INORC Contest 3rd and 4th December 2016
Rules XXXVI Contest INORC 3/4 December 2016
The Italian Naval Old Rhythmers Club (INORC), which brings together Italian and foreign radio amateurs from the Navy and Merchant Navy, and other amateur radio enthusiasts and active in CW, promotes and organizes the thirty-sixth edition of the Contest INORC.
1. TRANSMISSION MODE: only CW
2. AIM: It is a World-wide contest, everybody can works everybody.
3. DATE AND BANDS: from 12.00 UTC on Saturday until 11.59 UTC on Sunday. In 2016: 3 and 4
December. Bands 10/15/20/40/80.
4. CATEGORIES: there are 3 categories: N = Navals; I= Indipendents; S= SWL
Notes:
N= OM enrolled in INORC or other equivalent club: MARAC, MF, RNARS, etc.
I= OM of any country, not enrolled in Naval Club, and therefore considered “Independent”.
The categories mentioned are only single operator/single RTX. Only one signal is permitted at any time. Use of packet cluster is permitted for all entrants, but Self spotting or asking other stations to spot you is not allowed.
5. CALL: CQ INORC, TEST INORC.
The station enrolled in Naval Club (cat. N) can use in calling suffix /N to be immediately recognizable. This obviously does not change the name, which in the logs should always be shown without the “/ N”. If in log is present “/N”, will be considered error.
6. EXCHANGES:
-Members of INORC or other Naval Club will pass the RST report followed by the club’s code and the number.
-Non-members (Independent) will pass the RST report followed by a sequential number starting with 001.
7. POINTS QSO:
For all participants, Naval or Independent:
– QSOs with INORC stations and other Naval Club are worth 10 points.
– QSOs with other stations (Independent) are worth 1 point.
– QSOs in 20-15-10 meter band will double points (Naval station 20 points and
independents 2 point).
– The same station may be worked once per band.
8. MULTIPLIERS:
INORC stations or other Naval Club are multipliers. Can be counted as a multiplier ONCE independently of the bands on which they were working.
9. FINAL SCORE : Is obtained by multiplying the sum of the “points” to the sum of “multipliers”.
10. SWL:
The same rules of OM, but the submission of log MUST be submitted within 48 hours after the end of the contest (00:00 UTC dec 6, 2016):
– Listening to a NAVAL station is worth 10 points;
– Listening to an independent station is worth 1 point;
– The same station may be counted only once per band;
– Multipliers are all Naval stations listened, counted only once, independently of band. In the log you must also specify the corresponding of the radio station.
NB: SWL logs are very welcome. To be ranked in the category does not require a minimum of receptions, but the Contest Manager deems worthy of mention Logs that reveal a particular diligence by SWL.
11.LOG SUBMISSION:
Logs should be sent to the Contest Manager no later than Sunday 11 December 2016 in Cabrillo format to: IK1YBL@ALICE.IT. There are no accepted log in a different format and are no accepted paper log. The log must contain all the necessary data, both the participating station that the QSO played: participant’s name, the name used, class participation, a declaration of compliance with the rules, and, for the QSO, date , UTC time, band, station worked, full report given, full report received. The QSO should be listed in chronological order. The scoring is optional, because all the logs are analyzed and the score recalculated. Software “QARTest” by IK3QAR (www.ik3qar.it), and “Test-INORC” by our member IK1YBL (www.webalice.it/ik1ybl/
NB: All electronic log received AFTER the Dec 11 will automatically be considered CONTROL LOG.
Are welcome comments and images, which will be published on the INORC website, together with the Final Rank.
12. DISQUALIFICATION : In the opinion of the Contest Manager will be penalized or disqualified competitors who send incomplete Logs, with high content of unverifiable QSOs or that do not result in bilateral cross-checks.
There will also be disqualified competitors as INORC members, found not to comply with the payment of the annual fee. Logs will be carefully checked by the Contest Committee and mistakes may cause a score reduction. There are no penalties applied to erroneous QSO, but unsportsmanlike conduct may lead to disqualification of the entry.
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.
13. RANK: There are three different classifications for the following categories:
N= Stations belonging to a Naval Club
I = Independent stations
S= SWL stations
14.PRIZES: Will be awarded the 1st, 2nd, 3rd place in Naval and independent categories, and 1st place in the category SWL.
15. IMPLICIT DECLARATION: By submitting your log in the INORC Contest you agree that:
a) you have read and understood the rules of the contest and agree to be bound by them;
b) you have operated according to all the rules and regulations of your country that pertain
to amateur radio;
c) your log entry may be made open to the public;
d) all actions and decisions of the INORC Contest MANAGER are official and final.
16. INORC AWARD: If the qso in the logs respect the rules of INORC AWARD (please contact Secretary INORC), it’s possible to receive the award. Costs or IRC (contact Secretary INORC).
Below some example of Cabrillo accepted.
NAVAL (Cabrillo 3.0 format):
START-OF-LOG: 3.0
CONTEST: INORC
CALLSIGN:
CATEGORY-OVERLAY: NAVAL
NAME:
ADDRESS:
ADDRESS-CITY: ADDRESS-POSTALCODE:
ADDRESS-COUNTRY:
EMAIL:
QSO:
QSO:
NAVAL (Cabrillo 2.0 format):
START-OF-LOG: 2.0
CONTEST: INORC
CALLSIGN:
CATEGORY-OVERLAY: NAVAL
NAME:
ADDRESS:
EMAIL:
QSO:
QSO:
INDEPENDENT (Cabrillo 3.0 format):
START-OF-LOG: 3.0
CONTEST: INORC
CALLSIGN:
CATEGORY-OVERLAY: INDEPENDENT
NAME:
ADDRESS:
ADDRESS-CITY:
ADDRESS-POSTALCODE:
ADDRESS-COUNTRY:
EMAIL:
QSO:
QSO:
INDEPENDENT (Cabrillo 2.0 format):
START-OF-LOG: 2.0
CONTEST: INORC
CALLSIGN:
CATEGORY-OVERLAY: INDEPENDENT
NAME:
ADDRESS:
EMAIL:
QSO:
QSO:
SWL (Cabrillo 3.0 format):
START-OF-LOG: 3.0
CONTEST: INORC
CALLSIGN:
CATEGORY-TRANSMITTER: SWL
NAME:
ADDRESS:
ADDRESS-CITY:
ADDRESS-POSTALCODE:
ADDRESS-COUNTRY:
EMAIL:
QSO:
QSO:
SWL (Cabrillo 2.0 format):
START-OF-LOG: 2.0
CONTEST: INORC
CALLSIGN:
CATEGORY: SWL
NAME:
EMAIL:
QSO:
QSO: