PRO DIGI CONTEST (PDC)
2024
5nd edition
RULES
SUMMARY
start : Saturday, January 20,2024 at
12:00 UTC
end: Sunday, January 21, 2024 at 11:59 UTC (24 hours)
bands: 80/40/20/15/10m (3.580-3.590, 7.040-7.050,
14.070-14.080, 21.070-21.080, 28.070-28.080)
mode: RTTY
( PDC 2025=FT4)
categories: M,
MO,
SO-HP,
SO-LP,
SO-SB, (SO10,
SO15, SO20, SO40, SO80)
CL,
SWL
reports
nonmembers: RST + serial number starting with 001 (E.g.
599 001)
report members(M) : RST +
serial number starting
with 001 + particle
/M (members of any DIGI-club) (E.g. 599 001/M
)
scoring: 1p for QSO
with own DXCC
2p for QSO with another
DXCC
2p bonus for a non-member in the
case of a QSO with a member Digi club
6p bonus for QSO
between two members of any Digi clubs
multipliers: different
prefix on each band, except all prefix from own DXCC
Logs deadline: Sunday, Jan. 28 at 23:59
UTC at digi@procontestclub.ro
preliminary scores: Monday,
Jan.29 until 10:00 UTC
Contestations are accepted
only on Jan.29 until 23:59 UTC
official results: Tuesday,
January 30, 2024 until 10:00 UTC.(or after resolving the
appeals if they exist)
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Organized by PRO-DIGI-CONTEST-CLUB, Romania
1. Object
Making radio QSOs with as
many stations as possible in digi-mode.
With the same station, only one valid QSO
can be made on each band.
2. Contest Period
Every year, the third full
weekend of January,
start Saturday at 12:00 UTC until Sunday
at 11:59:59 UTC. (24 hours)
3. Mode
RTTY
( 2025=FT4)
4. Bands
80, 40, 20, 15 and
10meter, (3.580 – 3.590
MHz, 7.040 – 7.050
MHz, 14.070 – 14.080 MHz, 21.070 – 21.080 MHz and
28.070 – 28.080 MHz)
5. Contest call
"TEST PDC" or "CQ PDC"
6. Entry Categories
M
= members of any digital mode club, multiband,
a single TX, any autorized power for this mode.
Competitors from this category will transmit as
follows:
For the RTTY
contests: RST +
serial number starting with
001 + particle /M (E.g.
RST 001/M ).
If you submit the control in the form
above must participate in category M
(Members),
and the Cabrillo log will specify the name of the digital mode
Club which also includes the
membership number
(not clubs of
other mode of working) and in the log will be entered e.g. CLUB: PDCC # 2.
- If you send the control in the form
of ex.569 001/M or 579 /M you must
participate in category M (Members).
- The members of the digi mode club are
not obliged to participate in the M category, but in
this case they will no longer send the abbreviation /M
and will follow the
rules imposed on the category they have chosen.
- If you are not a member of a
digital mode club but want to participate in category M,
before the start of the contest you must
to become a member of a club
with specific digital modes. If you do not resolve, send me
an email asking you to become a member of the PDCC.
PRO DIGI CONTEST CLUB
(PDCC) was founded with one purpose, to facilitate
your participation if you wish in the M category of
the PDC.
(See
examples of special clubs for digital modes)
- Please do the same if you sent the
control RST /M
but
at the head of the Cabrillo log you did not specify a
digi mode club and member number,
in order to be
included in the ranking of the MEMBERS category (M).
If you do not proceed in this way your logs
will be included
in the Check Log (CL) category.
MO = All club
stations, regardless of the number of operators and
teams, only multiband, a single TX, All band
only,
any authorized power for this mode.
It is transmitted RST
+ serial number starting with 001 (E.g. 599 001)
Club stations with one or more
operators, regardless of the number of QSOs made, or power can
only participate in the MO category.
MO station must remain the
same band at least 10 minutes when they make the
contact on that band (RUNNING
station).
SO-HP
= Single Operator, All bands, Single TX, High Power, any authorized power
for this mode.
