Organized by the SWL section of the VERON

Attention: the scoring rule (9), has been changed !

Purpose of the contest:
A.    To activate the 10 meter amateur band.
B.    SWL's: to log as much as possible DXCC-countries, USA-states and Canadian provinces on the 10 meterband.


Rules:

1.    Contestperiod: 11 December 2010, 00:00 UTC until 12 December 2010, 24:00 UTC.  This contest period meets the ARRL 10 meter contest.
 
2.    The contest is open to all SWL worldwide.

3.    Two categories:
        A.  Single operator phone (SSB)
        B.  Single operator CW.

4.    It is allowed to participate in both categories. In that case two separate logs are obligatory.

5.    Of every DXCC-country (except USA and Canada), every USA-state en every Canadian province only three stations count for the points: the first station is valid 5 points, the second 3 points and the third station 1 point.

6.    The contest log has to consist of the columns:  Date (YYMMDD), UTC (HHMM), Station heard, RS(T) by the heard station, reported group (Nr,State or Province),Working station,Points,DXCC (except USA en Canada), USA-state or Canadian province.  The stations in the USA report the state abbreviation and the Canadian stations the province abbreviation. The other stations report the goup as a 3 or 4 figures group. See the log example below. Attention: If the log has been created in the Cabrillo Format, the colums "Points", "DXCC" and "State/Province" may be omitted. A splendid computer program for generating the Cabrillo format is "SWL DQR Log", made by SP7DQR and downloadable from: swl.veron.nl/swlcontest.

7.    Only heard stations working in the ARRL 28MHz Contest are valid for the points and multipliers.

8.    The 5 minutes rule is applicable: the same corresponding station may appear in the log again after at least 5 minutes.

9.    The total score is the result of the calculation: points x (DXCC + states/provinces).

10.    The log has to be sent ultimately on 31 January 2011 to the contest manager: Ruud Ivens, NL290, Hittekamp 29, 3956 RE Leersum, The Netherlands, or by E-mail to NL290(at)veron.nl .

11.    E-mail logs will be accepted in the formats: Plain text, EXCEL, WORD, HTML and Cabrillo.

12.   The overall winner in each category (SSB, CW) will receive the winner's prize and for the first place in each country a certificate will be awarded.