EUDX-Contest

RULES

1. Contest sponsors

The EUDXCC is pleased to announce the 3th International EUDX-Contest ‘European-Union Dx Contest’

2. General

a. Aim: It is a world-wide competition: everybody can work everybody
b. Date and time: The contest is held on each first full weekend of February starting at 12.00 UTC Saturday and ending at 12.00 UTC Sunday (24 hours). In 2024 the contest will take place on February 3-4.
c. Categories:

  1. SOAB–MIX-HP – Single Op, All Bands, MIXED,
  2. SOAB–MIX-LP – Single Op, All Bands, MIXED, Low Power (up to 100 watts)
  3. SOAB-MIX-QRP – Single Op, All Bands, MIXED, QRP (up to 5 watts)
  4. SOAB–CW-HP – Single Op, All Bands, CW
  5. SOAB–CW–LP – Single Op, All Bands, CW, Low Power (up to 100 watts)
  6. SOAB–SSB-HP– Single Op, All Bands, SSB
  7. SOAB–SSB-LP – Single Op, All Bands, SSB, Low Power (up to 100 watts)
  8. SOSB – Single Op, single band, MIXED (6 different band entries, separately 160, 80, 40, 20, 15, 10 m)
  9. MOST – Multi Op, All Bands, Single transmitter, MIXED
  10. M/M – Multi Op, multi transmitters, MIXED
  11. Multi-Transmitter Distributed (MULTI-DISTRIBUTED) (*)
  12. SWL-MIXED

(*) multi-Transmitter Distributed category.
Stations operating in this category may have a maximum of six transmitted signals, one per band at any one time, from stations in different locations.
All equipment, including remotely-controlled equipment, must be located in the same DXCC entity and same ITU Zone.

d. For Single-Operator categories, only one signal is permitted at any time. Use of packet cluster, skimmers or any other alerting system is permitted for all entrants. Self spotting or asking other stations to spot you is not allowed.
e. Dual-CQ on the same band is forbitten.
f. For Multi-Operator Multi-TX stations only one transmitted signal per band is permitted.
g. Bands: from 10m through 160m, except WARC bands, are allowed according to IARU Band Plans.

3. QSO Points

a. European Union stations:
QSO with your own country – 2 point,
QSO with another European Union country – 10 points,
QSO with a non-European Union country in your continent – 3 points,
QSO with another continent – 5 points.
b. Non- European Union stations:
QSO with European Union – 10 points,
QSO with your own country – 2 points,
QSO with a different country in your continent – 3 points,
QSO with another continent – 5 points.

4. Exchange

• European Union stations will send RST and a two-letter & two-number code to identify their regions (see point 7).
• Other stations will send RST and ITU zone.

5. Multipliers

• European Union Region: A multiplier of one (1) for each different European Union Region contacted on each band;
• Country: A multiplier of one (1) for each different country contacted on each band. The DXCC entity list, Worked All Europe (WAE) multiplier list plus IG9/IH9, and continental boundaries are the standards for defining country multipliers.

Example: the first QSO with a EU station in a contest band will be worth both as country and as region multiplier.

6. Final Score

  • All stations: the final score is the result of the total QSO points multiplied by the sum of EUR (European Union Region) and country multipliers.
  • Ranking of European Union Stations and of DX Stations will be shown separately.

