Light summer wood: IITI SUMMER RACE 2022
The host of Iitti is organizing an easy but still small business summer competition to activate LW-MW-SW listening during the quiet summer holiday season. All participants have access to identical radios, antennas and locations!
The competition period is from midsummer to the end of July, 22.6. - 31.7. 2022 UTC.
Objective: To hear and identify stations from as many continents as possible, at as many different megahertz (0-27) and using as many different remote receivers as possible.
1) Collect as many continents as possible. The participating Continents are: Europe, Africa, Asia, Oceania, South America and North America. Antarctica decided to skip. The location of the transmitter is decisive. Example: NHK / Woofferton is Europe.
2) Collect as many different megahertz as possible. Example: You have heard frequencies 225, 648, 1215, 1358, 5995, 6005 and 6120kHz => So you have heard stations in megahertz 0, 1, 5 and 6 => Four different megahertz. Frequencies are not tricky: If a station has a listed frequency of 1000kHz but has an -15Hz offset, it is considered to be 1000kHz. Any harmonic multiples, mixing results, etc. - are invalid.
3) Use as many different remote receivers as possible. However, this does not mean that the same stations should be heard on more than one receiver. Eligible remote receivers are listed in the list "Official Finnish listening stations of the Finnish DX Association and members or member associations" maintained by Peksu PSO, which is available at
https://bit.ly/Kesäkisa_2022If the selection changes during the competition, all those who have been mentioned in the list at the time of listening will be eligible. Iitti is not in a special position but one among the others.
4) Only radio stations - no weather services, utilities, etc. Pirates are valid but you shouldn't be fooled by cooperating with them.
5) If there are any deficiencies in the rules or logs, the jury or the host of the competition will resolve them in the way they deem best. The jury doesn't do a plethora of investigations - so the shots should be sure, clear and undisputed.
Score: Number of different continents [times] Number of different megahertz [times] Number of different remote receivers.
Example: You have heard stations from Europe, Asia and South America. You have heard stations with megahertz 0, 1, 3, 4, 6, 9 and 15. You have heard stations using Lohja, Kotka EC1, Raisio and Virtain remote listening stations. Calculation: 3 X 7 X 4 = 84 points.
In possible draw points, the number of more reported goes ahead.
Participants must send a list by e-mail of the identifications they wish to consider by Thursday 4.8. By 2022 to the summer race @ ... - remember the necessity of this, only then have you participated.
In addition to the log lines, the e-mail must also include the participant's calculation of the number of continents, megahertz, and remote receivers he hears. All you have to do is report the lots that are relevant to the scoring. Shocks should include the station name, continent, frequency, date, time, and remote receiver used for listening. Excel spreadsheets are also valid, preferably.
The prizes are the most special:
1: Genuine B-17 Flying Fortress, B-24 Liberator, and B-29 Superfortress used in secret radio destruction switch: "Danger. To Destroy special radio press both buttons simultaneously."
2: Japanese crystal machine Germaphone MG-304 from about 1960. Unused!
3: A framed, glazed photograph depicting Alexandr Popov next to his antenna on Suursaari in 1900. The image has been the property of YLE and hung at least on the wall of the Fabianinkatu radio house.
The results will be announced and prizes will be mailed to the winners after the competition. If the count goes well, the matter will be glowed at the Association's summer meeting.
The contest is also open for Non-Finnish participants resided anywhere, although the rules above are published in Finnish only.
