This popular club event
has something for everyone. What better way to start contesting than in
AFS? You can contribute by just participating and gathering points for
your team and Club. Enjoy the local rivalry, it's great fun! You don't
need to have a high or complex antenna either, a simple low dipole
works well.
Club scores from these contests contribute towards the AFS Super League
The general rules apply to this contest
Dates:
CW Event: Sunday 9th January 2011
SSB Event: Saturday 15th January 2011
Time: 1400
- 1800UTC.
Frequencies:
CW: 3510 - 3590kHz.
SSB: 3600 - 3750kHz
Exchange:
RST plus serial number
1. Eligible Entrants:
(a) Each
entering club must be affiliated to the RSGB.
(b) Each
operator of a team station must be a member of the club they represent.
The operator is not required to be a member of RSGB.
(c) All
stations representing a club must be located within a radius of 50
miles of the normal meeting-place of the club. Where a club has (
branches, eg RNARS, it may define separate );branch meeting-places, and
the team(s) entered by each branch will be considered to be entirely
separate from those entered by other branches, except in respect of
affiliation.
(d) Each
station may be single or multioperator, but no station or operator may
represent more than one affiliated club or branch.
2. Teams:
Teams comprise of up to four stations for both the CW
and SSB
sections. A club may enter as many teams as they wish. Which
stations make up each team is determined by the club entering the
event.
3. Contacts:
In the CW section, the section around 3580kHz is reserved for
slower-speed
contacts. It is intended that operators less experienced in CW and
contest techniques should be able to make contacts here in a more
relaxed environment. Experienced contesters operating around this
frequency are
required to keep their speed down.
4. Scoring:
10 points per contact including overseas.
5. Entries:
Online entries must be
submitted to
http://www.rsgbcc.org/cgi-bin/hfenter.pl
by the date specified in the general rules. One log entry for each
club should include a declaration in the soapbox that all operators are
members of the Affiliated Society, and give the location of the normal
meeting place of the club. In cases where more than four members
represent a club, the soapbox much also state which operators represent
team A, which team B, etc.
Individual entries may alternatively be submitted via the QSO entry web page http://www.rsgbcc.org/cgi-bin/hfcover.pl
Example of AFS CW Contest log.
Example of AFS SSB Contest log.
Further
information regarding the Cabrillo Format
6. Awards:
CW:-
The Edgware Trophy to the leading team.
The Marconi Trophy to the leading single-operator individual station.
SSB:-
The Flight Refuelling ARS Trophy to the leading team.
The RSGB Lichfield Trophy to the leading single-operator individual
station.
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