YU DX Contest

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YU DX Contest

Objective
To contact as many stations around the world, and prefixes starting with YT and YU as many as possible.
Date and Time
April 18/19.2015. (3rd full weekend of April).
Saturday 21:00:00 UTC – Sunday 04:59:59 UTC
Sunday 09:00:00 UTC – Sunday 16:59:59 UTC
It’s obligatory to make pause from 05:00:00 UTC to 08:59:59 UTC.
Mode, Bands and Call
Only CW, all bands 1.8 – 28 MHz, except WARC bands.
Any band can be used at any time.
Please avoid using DX band segments.

Cross band contacts are not permitted.
Use of DX spotting networks is permitted and encouraged.
Only one transmitted signal allowed at a time.
Using “CQ TEST YU” call is recommended.
Categories
LOWER QRP
LOWER LP
LOWER HP

UPPER QRP
UPPER LP
UPPER HP

YU LOWER QRP
YU LOWER LP
YU LOWER HP

YU UPPER QRP
YU UPPER LP
YU UPPER HP
(LOWER = 1.8, 3.5 and 7 MHz; UPPER = 14, 21 and 28 MHz)
(QRP = up to 5 W, LP = up to 100 W, HP = up to licensed power)
A station may appear in both LOWER and UPPER categories.
QRP stations need not sign “/QRP.
Exchange
RST + serial number starting from 001 (after the break numbers continue).
QSO Points
One QSO with a station per band is scoring.
1 point for a QSO between stations from your own contry;
2 points for a QSO with your own continent;
4 points for a QSO with another continent.
Unique, Dupe, Not in log and Bad QSO count 0 points.
Multipliers
Sum of different YT and YU prefixes (0 to 9).
Multipliers are counted separately for each band.
Final Score
Total QSO points multiplied by the total number of multipliers.
Sofware
YUDX is supported by:
DXLOG
N1MM
TR4WIN
Win-Test
Use any of major logging software supporting WPX Contest. The contest organizer will recalculate the multipliers and points.
Electronic Logs
Time must be in UTC.
Single log for all bands.
Preferred format cabrillo (call.cbr).