Ten-Ten International Summer QSO Party
                        

Date: 		August 5 - 6, 2000.

Time: 		Saturday 0001 - Sunday 2400 UTC.

Mode: 		PHONE.

Band: 		28 MHz.


1.
             	PHONE contacts must be made in the 10-meter phone band on SSB,
		AM, or FM.
             	CW contacts must be in the 10-meter band on CW or RTTY.

2.
             	Exchange callsign, Name. State or Country and 10-10 Number.
		Some stations may request your county or other 10-10 Chapter information.

3.
             	Single operator stations only are acceptable.

4.
             	A station may be counted only once.

5.
             	All contacts must take place during the 48 hour contest period.

6.
             	Logs must be kept in UTC time.

7.
             	A DUPE sheet is required of all participants regardless of
		number of contacts made. Computer duping is acceptable provided that the
		program has a resident sort program internal that will print out contacts
		in an alpha-numeric sequence. Manual duping may be done by the 100 square
		grid method. An alpha-numeric list of all non 10-10 contacts must
		accompany the grid type dupe sheet. Sample Dupe sheets are available from
		the Contest Manager for a SASE.

8.
             	Chapter assignments of scores may be made only by a paid-up
		member belonging to that Chapter as a local member and be able to work its
		net via ground wave.

9.
             	Illegible or improperly submitted logs, or failure to comply
		with these rules or their intent will result in disqualification.

10.
             	Disqualified logs will appear in the results as Check Logs. No
		logs will be returned.

11.
             	SCORING: Two (2) points per contact with 10-10 number exchange.
             	One (1) point per contact without 10-10 number exchange.
             	Multiply this result by the number of legitimate prefixes
		worked. Example: K1 W1 KA1 XE2 JA6 count as 5 multipliers. Be aware you
		should carefully keep track of your multipliers as to not duplicate.
		A multiplier may be used only once, regardless of suffix. You need not
		submit a multiplier dupe sheet, but be aware that disqualification
		criteria is 10% for all errors.

12.
             	CATEGORIES: The categories which you may submit your logs for
		are: Individual, QRP, Club. In all categories you may assign your score to
             	your appropriate Chapter.

12 a.
             	Individual Rules as stated previous. OM/XYL or Families using
		one shared station with individual distinctive callsigns/10-10 numbers
		accepted.

12 b.
             	QRP Rules as stated previous plus the transmitter output power
		not to exceed 5 watts output CW, or 10 watts PEP SSB or 10 watts output
             	AM/FM.

12 c.
             	Club Rules as stated previous. Club stations must be a
		legitimate club with a membership of at least 5 with a distinctive
		government issued call and have its own 10-10 number registered to 
		the club. Single operator only.
             	All members operating the Club station during a contest must
		be paid-up members of 10-10. Although multi-operator class is not generally
             	accepted, we will allow multiple operators in Club competition
		only, provided that a list of all operators with proof of paid membership
             	accompanies the submitted logs.
             	Multi-transmitters (2 transmitters operating simultaneously,
		sharing one call sign) will not be accepted.

13.
             	Logs may be submitted for One (1) category only. Example:
		QRP/Club not accepted.
             	Individuals compete against individuals, QRP against QRP and
		Club against Club.

14.
             	Scores will be reported in the NEWS by call area in each of
		the three categories, (Individual, QRP, Club) along with aggregate Chapter
		scores.

Awards:
             	Awards will be made to the top 10 stations world wide. First
		place certificates go to each US Call Area. Alaska is included in Area 7.
		Certificates to Canada, South America, Caribbean (including Bermuda),
		Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Pacific (which includes Australia, New
		Zealand, Hawaii and all other Pacific islands) will be awarded in each
		category.

Logs:
             	Logs are accepted from paid-up 10-10 members only, and must be
		complete and in full compliance with the rules. A cover sheet is required
             	showing name, call, full QTH, 10-10 #s, membership expiration
		date, Chapter assignment (if any), total contacts with and without 10-10#s,
		total multipliers, total points, your home area (which is where you
		operated from. Example: W6XYZ operating while on vacation in Florida, would
             	indicate his home area as 4. JA3ABC would use JA as home
		area.) The back cover of the NEWS satisfies these requirements and is
		highly recommended. If a cover sheet, other than the NEWS is used,
		then it must be accompanied by a copy of the members dues card. A cover
		sheet can be down-loaded from the 10-10 web site. A Dupe sheet must
		accompany ALL logs.


             	Log postmark deadline: August 18, 2000.


             	Send your log to:


                	City of Lights Chapter
                        c/o Joe Dubeck, NA9A
                        P O Box 1383
                        ST. CHARLES, IL 60174
                        USA


Quiet zone:
             	It is requested that 10-10 members have the courtesy to
		observe a "QUIET ZONE" between 28.490 and 28.510 MHz for those to use who
		do not desire to be involved in contesting.