NRAU Activity 10m Contest

Start: Monthly in 1st Thursday in 17:00 UTC (summer) or 18:00 UTC (winter)

Finish: Thursday in 20:59 UTC (summer) or 21:59 UTC (winter)

Modes: CW, SSB, FM, Digital

Bands:

10m

Categories (classes):
- CW
- SSB
- FM
- RTTY
- MIXED

FM - Frequency modulation;
RTTY - Ditigtal => RTTY, Amtor, PSK31, PSK63, JT65, FSK441;
MIXED is Combined category, for example 2, 3 or 4 categories: CW+SSB, CW+FM, CW+SSB+FM, CW+SSB+FM+RTTY etc.

There are following modes and timetable:

Mode      Between         Between
          (summer)        (winter)
CW      1700-1800 UTC   1800-1900 UTC
SSB     1800-1900 UTC   1900-2000 UTC
FM      1900-2000 UTC   2000-2100 UTC
Digital 2000-2100 UTC   2100-2200 UTC

Only 1 QSO per contacted station per hours

NON-NRAU Station can ONLY work station in NRAU.
Stations from NRAU have following valid DXCC prefixes:
JW Svalbard and Bear Island
JX Jan Mayen
LA-LB-LG-LJ-LN Norway
OF-OG-OH-OI  Finland
OF0-OG0-OH0 Aaland
OJ0 Market Reef
OX-XP Greenland
OW-OY Faroe Islands
5P-5Q-OU-OV-OZ Denmark
7S-8S-SA-SB-SC-SD-SE-SF-SG-SH-SI-SJ-SK-SL-SM Sweden
TF Iceland

Exchanges:

RS(T) + Gridlocator e.g. 599 JP50HQ.

Points for QSO:

1 point per km distance.

500 additional bonus points for each new main locator e.g. JO49, JO59 etc.

Logs:

Only submit electronic Cabrillo log!

Best QRB = please add note for your longest achived QRB(distance in kilometer) between each locator on each mode. You may use
this tool if you dont have it in your log link.

Any DX log (non-NRAU) are welcome to create activity if a QSO has been made with radio amateur stations in TF, OZ, OY, LA, JW,
JX, SM, OH, OH0 or OJ0.

National logs must comply with National HF Contest Management's instructions.

Instructions to download the log via Web interface:
- Only one log for the Contest as MIXED category. Judges, calculate the results for each mode separately as well as MIXED.

Sending of electronic logs:

You can upload log via Web interface or send by e-mail:

NRRL - Norway (including non-NRAU logs): hfcontest@nrrl.no

SSA - Sweden: nac28@ssa.se

EDR - Denmark: oz3abe@edr.dk

SRAL - Finland: og9x@sral.fi

FRA - Faroe Islands: liaison@fra.fo

IRA - Iceland: ira@ira.is

Postal address for sending the log:

NRRL - Norway (including non-NRAU logs):
by 'snail mail' labeled 'NRAU NAC 10m' to:
NRRL HF Contest Manager, LA6FJA
Stein Roar Brobakken
P.O. box 5
N-2853 Reinsvoll

Deadline:

14 days after the contest.

Web-site: http://www.nrau.net/activity-contests.html

Link for original rules:

Examples lines for Cabrillo format logs:
000000000111111111122222222223333333333444444444455555555556666666666777777777788
123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901
                              -------transmitted------ -------received---------
**** ***** ** ********** **** ************* *** ****** ************* *** ****** *
For CW:
QSO: 28015 CW 2013-02-07 1800 LA6FJA        599 JP50EV SM6GOR        599 JO68TH
For SSB:
QSO: 28497 PH 2013-02-07 1900 LA6FJA        55  JP50EV LA3CLA        55  JP50HW
For FM:
QSO: 29322 FM 2013-02-07 2000 LA6FJA        57  JP50EV OH3JSZ        55  KP24VE
For Digital:
QSO: 28077 RY 2013-02-07 2100 LA6FJA        599 JP50EV SM4YMP        599 JP70VK

Examples head for Cabrillo format logs:
CW
SSB
FM
RTTY
MIXED

MIXED (Cabrillo 3.0 format):
START-OF-LOG: 3.0
CONTEST: NRAU-10
CALLSIGN: LA6FJA
CATEGORY-MODE: MIXED
NAME: Stein Roar Brobakken
ADDRESS: pobox 5
ADDRESS-CITY: reinsvoll
ADDRESS-POSTALCODE: NO-2853
ADDRESS-COUNTRY: NORWAY
EMAIL: la6fja@nrrl.no

MIXED (Cabrillo 2.0 format):
START-OF-LOG: 2.0
CONTEST: NRAU-10
CALLSIGN: LA6FJA
CATEGORY: MIXED
NAME: Stein Roar Brobakken
ADDRESS: pobox 5
ADDRESS: reinsvoll, NO-2853
ADDRESS: NORWAY
EMAIL: la6fja@nrrl.no