The new International Helvetia Contest with the new rules (All-to-all QSO) which takes place 29 – 30 April 2017 at 13:00 UTC – 12:59 UTC.
Rules in English available here: http://www.uska.ch/
There are two main major changes in the Rules:
Scoring of Contacts, Multipliers:
Contact with a station in Switzerland: 10 points
Contact with a station within the same continent: 1 point
Contact with a station outside the own continent: 3 points
Multipliers: Canton and DXCC country (including Switzerland) per band: 1 point
Categories:
SOAB-CW-HP
SOAB-SSB-HP
SOAB-CW + SSB + Digital-QRP
SOAB-CW + SSB + Digital-HP
MOAB-CW-HP
MOAB-SSB-HP
MOAB-CW + SSB + Digital-HP
SWL
Watch out: The logs must be sent as a datafile to contest@uska.ch within 8 days.
For further information please go to the official USKA page:http://www.uska.ch/
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