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| 1 | Contest Times |
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| | 20:00 - 21:00 UTC. The contest ends 1 second after 20:59:59. QSOs logged at 21:00 or later will not count. |
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| 2 | Modes / Frequencies |
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| | CW 3510-3560 kHz SSB 3600-3775 kHz
Note - the IARU recommends 3600-3650 and 3700-3775 as SSB contest preferred. |
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| 3 | Exchange |
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| | Participants are encouraged to work only stations participating in the contest.
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| | Your log should only include exchange information received over the air.
Do NOT insert missing locators from external websites or other off-the-air sources.
Only the locator is required in the exchange. A signal report is not required - 59(PH) or 599(CW) is assumed. |
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| 4 | Callsigns |
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| 4.1 | Your normal station callsign or any special contest callsign issued to you by your national licensing authority may be used.
Any previous or new callsigns used by team members in the Teams Competition (see section 6.3) will be linked together. |
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| 4.2 | UK entrants must use the correct Regional Secondary Locator to clearly identify which of the seven UK DXCC entities their station is located in. Stations operating from England may use the optional RSL -E- if desired. |
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| 5 | Sections |
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| 5.1 | High Power - the maximum permitted by the entrants licence or 1500 watts, whichever is the lower. |
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| 5.2 | Low Power - maximum 100 watts output. |
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| 5.3 | QRP - maximum 5 watts output. |
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| | Checklogs are not accepted. Even if you only make a few QSOs, please submit an entry. |
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| 6 | Operator Categories |
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| 6.1 | Single Operator Assisted: When the entrant, at any time during the contest, for the purpose of finding, facilitating, or making QSOs, either
(a) connects, or is connected, to any network crossing the boundary of the entrants station or,
(b) uses any multi-channel decoder e.g. local skimmer or,
(c) uses any method of communication other than RF corresponding to the frequencies and/or mode(s) of the entry or,
(d) uses self-spotting or,
(e) uses contest logging auto-fill capability. |
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| 6.2 | Single Operator Unassisted: When none of the Assisted conditions apply. One aim of these contests is to improve operating skill, which is not necessarily the outcome of using the DXCluster, Skimmer, or RBN. Please consider entering the Unassisted category. |
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| 6.3 | Teams Competion overlay: These 80m contests are primarily single-operator events, but we offer an optional and additional Teams Competion overlay. Individual entrants may form a team of three entrants with one reserve (i.e., a team of four, but only the highest three scores count in each contest), and these results are shown on the Teams Competiton webpage. Teams may be formed and registered by email to team@ukeicc.com until the end of November. |
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| 6.4 | Entries in all six Sections/Operator Categories (sections 6.1 and 6.2 above) will be listed together in the Results, and also in six separate Section/Operator lists. Separate certificates will be awarded to the winners in each of the six entry categories. The Results will also show UK/EI entrants and DX entrants separately, listed by DXCC entity, with separate certificates being awarded. |
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| 6.5 | Self-spotting - Assisted entries in UKEICC CW and SSB 80m contests may spot their own station on the DX cluster. Self-spots may be made when first soliciting QSOs on a new frequency and thereafter no more frequently than every 10 minutes. Asking another party to spot your station places you in the Assisted category. |
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| 7 | Antennas |
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| | No limits |
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| 8 | Logging Software |
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| | Most contest software logging packages now support these contests.
However, you should check in advance that you can log 6-character grid locators correctly.