7. The European Union Regions (by call-area) are the following:

EU Multipliers
AUSTRIA
AT01Vienna
AT02Salzburg
AT03Lower Austria
AT04Burgenland
AT05Upper Austria
AT06Styria
AT07Tyrol
AT08Carinthia
AT09Vorarlberg
BELGIUM
BE01Bruxelles-Capital Region
BE02Walloon Brabant
BE03Flemish Brabant
BE04Antwerp
BE05Limburg
BE06Liège
BE07Namur
BE08Hainaut
BE09Luxemburg
BE10West Flanders
BE11East Flanders
BULGARIA
BG01Severozapaden
BG02Severen tsentralen
BG03Severoiztochen
BG04Yugoiztochen
BG05Yugozapaden
BG06Yuzhen tsentralen
CZECH REPUBLIC
CZ01Prague
CZ02South Bohemia
CZ03South Moravia
CZ04Karlovy Vary
CZ05Hradec Králové
CZ06Liberec
CZ07Moravia-Silesia
CZ08Olomouc
CZ09Pardubice
CZ10Plzeň
CZ11Central Bohemia
CZ12Ustí nad Labem
CZ13Zlín
CZ14Vysočina
CYPRUS
CY01Nicosia
CY02Famagusta
CY03Limassol
CY04Larnaca
CY05Paphos
CROATIA
HR01Central Croatia
HR02Central and Southern Adriatic (Dalmatia)
HR03East Croatia (Slavonia)
HR04North Adria&Lika
HR05North-West Croatia
DENMARK
DK01Region Hovedstaden
DK02Region Midtjylland
DK03Region Nordjylland
DK04Region Sjælland
DK05Region Syddanmark
DK06Overseas Countries and Territories (1)
ESTONIA
EE01Northern Estonia (Harju County)
EE02Western Estonia (Hiiu County, Lääne County, Pärnu County, Saare County)
EE03Central Estonia (Järva County, Lääne-Viru County, Rapla County)
EE04Northeastern Estonia (Ida-Viru County)
EE05Southern Estonia (Jõgeva County, Põlva County, Tartu County, Valga County, Viljandi County, Võru County)
FINLAND
FI01Lapland
FI02North Ostrobothnia
FI03Kainuu
FI04North Karelia
FI05North Savo
FI06South Savo
FI07South Karelia
FI08Central Finland
FI09South Ostrobothnia
FI10Ostrobothnia
FI11Central Ostrobothnia
FI12Pirkanmaa
FI13Satakunta
FI14Päijät-Häme
FI15Kanta-Häme
FI16Kymenlaakso
FI17Uusimaa
FI18Southwest Finland
FI19Åland
FRANCE
FR01Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
FR02Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
FR03Bretagne (Brittany)
FR04Centre-Val de Loire
FR05Corse (Corsica)
FR06Grand Est (Great East)
FR07Hauts-de-France
FR08Île-de-France
FR09Normandie (Normandy)
FR10Nouvelle-Aquitaine (New Aquitaine)
FR11Occitanie
FR12Pays de la Loire
FR13Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur
FR14French Guiana
FR15Guadeloupe
FR16Martinique
FR17Mayotte
FR18La Réunion
FR19Saint Martin
FR20France d’outre-mer (2)
GERMANY
DE01Baden-Württemberg
DE02Bavaria
DE03Berlin
DE04Brandenburg
DE05Bremen
DE06Hamburg
DE07Hesse
DE08Lower Saxony
DE09Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
DE10North Rhine-Westphalia
DE11Rhineland-Palatinate
DE12Saarland
DE13Saxony
DE14Saxony-Anhalt
DE15Schleswig-Holstein
DE16Thuringia
GREECE
GR01Attica
GR02Central Greece
GR03Central Macedonia
GR04Crete
GR05Eastern Macedonia and Thrace
GR06Epirus
GR07Ionian Islands
GR08North Aegean
GR09Peloponnese
GR10South Aegean
