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WRTC-2014 Contest Rules
Last modified: 7 July 2012 1. Contest Period The WRTC 2014 competition will be held during the IARU 2014 HF Championship. Start: Saturday 12 July 2014 1200 UTC (0800 Local time) End: Sunday 13 July 2014 1200 UTC 2. Frequencies/Bands Only the 3.5, 7, 14, 21, and 28 MHz bands may be used. All participants must obey the frequency regulations of the U.S. Federal CommunicationCommission. 3. Modes CW and SSB. 4. Language Only English language and common international abbreviations can be used when operating either SSB or CW. 5. Contest Exchange 5.1 WRTC stations must send signal report plus ITU zone (W1 area is ITU Zone 08). A complete exchange must be sent and logged for each valid QSO. 5.2 No abbreviations are allowed when sending the exchange either on SSB or CW.You must say 5-9 8 on SSB and 5nn 8 on CW. Additional cut numbers such as enn8 are not allowed. You may increase the speed of the exchange up to a maximum of 50 WPM. Voice recorders are allowed to send the exchange on SSB. It is recommended, but not required to send your call sign in every exchange. 6. Valid QSOs The same station/callsign may be worked once on CW and once on SSB per band. Cross-bandor cross-mode QSOs are not allowed. 7. QSO Points Each valid two-way CW or SSB QSO receives the following QSO points: QSO With ITU Zone 08 Outside ITU Zone 08 and within North America Outside North America IARU member society HQ stations and IARU officials Points 2 3 5 2

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8. Multipliers 8.1. The total number of DXCC countries plus IARUmember society HQ stations on each band will count as multipliers, once per band regardless of the mode. IARU officials represent a maximum of four multipliers per band (AC, R1, R2 and R3). 8.2. IARU member society HQ stations and officials do not count for DXCC country multipliers. 9. Score The final score will be: Score = (Total number of multipliers) x (the sum of QSO points). The judgingcommittee will calculate the final score for all entries based on Cabrillo logs submitted after adjudication. 10. Champions The WRTC2014 Champion will be the team with the highest score. 11. Special Awards o The WRTC2014 SSB Leader will be the team with the highest QSO total on SSB. o The WRTC2014 CW Leader will be the team with the highest QSO total on CW. o The WRTC2014 Multiplier Leader will be theteam with the highest total multiplier. As WRTC is a mixed mode contest, a minimum of 35% of the total number of QSOs must be made on the other mode to qualify as a QSO Leader in either SSB or CW. 12. Special Rules and Disqualification 12.1. WRTC team contest stations must be QRT for at least 15 minutes prior to the contest start (by 1145 UTC). The receiver volume of both radios must be turnedfully off and no monitoring or transmitting is allowed within this 15-minute timeframe. The radios may be left powered on. 12.2. The operators are not allowed to identify themselves (i.e., revealing their own callsigns) before or during the contest or reveal their team identity in any way. Any attempt to do this such as by radio, telephone, SMS, internet, email, etc., will result in immediatedisqualification. Requesting QSOs (e.g., setting schedules with special identification procedures in any way) before the contest period is strictly forbidden. 12.3. You may request QSOs with any station on another band/mode. All requests must occur during the contest with no other attempt to reveal the team’s identity. All requests can only be made on HF CW or SSB, and by no other means. 12.4. Use of DXspotting (e.g., Packet, Web, etc.), skimmer or any other spotting and supplementary information network is not allowed. You are not allowed to receive any assistance to learn the callsign or exchange of any station other than by tuning the radio and listening by human ear.

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12.5. The use of any callsign database or the 'Super Check...