Russian WW PSK Contest

The organizer of contest is the Russian Digital Radio Club. The Russian contest on radio short waves communications Russian WW PSK Contest by using the BPSK mode is conducted according to the present Rules annually to penultimate week-end of February

We invite all fans of digital modes to take part in contest from 12.00 UTC on Saturday 21st February till 11:59 UTC on Sunday 22nd February, 2015. Types of modulation:BPSK31, 63, 125. The repeated contacts are permitted on different bands and different modes providing that a contact will be made not earlier than in 3 minutes. The output power should not exceed 10 watts on 160 meters and 100 watts on other bands. The operator may change the bands without any restrictions. The operator may change the bands no more than 10 times within calendar hour (with zero on 59-th minute of each hour). Only one transmitted signal is permitted at any time. Bands: 160 m, 80 m, 40 m, 20 m, 15 m, 10 m.

The First Russian WW PSK Contest took place in 2003. MSSTVs Club was the initiator of that contest. The contest passed in PSK31 mode and only 64 participants sent the reports. The first contest was not prepared technically. There was neither Contest Committee nor proper working software. All that appeared only two years later in 2005. Viktor Kosobokov R3BB managed to write DLL under MixW, afterwards contest committee program was developed. The First winners were: 1st place – RX9SN, 2nd place – UA4FCO, 3rd place – UU4J. Later on the contest became popular and it entered all contest calandaries. In 2011 the Russian section of EPC has carried on MSSTVs Club’s work to organize this contest. In 2015 the Russian Digital Radio Club work to organize RUS-WW-PSK. We invite all amateurs of digital modes and our club-mates in particular to struggle for prizes, awards and contest certificates, and just simply work in your pleasure.

See you later in 13th Russian WW PSK Contest 2015

Date and Time: 

Starting time is at 12:00 UTC on Saturday 21.02.2015 and ending time is at 11:59 UTC on Sunday 22.02.2015

Objective:

– popularization of the digital modes of amateur contacts in Russia; – determination of the most stronger sportsmen of the country and the world; – increasing the skill of the participants.

Modes and samples of signals:

The output power should not exceed 10 watts on 160 meters and 100 watts on other bands.Only one signal is allowed at any one time.

Bands:  Contest participants are allowed to work on 160 meters (1.8 MHz), 80 meters (3.5 MHz), 40 meters (7 MHz), 20 meters (14 MHz), 15 meters (21 MHz) and 10 meters (28 MHz). EPC recommends the following frequencies – 1.840 – 1.843 MHz, 3.582 – 3.590, 7.040 – 7.050 MHz, 14.072 – 14.080 MHz, 21.072 – 21.080 MHz, 28.072 – 28.080 MHz.

Categories (subgroup):

SOAB  – SINGLE-OP ALL  –  Single-Operator, All Bands; MOAB  – MULTI-ONE  –  Multi-Operator, Single Transmitter, All Bands  –  Club stations and SES stations; SOSB  – SINGLE-OP 160M; SINGLE-OP 80M; SINGLE-OP 40M; SINGLE-OP 20M; SINGLE-OP 15M; SINGLE-OP 10M  –  Single Operator, SingleBand; 

SOSWL – SINGLE-OP SWL  –  Single-Operator SWL, All Bands.

Note: The participants can be declared only one subgroup.

Note MOAB: One – five operators with their personal or SWL callsigns can form a team. Personal callsigns should be necessarily specified. Each participant younger than 20 years in subgroup MOAB will be awarded a certificate for participation in the contest.

Note SWL: Bilaterial supervision when both are accepted signal and both control numbers are set off only. With the same signal it is possible to fix in the report only one supervision in each mode on one band. In the report each bilaterial supervision should be written down in one line. For one supervision it is charged three points. Multipliers at observers are not present. A divergence on time standard – no more than 3 minutes. That the report has been accepted to refereeing, it is necessary for making strictly on the recommended sample. Certificates will award the winner, prize-winners and participants in subgroup SWL on the basis of the general rules of rewarding.

Note to air monitoring: Observers and participants of the contest can assist the Contest Committee in terms of monitoring and recording of air possible violations. 

Number Exchange:

Participants from Russia, and also the foreign radioamateurs who are being in territory of Russia, should send RS,RST(Q) plus 2-letter abbreviation of Russian Area (oblast) Code (example for Moscow region – 599 MA). The list of Russia areas and their symbols look in the appendix on this page (in the end of the text of rules position). Participants from other countries and territories of the world (except for Russia), should send RS,RST(Q) plus QSO number, starting 001 (example – 599 001). The numeration on bands is current.General call – “CQ RUSTEST”.

The repeated contacts are permitted on different bands and different modes providing that a contact will be made not earlier than in 3 minutes. The contact with correspondent who has not sent the report can be accepted if the callsign of the correspondent can be met not less than in three different reports.

Points: Each contact between stations on 20, 15 and 10 m is worth: – inside the country – 1 point; – with other country – 3 points; – with other continents – 5 points. The points on 160, 80 and 40 m are doubled.

Multiplier:

The multiplier are the countries according to the list of DXCC and Russian areas on each band.

Scoring:

The final score is the result of the total points multiplied by the sum of multipliers.

