| (1) The HF Championship is is not a contest in its own right. Rather, it requires participation in a number of HF events during the year, with the results considered together. Participation in the contributing contests is by single operators who must be RSGB members, operating in the UK, In this context, UK is defined in the HF General Rules. The winners will have shown a high level of operating and contesting skill in a variety of contests. (2) Six Contests are included in the HF Championship, with all scores contributing to the result. No entry is necessary; a running score will be tabulated after each qualifying contest. (3) For each contest, an entrant's score in the table of the appropriate section (after eliminating non-UK entrants where these are allowed), is expressed as a fraction of winner's score, normalised to 1000, to calculate Qualifying Points (QP). So for example, if the winner scored 512 points in a section, an entrant scoring 384 points would receive 750 Qualifying Points. The maximum score an entrant can achieve, by achieving first place in six qualifying contests, is 6000 Qualifying Points. (4) Contests and Sections included in the HF Championship are shown in the table below. In some of them, several entry classes may be combined as a single section for the purpose of calculating Qualifying Points, such as CW and SSB in the first 1.8MHz contest. (5) Some Contests have several entries in the table, where the Qualifying Points are calculated for a section (or several sections) taken as a unit. For example, in the Commonwealth Contest, there will be three entrants who achieve 1000 QPs: the leader of the Open Section (24 hour), the leader of the Restricted Section (24 hour), and the leader of the 12 hour Open and Restricted sections, combined for the purpose of calculating QPs. (6) Entrants need not operate from the same location for each contest. Entrants must use the callsign allocated to them on their Validation Document, with appropriate Secondary Locator or special prefix as allowed by particular contest rules, for example GM9XXX, G9XXX/P, GI9XXX, etc. Entrants may also use a valid Contest Call (SCC) issued by Ofcom. where qualifying contest rules allow such usage. (7) The winner of the HF Championship will be the station with the highest number of Qualifying Points at the end of the year, and will be awarded the G2QT Trophy. (8) The decisions of the RSGB Contest Committee in relation to the HF Championship contest are final. |
| 1.1 | 1.8MHz UK Section -- mixed-mode entrants | February | Mixed |
| 1.2 | 1.8MHz UK Section -- CW & SSB combined | CW & SSB combined | |
| 2.1 | Commonwealth -- open, 24 hour | March | CW |
| 2.2 |
Commonwealth -- restricted, 24 hour | ||
| 2.3 | Commonwealth -- open & restricted combined, 12 hour | ||
| 3 | Ropoco SSB | April | SSB |
| 4 |
Ropoco CW | August | CW |
| 5.1 | 21/28MHz UK Section -- Open | October | Mixed |
| 5.2 | 21/28MHz UK Section -- restricted & QRP combined | Mixed | |
| 6 | 1.8MHz CW | November | CW |