Please avoid using DX portions.
The same station may be worked on both
CW and SSB on the same band. Cross band/mode contacts are not permitted.
Categories
A: SINGLE OP CW
B: SINGLE OP SSB
C: SINGLE OP MIXED
D: MULTI OP SINGLE TX MIXED
D category station must stay on a band
for at least 10 minutes.
Exchange
RS[T] + ITU zone number
Points
1 point for a QSO with your own ITU zone (same
or different continent),
3 points for a QSO with another ITU zone on your
own continent,
5 points for a QSO with another ITU zone on another
continent.
Multipliers
Different ITU zones and different Yugoslav prefixes.
An ITU zone or a Yugoslav prefix counts as a
multiplier once per band only.
Final score
Sum of the QSO points from all bands
multiplied by the sum of multipliers from all
bands.
Paper Logs
a. Times in UTC.
b. Log all sent and received exchanges.
c. Indicate QSO points.
d. Indicate a multiplier the first time
on each band.
e. Indicate duplicate contacts.
f. Use a separate log sheet for
each band.
g. Enclose a summary sheet containing:
- callsign, name and
address,
- scoring information,
per band and total,
- station description,
- signed declaration
that contest rules and amateur radio regulations
in
the country of operation have been observed.
h. More than 2% of unmarked duplicate
contacts may be a sufficient cause
for disqualification.
For each unmarked duplicate QSO, three immediately
preceeding QSOs will
be nullified.
Electronic Logs
a. Times in UTC.
b. Log all sent and received exchanges.
c. Enclose a summary file containing:
- callsign, name and
address,
- scoring information,
per band and total,
- station description,
- declaration that contest
rules and amateur radio regulations
in
the country of operation have been observed.
d. Cabrillo
IARU Contest template is the preferred format,
but any fixed-format
space-delimited ASCII format will do.
e. Use your callsign as the file name.
f. Send a PC compatible floppy disk
or email your log as an attachment.
Deadline
All entries must be postmarked no later than
30 days after the contest.
Address
Snail mail:
Savez radio-amatera Jugoslavije
YU DX Contest
P.O. Box 48
11001 BEOGRAD
Yugoslavia
Email: 2004@yudx.net
Appendix
Yugoslav prefixes start with YU, YT,
YZ, 4N and 4O.
The list of world prefixes with continents
and ITU zones indicated
can be found here.
The table is at the bottom.
A detalied list for USA and Canada can be found
here.
World maps with ITU zones indicated:
black
and white
in
colour
another
colour one
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