Prizes and Awards:

Awards in electronic type will be awarded to:

1. The certificate of the WINNER: – For 1 place in subgroups; – For 1 place on continents in each subgroup, under condition of not less than 3 participants from continent; – For 1 place in each country DXCC in each of subgroups, under condition of not less than 3 participants from the country; – For 1 place in each Federal districts of Russia in each of subgroups, under condition of not less than 3 participants from Federal districts. 2. The certificate of the PRIZEWINNER: – For 2 and 3 place in subgroups; – For 2 and 3 place on continents in each subgroup, under condition of not less than 5 participants from continent; – For 2 and 3 place in each country DXCC in each of subgroups, under condition of not less than 5 participants from the country; – For 2 and 3 place in each Federal districts of Russia in each of subgroups, under condition of not less than 5 participants from Federal districts. 3. The certificate of the PARTICIPANT: – For reception of this certificate it is necessary for each of participants to lead to memory of the 70 anniversary of the Victory over Great Domestic War not less than 70 test QSO’s confirmed by final results in subgroups competing. 4. Each participant younger than 20 years will be rewarded the personal certificate, for this purpose it is necessary to specify full Name, Surname and date of birth in the report.

Participants who got in DQ will not receive the awards, as well as those who sent reports for check (checklog). Therefore, we advise you to be necessarily declared in subgroups and not break the rules of our contest.

All winners and prizewinners will be sent only one award (in jpg format) for the higher of occupied rewarded places by e-mail.

The note: For correct registration of the certificate necessarily specify in the Cabrillo report yours e-mail and a full writing of a name and a surname.

Log Instructions: 

PSK modes in Cabrillo file must be identified as follows:

BPSK31   – PS

BPSK63   – PM

BPSK125 – PO

Name your Cabrillo file as your callsign (for example – R3BB.cbr, R3BB.log or R3BB.txt). You may send your log via the Web interface: http://ua9qcq.com/en/submit_log.php?lang=en   or via email: rusww@rdrclub.ru

All logs must be sent no later than 5 days after the contest.

SAMPLE of CABRILLO:  

START-OF-LOG: 3.0 CONTEST: RUS-WW-PSK CALLSIGN: UN7KP CATEGORY-OPERATOR: SINGLE-OP CATEGORY-BAND: ALL CATEGORY-POWER: 50 W CLAIMED-SCORE: 20 EMAIL: ut7fp(at)srars.org LOCATION:  CLUB: RDRC CREATED-BY: MixW NAME: Victor S. Ivanov (for participants 20 years are younger to name date of a birth) ADDRESS: Box 20, Alma-Aty, 123456, Kazachstan OPERATORS: UT7FP SOAPBOX: tranciver and antenna, for /P – to specify the power supply, WWLoc and Area SOAPBOX: MY FIRST DIGI CONTEST – to specify, if it is your first Digi-contest QSO: 14075 PS 2015-02-22 0208 UN7KP         599 001    R7JA          599 SO  QSO: 21077 PM 2015-02-22 0211 UN7KP         599 002    OZ4AS         599 073 QSO: 21075 PO 2015-02-22 0213 UN7KP         599 003    RW6MOL        599 RO  END-OF-LOG:

Address of Log report: You should send your log upload via the Web interface: http://ua9qcq.com/en/submit_log.php?lang=enor via email:rusww@rdrclub.ru

Last date of Log report: 23:59 UTC 27 February 2015 

Allowed correspondents: Amateur radio operators from Russia and other countries of the world may participate in the competition.

Disqualification:

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 the prevention (a yellow card) to the participant for one fixed infringement on quality of a signal on the basis of spectrograms-screenshots. The prevention does not influence result in results, but means, that certificates will not be given out to this participant, and also it cannot apply for prizes.

The Contest Committee will declare DQ (a red card)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. Transmitted of two and more signals to one moment of time.
4. The use for transmitting of a control number not corresponding to the Rules of contest.
5. Not the message in the cabrillo report of data on a QTH of radio station.
6. Work from territory of Russia the call signs which have been not stipulated by regulating documents of Ministry of Communications and GRFC of Russia.
7. More than 30 % of not confirmed QSOs.
8. Unsporting behaviour during contest.

The results of the infringers will be cancelled. The appeals are not accepted!

Software for working in contest:

Russian WW PSK Contest is supported with the following software:

– MixW от UT2UZ  www.mixw.net .

  DLLfor this contest to download here: http://www.digitalrus.ru/Files/StatsRUSWWPSK.zip        Adjusting MixW for RUS-WW-PSK (eng):   

– RCKLogот DL4RCK  www.dl4rck.de

– N1MM  www.n1mm.hamdocs.com

– UR5EQF_logот UR5EQF  forum ur5eqf_log

  DLLfor this contest to download here: http://ur1004swl.ucoz.ru/Contest/RussianWWPSKContest.rar

– AATest от RZ4AG  www.dxsoft.com

– 5MContest  http://5mcontest.qrz.ru

When preparing to the contest read the items of Russian WW PSK Contest Rules attentively and do not make mistakes when you work on the air or make up a report. Before sending a report file in Cabrillo format, please compare it to the sample and check the identity of modes to PS, PM, PO.

Please check up whether “head” of the report is made properly, if there are test subgroup or subgroups, your address, e-mail and all other data in it. At reception of the report you receive the standard answer from the post robot.

We wish you great success and enjoyable participation in our contest!