It
is transmitted RST
+ serial number starting with 001 (E.g. 599 001)
Competitors who have made at least 120 valid QSOs can also opt for the second
category, this being SO-SB provided
that in this
make at least 60 valid QSOs. If, as a result of the
arbitration, it is found that these two conditions have
not been met, the respective
competitor will be included in the
ranking only in the first category SO-HP.
SO-LP = Single
Operator, All bands, Single TX, Low Power, ( up to 50 W ).
It
is transmitted RST
+ serial number starting with 001 (E.g. 599 001)
Competitors
who have made at least
120 valid QSOs can also opt for the second category, this
being SO-SB provided that in this
make at least 60 valid QSOs. If, as a result of the
arbitration, it is found that these two conditions have
not been met, the respective
competitor will be included in
the ranking only in the first category SO-LP.
SO-SB
= Single Operator Single Band : SO10, SO15, SO20,
SO40, SO80 any authorized power for this mode.
It is transmitted RST
+ serial number starting with 001 (E.g. 599 001)
Competitors
whose log contains at least 120 valid QSOs can
also opt for the second category, also an SO-SB provided
that in each
between the two
categories to make at least 60 valid QSOs. If, as a result of the
arbitration, it is found that these two conditions
have
not been met, the
respective competitor will be included in the ranking
only in the first category indicated by him in the
email with the log.
SWL
= Short Wave Listeners, All bands
The same callsign may be logged once on
each band.
If the SWL log contains the
same callsign on a band in more than 3 QSOs, the SWL station
will be disqualified.
7. Contest Exchange:
Non members should send RST
report + serial number, starting with 001 for the first contact.
E.g. 599 001
Members of any digi-clubs, send RST
+ serial number, starting with 001+
particle /M E.g 589 001/M .
Only in this format will the evaluation program grant the
corresponding bonus.
See the imaginary logs below.
8. Scoring
QSO Points:
For QSO with own DXCC country: 1 point;
For QSO with another DXCC country: 2 points;
For QSO between DigiMode-Club members (M
category) and non-members receive : 2 points extra-bonus;
For QSO between two DigiMode-Club members (M
category), they receive: 6 points extra-bonus.
SWL category is awarded 3 points
for a valid full QSO and 1 point for a QSO
incomplete.
Multiplier:
Each different prefix worked will count
one (1) multiplier on each band, except all prefixes
from own DXCC
country who do not count as a
multiplier.
The final score is the result of the total
QSO points on all bands multiplied with the sum of multipliers
on all bands.
There is no multiplier for the SWL
category.
It is not necessary to calculate the
score.This will done by the referee software.
9. Prizes:
(For prize, please indicate in
the Cabrillo log your complete MAIL and EMAIL
address.)
All certificates will be put on the PDC
contest web site (Results) as PDF files for downloading and
printing.
Click
here for information about all PRO CONTEST CLUB awards for
PRO-DIGI-Contest
10. Logs
Instructions:
DO NOT SEND CONTEST LOG BEFORE
READING THE ROWS BELOW
Only electronic logs are accepted, files in
ASCII format, the Cabrillo format being preferred. Time is noted
in UTC.
Do not send the log as a
.ZIP,ADI,TXT, or .DOC file. The CHECK LOG will also comply with
the above requirements for cross-linking.
Competitors' email will contain the
attachment log. Regardless of the number of categories in which
you participated, only one contest log
will be sent, which will contain the
call sign and the category for which it was chosen. Ex. YO0WWW
(SO-LP) .See
example!!!
The file name of the attached log
will only be in the form : YR0XXX.cbr or YO0YYY.log
The log must be sent only as an
attachment, not as text or other content within the email
message.
In the header part of the electronic
log submission you MUST specify a category of entrance and the EMAIL
address and
the full mail address in order to
receive prizes.
Check logs are very much
appreciated, they are used for cross checking of all
entries.Remarks: Contact is valid,
if a time difference in both logs
does not exceed 3 minutes. Please don't forget to set
your computer's clock before the Contest!
If this is not mentioned, and the log
contains QSOs in multiple bands, the competitor will be moved to
the SO-HP category.
Logs sent after the deadline will be
included in the NO LOG list and will not be verified.
