4th Himalayan Contest 2009

Date: 31st October 2009 1200 UTC (1730 IST) to 1st November 2009 1200 UTC(1730 IST).

This contest is open for VU QSOs only. Regular/Occasional Net controllers, Organisers of this contest, are not ELIGIBLE FOR ANY PRIZES. They may, however, take part and send their logs to help the participants.

RULES :

- Bands: 1.8 to 28 MHz except WARC and VHF/UHF.

- Modes: CW, SSB, Mixed. - Contest Call: VUs call “CQ Himalaya” in SSB and “CQ HC” in CW.

- Category: Single Operator Single Band CW or SSB or Mixed.

Single Operator Multi Bands CW or SSB or Mixed

- SWLs: Multiband CW or SSB or Mixed - Exchange: VUs give “six digit PIN code” combination to VUs.

- Restriction: A particular VU can be worked only once in any band irrespective of Mode.

- Only VU-VU QSOs. If you work VU2ABC on 7 cw, no need to work him again on any other band or mode.

- Scoring: Every QSO with a unique PIN code is 1 point.

- All VUs located in States like JK,HP,UP,SK,WB,AS,AR count for 5 points each. They have either the foothills or the Himalayan range in their State.

- Bonus: Every CW QSO gives 5 points Bonus.

- SWLs: VU SWLs must report complete 2-way QSOs of contest stations. Every station can be
logged only once.

- A complete QSO between VU and VU gives 5 points on any band.
- Multipliers: Every unique exchange which a VU station gives is a multiplier.

Example: 600042,602002,615003, 695403,560075,571313 etc are different multipliers.

A multiplier is counted only once for all bands taken together.

Final Score: It is the (sum of QSO points from individual band/bands) multiplied by the (sum of multipliers from individual band/bands)

Logs: Mark each log sheet with your call sign and category. Kindly send your logs by POST ONLY, to the
Contest Manager VU2UR Arasu,
MIG-6, 80 Feet Road,
Kengeri Upanagara,
Bangalore 560060,
India,
before the 20th November 2009

Awards to be issued: - For VU stations, top three in every category get certificates. - For VU SWLs, suitable certificates are going to be issued.

Any feed back regarding this contest, may please be sent to: gopal.madhavan @ gmail.com and vu2ur @ rediffmail.com.

vy 73, Namaste de Arasu VU2UR

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