EU Sprint

The EU Sprint Gang hereby invites you to participate in the four European
Sprint Contests held in 2000

1. Entrants	Any licensed station may enter the Sprint. European stations can work everybody, stations outside of Europe can work only European stations.
2. Categories	Single Operator ONLY. Only ONE signal may be aired at one time.
3. Dates	EU SPRINT Spring: SSB: third Saturday in April - 15 April 2000 - managed by G4BUO CW: third Saturday in May - 20 May 2000 - managed by B.C.C. EU SPRINT Autumn: SSB: first Saturday in October - 7 October 2000 - managed by I2UIY CW: second Saturday in October - 14 October 2000 - managed by OK2FD
4. Time	From 15:00 UTC until 18:59 UTC.
5. Bands	20, 40 and 80 meters only. Pilot frequencies are: SSB: 14.250, 7.050, 3.730. CW: 14.040, 7.025, 3.550
6. Exchange	All of the following data MUST BE PART OF THE EXCHANGE: a) your callsign, b) the other station's callsign, c) your serial number starting from 001 (RST not required), d) your name or nickname. Please note that BOTH callsigns MUST be repeated by BOTH stations. A valid exchange is: "OK2FD de I2UIY 118 Paolo" while "OK2FD 118 Paolo" is NOT a valid exchange.
7. Special QSY Rule	If any station initiates a call (by sending CQ, QRZ?, etc.), he is permitted to work ONLY one station on the same frequency. He must thereafter move AT LEAST 2 (two) kHz before he may call another station or before he may solicit again (CQ, QRZ?, etc.) other calls.
8. Valid Contacts	Valid contacts are QSOs correctly logged and confirmed. Each operator may use ONE and ONLY one name during the Sprint. If the exchange is copied incorrectly, that operator will receive zero (0) points. In case of miscopied callsigns, both stations will receive zero (0) points for that QSO.
9. Scoring	Each valid QSO counts one 1 (one) point. The final score is the total number of QSOs.
10. Awards	There are NO awards or prizes since these contests have been created to test the individual skills only. Results will be forwarded as soon as possible to Leagues, magazines and bulletins.
11. Logs	A single chronological log is required. PLEASE SEND US YOUR LOG ON A FLOPPY DISK. Use any of the available software or send a plain ASCII file. A separate summary sheet is required too. Please send us the right files: if you use DL2NBU's sw, we want yourcall.ASC file, if you use N6TR's sw, we want yourcall.DAT file, if you use the IK4EWK's sw, we want yourcall.DBF file, if you use the EI5DI's sw, we want yourcall.LOG file. If you want the latest release of the DL2NBU software, you can download it from the BCC homepage: http://www.rrze.uni-erlangen.de/~unrz45/BCC. The link for downloading SPRINT.EXE is: ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/pc-freeware/hamradio/logbuch/contest Logs must be sent NO later than 15 days after the contest to the appropriate address: Spring SSB Sprint: Dave Lawley, G4BUO, Carramore, Coldharbour Road, Penshurst, Kent, TN11 8EX, England, UK. Spring CW Sprint: Bernhard Buettner, DL6RAI, Schmidweg 17, 85609 Dornach, Germany. Autumn SSB Sprint: Paolo Cortese, I2UIY, P. O. Box 14, 27043 Broni (PV), Italy. Autumn CW Sprint: Karel Karmasin, OK2FD, Gen. Svobody 636, 674 01 Trebic, Czech Republic. Logs for any of the four events may also be sent by Internet Mail to "[email protected]". The receipt of your electronic log will be confirmed. If you don't receive a confirmation within two days, try again or use the postal system.