This is a sample of the correct Cabrillo format for logging software packages for the UKEICC 80m contests :
START-OF-LOG: 3.0
LOCATION: DX
CALLSIGN:G4PVM
CLUB:ESSEX CW ARC
CONTEST:UKEICC-80MCW
CATEGORY-POWER:HIGH
CATEGORY-ASSISTED:ASSISTED
CLAIMED-SCORE:86
OPERATORS:G4PVM
NAME:Paul
EMAIL:
QSO: 3523 CW 2026-01-07 2005 G4PVM 599 JO01FR M4T 599 IO82RJ
QSO: 3522 CW 2026-01-07 2005 G4PVM 599 JO01FR DK2FG 599 JO41OR
QSO: 3522 CW 2026-01-07 2006 G4PVM 599 JO01FR M3E 599 JO01BV
QSO: 3510 CW 2026-01-07 2007 G4PVM 599 JO01FR G5GEI 599 IO94FA
QSO: 3511 CW 2026-01-07 2009 G4PVM 599 JO01FR SM5S 599 JO89FK
END-OF-LOG
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| 9 | Scoring |
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| 9.1 | Entries from Russian Federation and Belarus stations are not currently accepted.
Entrants making QSOs with stations in the Russian Federation and Belarus will be awarded points. |
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| 9.2 | The number of points awarded for each contact depends on the distance between the two stations. This is computed by taking the distance between the centres of the two grid squares.
i.e. 0 - 500 km = 1 point
501 - 1000 km = 2 points
1001 - 1500 km = 3 points etc.
For example, a QSO with a station 1850 km away scores 4 points.
The maximum distance points for any QSO = 10pts (5000km). |
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| 9.3 | As part of the adjudication process, if your QSO is with a Low Power or QRP station (i.e. you were the receiving station in that QSO), your points (for that QSO) are multiplied by the following factors :
Low Power - distance points are multiplied by 2
QRP - distance points are multiplied by 4
No multiplication factor will be applied to QSOs with stations that did not submit an entry, or to QSOs with any station signing /QRP or /LP. |
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| 9.4 | QSOs with either (or both) of the Bonus Stations, which may or may not be active in every contest, count for 15 points each, irrespective of distance or power level.
The Bonus Station callsigns will be G5GEI (or GW5GEI, GM5GEI, etc) and EI5G.
These stations will RUN only (depending on QRM they may have to QSY), so entrants should make an effort to find them which potentially boosts an entrants score by 30 points maximum. |
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| 10 | Entries |
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| 10.1 | Cabrillo logs are required, clearly showing your Section, Operator Category and sent exchange that includes your sent locator exactly the same as what you were sending over the air.
N1MM+ users, please ensure you use the new .udc file and make sure you enter *your* locator in the setup field.
Your Cabrillo log must be received by the online server within one hour of the contest end time.
The online log submission page (click on the link below) will ask you to confirm which Section and Operator Category you are entering.
The Cabrillo files produced after the contest may contain 59(9) reports even though they are not exchanged on-air during the contest, and will be ignored during the adjudication process.
It does not matter if the Cabrillo log does not show points for each QSO or an overall claimed score. |
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| | Upload your Cabrillo log |
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| 10.2 | By entering this contest, you agree to your logfile and the associated UBN file created after the log-checking procedures being available in the public domain. |
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| 10.3 | Entries from stations attempting to indicate their power level by e.g. signing /QRP or /LP at any time during the contest will not be accepted. |
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| 10.4 | The log submission deadline, via the log submission robot, is 22:00z i.e., within one hour after end of the contest. |
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| | The *provisional* results of each monthly contest will be announced on this UKEICC website as soon as possible after the one hour log submission deadline. (Many thanks to Tree N6TR, Mike G3WPH and Pete G4CLA for their software work.) |
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| 11 | Penalties |
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| 11.1 | Callsign and/or exchange logging errors in any QSO will result in the loss of points to the value of your average points per QSO value (as calculated from your final unchecked score) times TWO. There are currently no penalties for Not-in-Logs. |
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| 11.2 | Following the completion of the automated log-checking procedures, you will be emailed your UBN/LCR file for that contest. Please note that due to the short log-submission time and the fast production of results, no appeals can be made. However, we reserve the right to retrospectively rescore logfiles if necessary. |
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| 11.3 | QSOs with Unique callsigns will not be penalised, but any logfile showing a higher than normal number of Uniques will be scrutinised and penalties may be applied. |
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| | Version 64 (Mark G4MEM) : 22nd August 2026 E&OE |
