***** The JASTA SSTV Activity Contest Rules ***** (2003)

	http://village.infoweb.ne.jp/~jasta/english/index.html

1.Contest periods:
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From August 1st (00:00 UTC) to August 31 (24:00 UTC) 

2.Bands:
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14MHz and upper bands(Very sorry, Bands are so much crowded on 40m and 80m in Japan that no rooms for SSTV contest)
Follow the frequencies officially licensed to a station individually.

3.Sections of Entry:
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a) "J" section(Japanese only): Japanese domestic stations 
b) "S" section(DX station): If a Japanese operate outside Japan, this will be taken as DX.

4.QSO Point:
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 Exchange the usual RSV plus a progressive QSO number starting with 001 which is drawed on the picture. Regardless bands, a station may only be worked with once a day and one's own face picture or some kinds of illustration of one's face must be exchanged. 

- RSV+001  (e.g.  595001,... 5951000,...)
- You'll be able to work same station if it'll be a different day(UTC).
- Your face picture (or illustration of your face) must be transmitted.
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 QSO points are depends on bands
	14-28MHz ... 1 point
	50-430MHz ... 2 points
	1200MHz & upper and Satellite... 3 points

5. Multipliers:
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 Japanese callsign areas(JA1-JA0 total 10) + DXCC entities + working days(10 days at the maximum even if one may work more than 10 days)
note:Prefix 7K-7N's are all JA1 area

6. Scoring:
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 The final score is computed by multiplying the sum of the QSO points by the sum of multipliers.

7. Contest awards: 
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1) A shield will be sent to the 1st, the 2nd and the 3rd Score of each sections. But when entry stations are less than 10,will be sent to the 1st only.
2) A special acctivity present will be sent to some of the stations who work over 10 days by lot.
(A JASTA T-shirts to 20 station)
3) New face certificate will be sent to the 1st of new comers. so please write "new comer" on summary sheets.

8. Logs:
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Summary sheets and Log sheets should be arranged and mailed to the Contest manager. For DX station, "CQ WW" contest format is acceptable. Please enclose SASE and 1 IRC for reply. The log in a text file by Email is also acceptable now.

9. Deadline for log entries:
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Log entries with a stamp of a local POST office dated not later than September 30 will only be accepted. In case of Email, it must be sent till this deadline.

10 Regulations:
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1) StationF Amateur Ham Radio station who has a license to transmit SSTV signal. 
2) Output power: Up to maximum power officially licensed to a station individually. 
3) Both B/W and Color Picture QSO are accepted. 
4) A contest QSO should be one to one style QSO. Round style QSO between multiple stations can not be counted as a contest QSO. 
5) Cross band QSO will not be counted as a contest QSO. (exceot Satellite)
6) All the QSO; JA to JA station, JA to DX station, DX to DX station can be accepted as contest QSOs.

11.Results announcement:
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The contest result will be sent to all stations who sent SASE. And announced on JASTA homepage and Japanese "CQ ham radio" magazine .

12.The Contest Manager and Mailing Address :
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JASTA Contest Secretariat   Email:ja3wzt@mue.biglobe.ne.jp
c/o YOSHIKAZU TANABE JA3WZT/1 
905-8,SHIMOTANIGANUKI,IRUMA,SAITAMA,358 JAPAN

