Winter St.-Petersburg Open VHF Contest

Association of radioamateurs of Saint-Petersburg (ALRS) hereby invites
all licensed radio amateurs to participate in VHF contest.

1. Period.
February 16, 2013, 15:00-19:00 UTC.

2. Participants.
All licensed radio amateurs. Every competitor should make at least one contact with
Saint-Petersburg city or it's region (Leningradskaya oblast).

Any callsign of Saint-Petersburg and it's region consist of any russian prefix, digit "1"
and then the first letter of suffix must be one of "A"-"M".
For example UA1DZ, UA1MU, RK1AA, RO1A, RX1CD, UA1CKC.

3. Bands and modes.
144, 432 and 1296 MHz: CW, SSB and FM in accordance with IARU Region 1 bandplan. 12,5 kHz channel spacing in FM is recommended.

4. Contacts.
Duplicate contacts are allowed on different bands.
Mixed, EME, MS and repeater contacts are not allowed.
Skeds are allowed.

5. Exchange.
RS(T), serial number of contact and QTH-locator, for example 599 001 KO59EX. Real RST reporting is recommended.

6. Points.
1 point for each kilometer of the distance between stations. If distance is less than 1 km then also 1 point. Additional points for each new WWL are NOT counted. Points on 432 MHz are multiplied by 2, and on 1296 MHz by 4.

7. Classes.

    B1. All bands, all modes.

    B3. 144MHz, all modes.

8. Logs.
Only electronic logs are accepted. Logs in EDI (REG1TEST) format are preferred. Otherwise you can use the template in Microsoft Word format from contest website: http://alrs.info/downloads.php?cat_id=2&download_id=4

Every repeated log sending is subject to penalty in 10% of total points.

Deadline for logs is 24:00 UTC February 26, 2013.
Log submission implies a signed declaration that all contest rules and national amateur radio regulations have been observed.

9. Log checking.
Contacts are not counted in the cases:
- no log of another station (but logs of these stations may be modelled by the log checking sofware);
- errors in time, mode, callsigns, exchange numbers and/or QTH-locators.

Estimated date of publication of preliminary results is March 1, 2013.
The decision of the Contest Committee is final.

10. Awarding.
The winner in B1 group will be awarded with the cup, prizers and winner in B3 group will be awarded with medals or equivalent award. All other participants will be awarded with certificates.

11. Submissions.
E-mail for logs and questions: vhf@alrs.info
Web: http://www.alrs.info/vhf