International HELL-Contest by DARC

We have the great pleasure to invite you to join the International 
HELL-Contest. This contest is organizied by Deutscher 
Amateur-Radio-Club (DARC) to incrase interest of HELL mode.

RULES

Test Period: on the first full weekend in the month of October every year
  Saturday:     80 m 1400-1600 UTC
  Sunday:       40 m 0900-1100 UTC
  and the following
  Thursday:    2/0.70 m  1800-2000 UTC

Bands: HF-part: 3.5 and 7 MHz  VHF-part: 144 and 430 MHz

Classes: 1 - HF Single Operator
         2 - HF Short Wave Listener (SWL)
         3 - VHF Single Operator
         4 - VHF Short Wave Listener (SWL)

Modes: all two-way contacts in Hell

Contacts: the same station may be contacted once on each band for QSO
          and multiplier credits

Call:     CQ HELL-TEST

Message:  RST and QSO number starting with 001,
          in class 3 additional QTH-Locator

QSO-Points: HF -part: one point each completed QSO
            VHF-part: one point each kilometers distanz each completed QSO

QTC-traffic: additional score of one point credit for HF-part and ten points
  credit for VHF-part can by achived by giving and reporting a QTC.
  After working a number these QTC can bye reported back during a QSO
  with another station. A QSO my be reported only once and not back to
  the orginating station. A QTC contains the time, call sign, and
  QSO number of the station beiing reported (1214/DF5BX/003).
  A maximum of 5 QTCs can be sent to or received by the same station,
  which can be worked several times to complete this quota.

Multipliers: HF-part: on each band 1 multipliers for each country by the DXCC-
             	and WAE-list and for each call-district in JA, W, VE;
             VHF-part: on each band 1 multiplier each square

Logs:  Please a seperat log for each band.
       Logs must contain: Band, Date, Time UTC, Callsign,
       Message sent and received, Name, QTH, QTH-Locator for VHF-part,
       QTCs, Points and Multipliers.

Scoring:   Sum of the total points of QSO and QTCs multiplying
                by the sum of multipliers from all bands

Deadline: four weeks after the test (postmarked)

Contestmanager: Werner Ludwig, DF5BX, Postfach 1270
                 D-49110 Georgsmarienhuette, Germany

WAE-country-list (by 1th April 1998):
C3, CT1, CU, DL, EA, EA6, EI, ER, ES, EU, F, G, GD, GI, GJ, GM, GM Shet, GU, 
GW, HA, HB, HB0, HV, I, IS, IT, JW Bear, JW Spitz, JX, LA, LX, LY, LZ, 
OE, OH, OH0, OJ0, OK, OM, ON, OY, OZ, PA, R1/FJL, R1/MVI, RA, RA2, S5, 
SM, SP, SV, SV5 Rh, SV9 Cr, SV Mt.Ath, T7, T9, TA1, TF, TK, UR, YL, YO, 
YU, Z3, ZA, ZB2, 1A0, 3A, 4U Gen, 4U Vie, 9A, 9H 



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