JAY HUDAK MEMORIAL 80M SPRINT

Sponsored by the Ø7Ø Club and
Dedicated to the memory of Jay Hudak KA3X, Ø7Ø #001

 

When:  

Choose any 6 hour block between:

  2000 UTC 1st Saturday in September -

1959 UTC 1st Sunday in September

You may operate the full 24 hours of the contest! 

For scoring, your six hour block will begin with the hour that you select on the scorer page and continue for the next 6 hours.

 

Who:

All licensed radio amateurs. Look for Ø7Ø Club members in the event.

Categories:

The Contest will have four separate entry categories - single-op club station entries are welcome in any category:

 

QRP:	Maximum power not exceeding 5 watts
Low:	Maximum power not exceeding 25 watts
Medium:	Maximum power not exceeding 50 watts
High:	Maximum power not exceeding 100 watts

 

Frequencies:

80 Meters only - 3.580Mhz Dial Freq

 

Exchange: State/province/country (SPC). Call "CQ 80m Sprint".

 

Multipliers:

Each different state/province/country (SPC) worked, counted only once. Use current ARRL DXCC list for country reference. If you work your own SPC, do not forget to take credit for the multiplier. Note also:

First U.S. station worked counts as two (2) multipliers (country and state).

First VE station worked counts as two (2) multipliers (country and province).

First Alaska station worked counts as two (2) multipliers (country and state).

First Hawaii station worked counts as two (2) multipliers (country and state).

(Note: Washington, DC counts as MD.)
 

Total Score: QSO Points X Multipliers

 

Awards:

Highest Ø7Ø Club member score gets Top Dawg and a Rollo Dog Tag!

Place certificates will be awarded in each category.

All Ø7Ø members participating and submitting logs will receive an endorsement sticker.

 

Entries:

Logfile format: ADIF (why adif?). Please submit logs via the 80m Sprint Uploader. (will be activated when contest starts).

All entries must be received by One (1) week after the contest.

Entries with excessive dupes will be listed as check logs. All entries are subject to verification.

 

The 070 Club reserves the right to disqualify entries deemed not in accordance with the above rules or contrary to the spirit of this event.

 

Questions? Problems with the Contest Scorer?

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Ø7Ø Club Three Day Weekend (TDW) Contest

 

Purpose:

To work as many stations as possible using PSK31 mode during the Three Day Weekent

This event is open to all amateur radio operators licensed to operate on the HF bands.

 

 

Entry Categories:

QRP (max power 5 watts output)

Low Power (max power 25 watts output)

Medium Power (max power 50 watts output)

High Power (max power 100 watts output)

Dates:

First Weekend ending in June (See Contest Calendar for actual dates)

 

Time:

0000 UTC Friday - 2359 UTC Sunday

 

Exchange:

Members send 070 Club Number.

Non-members send 0000 in place of a 070 Club number.

Recommend CQ:  CQ 070 TDW de K9DWR K

 

Bands:

160 thru 6 meters, no WARC bands. Work each station once/band.

All contacts must be 2-way PSK31.

No repeater, cross-mode or cross-band contacts allowed.

 

Power:

Use no more than the stated maximum for your entry category. Please keep your power output set to a reasonable level to avoid QRMing others. Use the MINIMUM power necessary to make the contact at all times!

 

Scoring:

QSO points - Each contact counts one (1) QSO point, dupes count (0) points.

Multipliers - Multipliers are the number of unique 070 club numbers worked (including 0000), counted once (not per band).

Final Score = (Total QSO Points) x (Total Different 070 numbers) + (Total Bonus Points) = Final Score.

Bonus Stations:

Each contact with a bonus station counts as one hundred (100) bonus points. You can work each Bonus Station once per band, but please don't ask them to QSY to another band for you. Bonus Stations will try to work as many bands as their equipment and propagation allows to give everyone a chance for extra points, but remember that they are in the contest, too. There is no guarantee that all Bonus Stations will be active on all bands.
 

The complete list of 2024 Bonus Stations.
 

Call	070#	Name	QTH	State	Grid
AB8YZ	2844	JoAnn	Dallas	TX	EM12
KC3FL	2566	John	Inverness	FL	EL88
KC3VPB	2972	Caleb	Chambersburg	PA	FM19
KZ3T	1065	Dan	Lenoir	NC	EM95
N0NM	834	Ray	Hill City	KS	EM09
VA3TPS	526	Steve	Fenelon Falls	ON	FN04
WA5AMM	2827	Buz	Easley	SC	EM84
VA7GEM	1470	Barry	N. Vancouver	BC	CN89

 

Awards:

Place certificates will be sent for each category. Highest Ø7Ø Club member score gets Top Dawg and a Rollo Dog Tag!

All Ø7Ø Club member entries received will automatically qualify for an endorsement sticker.
 

Entries:

Logfile format: ADIF (why adif?). Please submit logs via the TDW Uploader. (will be activated when contest starts).

All entries must be received by One (1) week after the TDW Contest.

Entries with excessive dupes will be listed as check logs. All entries are subject to verification.

 

The 070 Club reserves the right to disqualify entries deemed not in accordance with the above rules or are contrary to the spirit of this event.

 

If you have questions, please contact our contest support staff: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

 

History of PODXS and the 070 Club part 3

HISTORY OF PODXS AND THE 070 CLUB PART 3
 

 

   About a year before PODXS launched the 070 Club program, PODXS Contest Manager N3DQU thought that the club needed some sort of tradition to lend itself a bit of class and exclusivity. So in November 1999 on Thanksgiving Day, he bestowed upon his fellow PODXS'ers a tradition in the form of a giant, beat-up beer stein called the PODXS Cup. By itself of course, a giant beer stein with the club name scratched into it doesn't mean a whole heck of a lot, but along with the PODXS Cup came something else, a year-long event in the form of a scavenger hunt, affectionately called The PODXS Cup Challenge! The Points were what the PODXS'ers had to scavenge for and the PODXS Cup was the prize! And being as PODXS is an hf radio club, you had to scavenge for the points...well, on the hf bands, 160 thru 6 meters!
   "It is left up to the wiles and ingenuity of each PODXS'er...", N3DQU instructed the members, "... to seek out and schedule QSO's through any and all means at his disposal, utilizing his knowledge of upcoming contests and events, internet search techniques, band propagation, etc." The Points were usually revealed around Christmas morning to the members, and they had from Jan 1 until Dec 31 of the coming year to put as many points in the log as they could before the deadline. And to the winner of the scavenger hunt, earned the privilege and honor of having the PODXS Cup grace a place of honor in his QTH until the winner of next year's scavenger hunt was announced and demanded his prize!
   The first winner of the PODXS Cup Challenge was AA8QQ, who swept the 25 Points in record time, requiring the Contest Manager to rethink the difficulty level of the Points. The PODXS Cup Challenge ran from 2000 thru 2006 and is currently in possession of the last winner of record, K8IJ.
   Below are links for the 2003 edition of this event. K8IJ managed to make 23 of 25 points that year. Read his log and see just what he went thru to make those 23 Points, a fb effort es fantastic reading! 73 de Jay N3DQU

- 2003 PODXS CUP HF CHALLENGE -
THE RULES
THE POINTS
THE WINNER!