HA-DX Contest

Photo: HG7T

In memoriam Macsuga Győző, HA0MM

Contest Rules – Hungarian DX Contest

Organizer: Hungarian Radioamateur Society.

Goals: to promote the traditionally good friendship between the radioamateurs.

Date and time: The 3rd full weekend of January, between Saturday 12:00 UT to Sunday 11:59 UT. In 2016: 16-17th January.

Participants: any licensed radioamateur station or SWL.

Frequencies: 1,8 – 28 MHz (no WARC bands). The recommendations for IARU Region 1. Bandplan have to be obeyed.

Modes: CW and SSB.

Categories:

SOAB CW LP – Single Op All Bands CW Low Power
SOAB CW HP – Single Op All Bands CW High Power
SOAB SSB LP – Single Op All Bands SSB Low Power
SOAB SSB HP – Single Op All Bands SSB High Power
SOAB MIX QRP – Single Op All Bands MIXED QRP
SOAB MIX LP – Single Op All Bands MIXED Low Power
SOAB MIX HP – Single Op All Bands MIXED High Power
SOSB CW LP – Single Op Single Band CW Low Power
SOSB CW HP – Single Op Single Band CW High Power
SOSB SSB LP – Single Op Single Band SSB Low Power
SOSB SSB HP – Single Op Single Band SSB High Power
SOSB MIX LP – Single Op Single Band MIXED Low Power
SOSB MIX HP – Single Op Single Band MIXED High Power
MS MIX LP – Multi Ops All Bands Single TX MIXED only Low Power
MS MIX HP – Multi Ops All Bands Single TX MIXED only High Power
MM – Multi Ops All Bands Multi TX MIXED only

QRP: Max 10W out
Low Power: Max 100W out
High Power: Max 1500W out

The Categories to be used in the header of the Cabrillo log files can be found on the contest home page (www.ha-dx.com) under the Submit Log / Example Cabrillo menu.

Contacts: Any station can be contacted during the contest. Every station can be contacted once per band and mode.

Exchange: RS(T) + QSO number starting with 001. MM stations shall use separate serial numbers per band, starting with 001.

Stations operating from HUNGARY – RS(T) give their HA-DXC membership number or two letters county code.

(The new membership number multipliers are not correctly handled by some contest softwares.

Anyway, just submit your Cabrillo file after the contest, as our evaluator software checks all QSOs and recalculates points and multipliers.)

Hungarian county codes: ZA, GY, VA, KO, VE, SO, TO, BA, FE, BP, NG, HE, PE, SZ, BE, CS, BN, BO, SA, HB.

Points:

QSO with own DXCC country: 1 points;

Another country on same continent: 1 point;

Other continent: 3 points;

Contacts with Hungarian stations: 6 points.

Multipliers: Hungarian counties and HA-DXC member numbers per band.

Total score: Sum of QSO points multiplied by sum of multipliers. If no Hungarian stations were reached multiply QSO points by one.

Logs: Only Cabrillo format. Cabrillo files can be

submitted on the world wide web under the following URL: http://www.ha-dx.com
sent as e-mail attachment to the following e-mail address: hadx@mrasz.axelero.net

If you cannot create a Cabrillo file please use our simple manual log editor interface on the web under the following URL: http://www.ha-dx.com

If you have any questions or remarks please use our information e-mail: address: contestmanager@mrasz.axelero.net

Paper log only for check.

Deadline of log submission is not later then after the contest second monday 23:59 UT (based on email timestamp )

Contest Softwares: N1MM logger, SD by EI5DI, MixW., WIN-TEST, UCXLOG, CTWIN, TR4W

!!! New HA-DX databasbase files for WIN-TEST (ha-dx.zip) and N1MM

Awards: every contest participant gets a certification which will be available for download on the contest home page after publishing the final result.

Remarks:

The logged but not scored dupe contact is not qualified as an error;

The maximum time different between the logged contacts is 3 minutes. If based on received logs it could be proved clearly that who logged the wrong time, then contact of entrant logging wrong time should be only counted as an error;

A contact with a station meaning multiplier has to be logged at least more two logs if this station has not sent a log. Otherwise this contact is going to be erased;