The organizer of contest is the Russian section of European PSK club. The Russian contest on radio short waves communications Russian WW PSK Contest by using the BPSK mode is conducted according to the present Rules annually to penultimate week-end of February.

We invite all fans of digital modes to take part in contest from 21.00 UTC on Friday 15th February till 21:00 UTC on Saturday 16th February, 2013. Types of modulation: BPSK31, 63, 125. The repeated contacts are permitted on different bands and different modes providing that a contact will be made not earlier than in 3 minutes. The output power should not exceed 10 watts on 160 meters and 100 watts on other bands. The operator may change the bands without any restrictions. Only one transmitted signal is permitted at any time. Bands: 160 m, 80 m, 40 m, 20 m, 15 m, 10 m.

The First Russian PSK WW Contest took place in 2003. MSSTVs Club was the initiator of that contest. The contest passed in PSK31 mode and only 64 participants sent the reports. The first contest was not prepared technically. There was neither Contest Committee nor proper working software. All that appeared only two years later in 2005. Viktor Kosobokov R3BB managed to write DLL under MixW, afterwards contest committee program was developed. The First winners were: 1st place - RX9SN, 2nd place - UA4FCO, 3rd place - UU4J. Later on the contest became popular and it entered all contest calandaries. In 2011 the Russian section of European PSK Club has carried on MSSTVs Club's work to organize Russian WW PSK Contest. We invite all amateurs of digital modes and our club-mates in particular to struggle for prizes, awards and contest certificates, and just simply work in your pleasure, having gained at the same time the points to radio amateur EPC Awards.

See you later in Russian WW PSK Contest 2013!

Date and Time:

Starting time is at 21:00 UTC on Friday 15.02.2013 and ending time is at  21:00 UTC on Saturday 16.02.2013.

Objective:

- popularization of the digital modes of amateur contacts in Russia;
- determination of the most stronger sportsmen of the country and the world;
- increasing the skill of the participants.

Modes and samples of signals:

The output power should not exceed 10 watts on 160 meters and 100 watts on other bands. Only one signal is allowed at any one time.

Bands: 
Contest participants are allowed to work on 160 meters (1.8 MHz), 80 meters (3.5 MHz), 40 meters (7 MHz), 20 meters (14 MHz), 15 meters (21 MHz) and 10 meters (28 MHz). EPC recommends the following frequencies - 1.840 - 1.843 MHz, 3.582 - 3.590, 7.040 - 7.050 MHz, 14.072 - 14.080 MHz, 21.072 - 21.080 MHz, 28.072 - 28.080 MHz.

Categories:

SOAB  - Single operator, all bands.
MOAB  - Club stations.
SOSB  - Single operator, one band.

Note: The participants can be declared only one subgroup.

Note MOAB: One - three operators with their personal or SWL callsigns can form a team. Personal callsigns should be necessarily specified. Each participant younger than 20 years in subgroup MOAB will be awarded a certificate for participation in the contest.

Number Exchange:

The Russian participants should send RST(Q) plus 2-letter abbreviation of Russian Area (oblast) Code (example for Moscow region – 599 MA).  Foreign participants should send RST(Q) plus QSO number, starting 001 (example - 599 001). The numeration on bands is current. General call - "CQ RUTEST".

The repeated contacts are permitted on different bands and different modes providing that a contact will be made not earlier than in 3 minutes. The contact with correspondent who has not sent the report can be accepted if the callsign of the correspondent can be met not less than in three different reports.

Points:
Each contact between stations on 20, 15 and 10 m is worth:
- inside the country - 1 point;
- with other country - 3 points;
- with other continents - 5 points.
The points on 160, 80 and 40 m are doubled.

Multiplier:

The multiplier are the countries according to the list of DXCC and Russian areas on each band.

Scoring:

The final score is the result of the total points multiplied by the sum of multipliers.

Plaques and Awards:

Participants who got in DQ will not receive the awards, as well as those who sent reports for check (checklog). Therefore, we advise you to be necessarily declared in subgroups and not break the rules of our contest.

All prizewinners will be sent only one award (in jpg format) for the higher of occupied rewarded places by e-mail.

Log Instructions: 

PSK modes in Cabrillo file must be identified as follows:

BPSK31   - PS

BPSK63   - PM

BPSK125 - PO

Name your Cabrillo file as your callsign (for example – R3BB.cbr, R3BB.log or R3BB.txt). You may send your log only via the Web interface: http://ua9qcq.com/contests/submit_log_eng.php   This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

All logs must be sent no later than 5 days after the contest.

SAMPLE of CABRILLO:  

Address of Log report:
You should send your log upload via the Web interface: http://ua9qcq.com/contests/submit_log_eng.php

Last date of Log report:
23:59 UTC 21^st February 2013 

Allowed correspondents:
Amateur radio operators from Russia and other countries of the world may participate in the competition.

Disqualification:

The Contest Committee will use the mechanism of monitoring of air for the purpose of revealing of the participants who operate with exceeding of admissible IMD norms, creating considerable QRM and breaking the Rules of the given competitions.

The basis for disqualification can be:

1. The operation with excess of admissible bandwidth of BPSK31,63,125 signal  due to overloads, intermodulation, harmonics of a sound card and other reasons. The Contest Committee will declare DQ to participants who will be recorded twice in a time interval not less than 15 minutes with quality of transmitting signal on scale Q<7: http://www.rsq-info.net/RSQ-Reporting-Table.html and worth, with inadmissible bandwidth of signal in Hz visible on “waterfall” and under condition of presence of a level of air noise on the time-and-frequency diagram.

2. The excess of the output power stipulated by given Rules.

3. The use for transmitting of a control number not corresponding to the Rules of contest.

4. Unsporting behaviour during contest.

The results of the infringers will be cancelled. The appeals are not accepted!

Software for working in contest:

Russian WW PSK Contest is supported with the following software:

- MixW от UT2UZ  www.mixw.net .

  DLL for this contest to download here: http://www.digitalrus.ru/Files/StatsRUSWWPSK.zip    

   Adjusting MixW for RUS-WW-PSK (eng): http://www.epc-ru.ru/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=568&Itemid=192   

- RCKLog от DL4RCK  www.dl4rck.de

- N1MM  www.n1mm.com

- UR5EQF_log от UR5EQF  www.ur5eqf.com

- AATest от RZ4AG  www.dxsoft.com

- 5MContest от UT7MA  http://5mcontest.qrz.ru

When preparing to the contest read the items of Russian WW PSK Contest 2012 Rules attentively and do not make mistakes when you work on the air or make up a report. Before sending a report file in Cabrillo format, please compare it to the sample and check the identity of modes to PS, PM, PO.

Please check up whether "head" of the report is made properly, if there are test subgroup or subgroups, your address, e-mail and all other data in it. At reception of the report you receive the standard answer from the post robot.

We wish you great success and enjoyable participation in our contest!