GR11Thessaly
GR12Western Greece
GR13Western Macedonia
HUNGARY
HU01Northern Hungary
HU02Northern Great Plain
HU03Southern Great Plain
HU04Central Hungary
HU05Central Transdanubia
HU06Western Transdanubia
HU07Southern Transdanubia
IRELAND
IE01Leinster
IE02Ulster
IE03Munster
IE04Connacht
ITALY
IT01Abruzzo
IT02Aosta Valley
IT03Puglia
IT04Basilicata
IT05Calabria
IT06Campania
IT07Emilia-Romagna
IT08Friuli-Venezia Giulia
IT09Lazio
IT10Liguria
IT11Lombardia
IT12Marche
IT13Molise
IT14Piemonte
IT15Sardegna
IT16Sicilia
IT17Pantelleria/Lampedusa/Linosa, AF
IT18Trentino-Alto Adige
IT19Toscana
IT20Umbria
IT21Veneto
LATVIA
LV01Riga
LV02Kurzeme
LV03Latgale
LV04Zemgale
LV05Vidzeme
LV06Selija
LITHUANIA
LT01North (Šiauliai County, Panevėžys County)
LT02East (Vilnius County, Utena County)
LT03Central (Tauragė County, Kaunas County)
LT04West (Klaipėda County, Telšiai County)
LT05South ( Marijampolė County, Alytus County)
LUXEMBOURG
LX01Luxembourg
MALTA
MT01San Ġwann
MT02Gozo Region
MT03Northern Region
MT04South Eastern Region
MT05Southern Region
THE NETHERLANDS
NL01Drenthe
NL02Flevoland
NL03Friesland
NL04Gelderland
NL05Groningen
NL06Limburg
NL07North Brabant
NL08North Holland
NL09Overijssel
NL10South Holland
NL11Utrecht
NL12Zeeland
NL13Overseas Countries and Territories (3)
POLAND
PL01Greater Poland
PL02Kuyavia-Pomerania
PL03Lesser Poland
PL04Łódź
PL05Lower Silesia
PL06Lublin
PL07Lubusz
PL08Masovia
PL09Opole
PL10Podlaskie
PL11Pomerania
PL12Silesia
PL13Subcarpathia
PL14Holy Cross Province
PL15Warmia-Masuria
PL16West Pomerania
PORTUGAL
PT01Açores
PT02Alentejo
PT03Algarve
PT04Centro
PT05Lisboa e Vale Do Tejo
PT06Madeira, AF
PT07Norte
ROMANIA
RO01Nord-Est development region
RO02Sud-Est development region
RO03Sud – Muntenia development region
RO04Sud-Vest Oltenia development region
RO05Vest development region
RO06Nord-Vest development region
RO07Centru development region
RO08București – Ilfov development region
SLOVAKIA
SK01Bratislava
SK02Trnava
SK03Trenčín
SK04Nitra
SK05Žilina
SK06Banská Bystrica
SK07Prešov
SK08Košice
SLOVENIA
SI01Primorska
SI02Osrednja Slovenija
SI03Koroška
SI04Štajerska
SI05Prekmurje
SI06Ljubljana mesto
SPAIN
ES01Andalusia
ES02Catalonia
ES03Community of Madrid
ES04Valencian Community
ES05Galicia
ES06Castile and León
ES07Basque Autonomous Community
ES08Castilla-La Mancha
ES09Canary Islands , AF
ES10Region of Murcia
ES11Aragon
ES12Extremadura
ES13Balearic Islands
ES14Principality of Asturias
ES15Chartered Community of Navarre
ES16Cantabria
ES17La Rioja
ES18Ceuta, AF
ES19Melilla, AF
SWEDEN
SE01Stockholm
SE02Uppsala
SE03Södermanland
SE04Östergötland
SE05Jönköping
SE06Kronoberg
SE07Kalmar
SE08Gotland
SE09Blekinge
SE10Skåne
SE11Halland
SE12Västra Götaland
SE13Värmland
SE14Örebro
SE15Västmanland
SE16Dalarna
SE17Gävleborg
SE18Västernorrland
SE19Jämtland
SE20Västerbotten
SE21Norrbotten

