International Naval Contest

The International Naval Contest (INC) takes place every year on the second weekend of December.

This year, MF (German Naval Society, Marinefunkerrunde) will be organizing the International Naval Contest.

Make your efforts to be on the air. Your participation will be very much apreciated. So, tune your antenas, test your equipments and tell your familiy you are going to be busy for 24 hours.

Let's put all naval ham comunity on the air. Its our feast!!!

Hope Neptune and Propagation be side by side supporting our Contest!

Fair winds to all!

Best Regards,

António - CT1CZT

Contest details

When:
11th December 2010 16:00 UTC to 12th December 2010 15:59 UTC

Bands:
1.8- 3.5 - 7 - 14 - 21 - 28 MHz
(Attention: 160 m is new for testing if the night hours would be more interesting.)

Mode:
CW - SSB - Mixed

Information to be given on contact:
1. Naval Club Member: RST+CLUB+MEMBERSHIP NUMBER (eg. "599 MF004")
2. Non Naval Member: RST+NUMBER (eg. "599 001")

Points:
1. Naval Club Members: 10 Points
2. Non Naval Members: 1 Point

Multiplier:
1. Every contacted and logged member of a participating Naval Club.
2. Every station only counted once as multiplier during the contest regardless the number of bands you work them on.

Note: Participation in contest only allowed as a member of one club, do not use different club membership numbers!

Score:
Total QSO points * Multipliers = total score

Participating naval clubs:
ANARS Australian Naval Amateur Radio Society: AX
BMARS Belgian Maritime Amateur Radio Society: BM
MFCA Marine Funker Club Austria: CA
FNARS Finnish Naval Amateur Radio Society: FN
INORC Italian "Navy Old Rhythmers Club": IN
MARAC Marine Amateur Radio Club Netherlands: MA
MF Marinefunker-Runde e.V.: MF
ARMI Associazione Radioamatori Marinai Italiani: MI
RNARS Royal Naval Amateur Radio Society: RN
YO-MARC Romanian Marine Radio Amateur Club: YO
NRA Núcleo de Radio Amadores da Armada Portugal: PN

Classes:
A = all band mixed mode (single op)
B = all band CW (single op)
C = all band SSB (single op)
D = all band SWL
E = Naval Club Station (multi op)
F = Non Naval

Trophys:
1st winner of each class Awards: A Special Award will be present to sencond/third classified stations of each class.

Logs:
All electronic logs are to use formats: Cabrillo, Word, Excel, Text or ADIF (CSV; DOC; XLS; TXT; ADI).
(CSV; DOC; XLS; TXT; ADI).
Each Log is to be titled at least with the contest stations call sign and participating class. If there are missing these informations or one of them the log will be disqualified from evaluation!

Having into consideration that there still could be a number of Old Men who won't use computers for logging, we will accept handwritten paper logs exceptionally. However these logs will be excluded from evaluation and they will only be accepted as checklogs. This method seems to be necessary in accordance with a fair and fast evaluation process and results also in recommendations of former contest
managers.

A summary sheet is to have a signed FAIR PLAY STATEMENT stating that contest rules and general amateur rules have been applied during operation. Feasible calculation of the total score should be a necessity.

Contest manager:
(All handwritten paper logs are to be forwarded)
MF-Runde e.V.
Albert Homrighausen, DF8LD
Am Fliederbogen 2
D-24980 Schafflund
Germany

Electronic logs are to be addressed to:
df8ld@darc.de

(every recepted log will be confirmed with a short mail from contest manager)

Logs to be received by: 1st February

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