The PDC uses full computer control to
verify each QSO. Prizes will be sent to the mailing address
specified in the Cabrillo log.
If the Cabrillo logo header does not
contain the EMAIL address and full name, the
competitor will not receive the CLAIM and UBN
files,
and if the specified postal address
is incomplete or does not exist, will not receive the prize
obtained.
In addition, M-category
competitors must indicate at the top of the Cabrillo log ,
CLUB: (specific to the DIGI club) with NR.de Member
without which it cannot be included in the
ranking.
Logs will be sent to: digi@procontestclub.ro.
Please also follow the RECEIVED LOGS page.
If after 72 hours (but not
sooner) you have not received your CLAIM file,
please send the log again to digi-contest@yo2rr.ro
If you send a new log corrected or
completed the address for it is corrected-logs@procontestclub.ro
The deadline for sending logs is Sunday,
7 (seven) days after the end of the contest until 23:59 UTC
After this date, please do
not send the log because the activity of making the
provisional ranking has started
and pages for the net, and the
introduction of a new log implies the resumption of this
activity from the beginning.
Logs sent after the deadline will
be included in the NO LOG list and will not be verified.
11.Dupes
Dupes are contacts made with the
same station on the same band. If the first contact between
stations is valid, dupes
have zero points value. If the first
contact is not valid, second (dupe) contact is accepted.
Dupe contacts are not penalized,
so DUPES should not be marked or
deleted.
Sample of Cabrillo imaginary log for
PRO-DIGI-CONTEST 2024 Members category: M RTTY!!!
Sample of
Cabrillo imaginary log for PRO-DIGI-CONTEST 2024 Non-Members
category: SO,MO RTTY
!!!
The recommended program for
this contest is:
- N1MM
Logger + (PRO CW Contest in User Defined Contests
and is used in both PCC and PDC for PSK 63 and RTTY )
- MSHV
(PRO
DIGI
Contest) for the FT4 contest.(2025)
It also works:
- WSJT-X (RTTY RU with Exch: DX
for non-members and ME for Members (M)
or another program that can be set for this
contest.
12. Arbitration
If a competitor opts
for a category to which the rules do not allow, the referee has
the right to change the category according to the regulation.
QSOs are not counted and
excluded from the UBN report in case of:
- if the referee does not receive a Log
report from a correspondent: (NoLog) except for stations
whose call sign exists in at least 10 received logs,
- if the log is missing from the
correspondent the message is NoLog except for the
indicatives that exist in at least 5 logs received from at least
3 different countries,
- if QSO is not confirmed by the Log report
of the correspondent or the difference between the times in the
logs exceeds 3 minutes (NotInLog),
- if there are miscounts in exchange
numbers and callsigns, QSO is removed (Bad callsign, receive
error),
- if the Band or Mode in entrant's log and
other station's log differ QSO is removed from both operators,
- if the category is MO operator
did not respect the 10
minutes on a band,
- competitors who obtain 0 (zero)
points are included in the Check Log (CL) category.
13.
Disqualification
For cheating,
imaginary loging and clear repetitive and intentional
violation of the contest rules.
If the SWL log
contains the same callsign on a band in more than 3 QSOs,
the SWL station will be disqualified.
14. Results
The Provisional results
appears at www.procontestclub.ro
on the morning of Monday, the 8th day after the contest.
The appeals regarding the
provisional ranking are accepted only on Monday, on the day
of its posting on the site until 23:59 UTC.
Every participant who sends his
electronic log will receive personal UBN-list, containing the
mistakes of the competitors
and the list
of stations from which we have not received log.
The final results will be
published on the site, Tuesday the 9th day after the contest.(or
after resolving the appeals if they exist)
Decisions
of the referee are final.
Prizes for
PCC, PDC and PCC&PDC are sent betwen February and
March at the addresses specified in the Cabrillo log.
Prizes destined for
RUSSIA or UKRAINE will be shipped when the situation allows. In
the last edition, some returned and others were lost.
15. Contest manager, referee and
sponsor is YO2RR .
25 -Apr-2023 at 10:15 UTC
