EA PSK31 Contest 2008

The EA PSK31 Contest takes place on Saturday and Sunday, the 8th and 9th of March.

The contest is sponsored by Unión de Radioaficionados Españoles (URE) and the contest manager is EA4ZB.

Participants:
Any licensed amateur station.

Date:
2nd full weekend of March, from 16:00 UTC Saturday till 16:00 UTC Sunday (March 8-9, 2008).

Mode:
BPSK31.

Bands:
10, 15, 20, 40 and 80 meters, according to IARU Region 1 band plan.

Classes:
1) Single operator all band EA.
2) Single operator single band EA. (One band is only allowed during the contest).
3) Single operator all band non-EA.
4) Single operator single band non-EA. (One band is only allowed during the contest).
5) Multioperator EA, only all bands.
6) Multioperator non EA, only all bands.
NOTES:
a) The use of cluster is allowed for all classes, but it is not allowed self-spotting.
b) In the single operator categories only one signal is allowed in the air.
c) In the multi-operator categories only one signal is allowed by band.

Contest call:
"CQ EA TEST".
Valid contacts: Any station can be contacted during the contest. Every station can be contacted once per band.
The points and/or multipliers derived from UNIQUE QSOs will be NOT valid.

Exchange:
Spanish stations: RST + Province code (see below).
The foreign stations that transmit from the Spanish territory will be considered as EA stations.
DX stations: RST + QSO number starting with 001. Multi-operator stations, if used multi TX, shall report separate serials per band starting with 001.

Scoring:
On 10, 15 and 20 meters, one (1) point for QSO within own continent, and two (2) points for QSO outside own continent.
On 40 and 80 m, three (3) points for QSO within own continent, and six (6) points for QSO outside own continent.

Multipliers:
- EADX100 entities.
- Spanish Provinces.
- USA, Canada, Japan and Australia call areas (VE3, VE6, W5, JA1...).
NOTES:
1) Each multiplier counts once per band.
2) The first QSO with W, VE, JA and VK stations, on each band, counts for two multipliers
(EADX100 entity + call area)
3) The first QSO with EA, EA6, EA8 and EA9 stations, on each band, counts for two multipliers
(EADX100 entity + Province).

Final score:
Total QSO points by total multipliers in all bands.

Prizes:
Trophy to the winner in each class and certificate for the second and third places in each class, if the valid QSO number is higher than 50.

Logs:
All logs should be submitted in Cabrillo format via Internet to the following E-mail address: psk31@ure.es.
Logs should be sent as an e-mail attachment, not in the text of the e-mail, and the filename for the log should be yourcall.log.

Deadline:
All entries must be e-mailed by March 31th, 2007. Logs lately received will not be considered to any effect.