(1) DK06 Overseas Countries and Territories
Greenland

(2) FR20 France d’outre-mer
French Polynesia
New Caledonia
Wallis-et-Futuna
Saint Barthélemy
Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon
French Southern and Antarctic Lands

(3) NL13 Overseas Countries and Territories
Curaçao
Aruba
Sint Maarten
Bonaire
Saba & Sint Eustatius

8. Dupes

Dupes are contacts made with the same station on the same band and mode. Dupes are worth 0 points.

9. QSO

You can make up to 2 QSO with the same station on the same band – CW and SSB. CW QSOs must be made in the CW portion of the band but only the first QSO is valid for multiplier point in that band.

10. General Note

• All the transmitters and receivers must be located within a circle with 500m maximum radius. All the antennas used by each participant must be physically connected via cables with the transmitters and receivers.
• Remote operation is permitted if the physical location of all transmitters, receivers, and antennas are at one station location. (for example: If a station from Eu has a remote station in Bahamas and he works with his Eu callsign – this is not permitted. If a station from Eu has a remote station in Bahamas and he uses an C6 callsign – this is legal remote)
• The using of WEB Clusters and Packet radio systems are allowed to all participants.
• Using transmitters and receivers from different locations connected via internet is considered to be unsportsmanlike and it is one of the reason for disqualification.
• Self-spotting on clusters is not permitted.
• Requesting QSOs via phone, telegrams, internet, radio packet during the contest is considered to be self-spotting and is not allowed, leading disqualification.
• The participants in the Single Operator category are allowed to change bands and operating modes without restrictions. However, only one single signal is permitted to be “on the air” at the same time.
• The MOST stations must obey the “10 minutes rule”. Time spent in one band starts to count from the moment when the first QSO is done in that band. Only one single signal is permitted to be “on the air” at the same time.

11. Definitions

• Single Operator: are those stations under which a single person is in charge with the following duties: operate the radio station, QSO logging and spotting. There is no limit on operating time or band changes.
• All the MIXT categories can operate with the same station both in CW and SSB. Qso contacts in CW within the SSB band segments and vice versa are forbidden.
• Multi-Single: Only one transmitted signal on one band is permitted during any 10-minute period (run station/signal). Exception: the station worked is a new multiplier. The run and multiplier transmitters are governed by independent 10-minute rules.
• Multi-Multi: The six contest bands may be activated simultaneously. Only one transmitted signal per band is permitted at any time.

12. Logs

• Logs are accepted only in CABRILLO electronic format 3.0
• Participants pursuing a ranking in the top 3 in any of the categories listed at point 2 are required to enter in the log the exact frequency of each QSO performed (using a CAT system), having as a minimum unit 1 kHz. The ranking in the Top 3 for any of the categories of participation will be validated only under the conditions of entering in the log the exact frequency of each QSO, or by making available to the referees the audio recording of the period of participation in the contest.
• Checklogs are accepted.

13. Log Submission

• All the Logs must be sent to the contest organizers in maximum 7 (seven) days from the end of the competition. (No later than 2024-02-11 12:00:00)
• Each Log will be confirmed via e-mail as well as by placing it in the “List of the received Logs” on the specified webpage.

14. Awards

• Plaques and printed diplomas will be awarded for the first places of each category listed at the Point 2.c depending on the sponsors. Electronic pdf diploma will be awarded fot all participants.

15. Penalties and disqualifications

• Logs will be carefully checked by the Contest Committee and mistakes may cause a score reduction. There are no penalties applied to erroneous QSOs, but unsportsmanlike conduct may lead to disqualification. Unsportsmanlike conduct may be found in the LOG data as well in any other recording mean available to the Committee.
• All Contest Committee decisions are official and final.

16. Implicit Declaration:

By submitting an entry in the EU-DX Contest you agree that:
• you have read and understood the rules of the contest and agree to be bound by them;
• you have operated according to all the rules and regulations of your country that pertain to amateur radio;
• your log entry may be made open to the public;
• all actions and decisions of the EU-DX Contest Committee are official and final.

On behalf of The EU-DX Contest Committee

 IK6QON Francesco (ik6qon@gmail.com)

A big thanks to all friends that helped us with their advices in order to improve this contest rules, and to those who worked to upgrad the logging contest softwares to include the EUDX Contest.

Please for any error please contact the contest committee.

We are trying to correct all the possible errors. Thank you.

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