CQIR - Ireland Calling Contest Rules
CQIR - Ireland Calling Contest Rules
Revision 8 January 2012
In 2012 the Irish Radio Transmitters Society (IRTS) celebrates
the 80th anniversary of its founding in 1932. As part of the
jubilee celebrations the Society is organising an International
Radio Contest, "CQIR - Ireland Calling".
For further information contact the Contest Manager at contestmanager@irts.ie
1 Object:
1.1 CQIR celebrates the IRTS 80th Anniversary and the "Irish" amateur-
radio community worldwide. It's where the Irish, at home
and abroad, work the World and have fun on the air.
1.2 This is an "everyone works everyone" event on the five
contest bands from 10 to 80 metres.
2 Date and Contest Period:
2.1 From 12:00 UTC Saturday 17th March 2012 to 11:59 UTC
Sunday 18th March 2012. Note: The contest finishes
(is over) at 12:00:00 noon the Sunday. This overlaps with the
Russian DX Contest. Log the Russian District.
3 Entry Categories:
3.1 CQIR is a single-operator event, with two categories.
1. Single Op Manual
2. Single Op Assisted,
Where entrants use any other comunications
mode or communications technology to find or
faciliate QSOs.
Within each Category the following Sections apply.
Irish
Single-Op All-Band CW
Single-Op All-Band SSB
Single-Op All-Band Mixed (CW/SSB)
World
Single-Op All-Band CW
Single-Op All-Band SSB
Single-Op All-Band Mixed (CW/SSB)
Giving a total of 12 Sections.
3.2 Entrants are "Irish" if:
- they operate from Ireland, or
- they were born in Ireland, or
- of Irish decent, or
- they want to be "Irish" for the day by sending an Irish County Code
3.3 All other entrants are "World" entrants.
4 Contest Exchange:
4.1 "Irish" entrants send a serial and their county code - the same code
for every QSO.
County codes are listed in Section 10.
4.2 World entrants send a serial only.
5 Scoring:
5.1 CW QSOs - 3 points.
SSB QSOs - 2 points.
5.2 The same station may be worked once per band/mode
combination.
5.3 Multipliers are each different Irish county code, on each
band and and on each mode. The maximum is 32 per band
for single-mode entrants, and 64 per band for mixed-mode
entries.
5.4 Penalties:
5.4.1 Points may be lost for logging errors.
5.4.2 There is no penalty for dupes - they should not be
removed from your log.
6 Awards:
6.1 There will be an Award for the winner of each section.
7 Conditions of Entry:
7.1 Cross-band and/or cross-mode QSOs are not permitted. QSOs
must take place in the recommended IARU band segments for
contest operation.
7.2 Only one transmitted signal is permitted at any time.
7.3 The operator and the station (all equipment and antennas)
must be located within a circle of 500 metres diameter.
7.4 All entries become the property of IRTS.
7.5 Entrants agree to be bound by the provisions and intent
of these rules. In any dispute, the decision(s) of IRTS
alone shall be final.
8 Submission:
8.1 Logs should be emailed, as attached uncompressed files, to
cqirlogs@irts.ie by 15th April 2012, named
YOURCALL.LOG where YOURCALL is the entrant's call used
during the contest.
8.2 All QSO records in your logs must conform to the Cabrillo
specifications in Section 9 of these Rules - based on
the specifications for the RSGB IOTA Contest at
http://www.kkn.net/~trey/cabrillo/qso-template.html.
Use any logging software you like but if your logging software
does not support this format, you must reformat your log accordingly.
otherwise it will be treated as a checklog.
8.3 Paper logs will not be accepted.
9 Cabrillo Specifications:
Note: - Although there is no requirement in CQIR to exchange
signal reports on-air, they should be included in your Cabrillo log.
9.1 "Irish" Entrants - send Serial & County:
QSO: 21222 PH 2007-09-29 1302 GI4FUE 59 001 ANT EI2JD 59
031 LOU
QSO: 21022 CW 2007-09-29 1759 GI4FUE 599 204 ANT HA1AG 599
302 ---
QSO: 7012 CW 2007-09-30 0911 GI4FUE 599 1316 ANT W3LPL 599
1922 COR
9.2 World Entrant - send Serial:
QSO: 21222 PH 2007-09-29 1759 HA1AG 59 302 --- EI6JK 59
001 ROS
QSO: 21022 CW 2007-09-30 0359 HA1AG 599 848 --- W3LPL 599
1922 COR
QSO: 7012 CW 2007-09-30 0806 HA1AG 599 1026 --- UA0QL 599
117 ---
10 Ireland - County Codes:
ANT Antrim ARM Armagh CAR Carlow CAV Cavan
CLA Clare COR Cork DER Derry/Londonderry DON Donegal
DOW Down DUB Dublin FER Fermanagh GAL Galway
KER Kerry KLD Kildare KLK Kilkenny LAO Laois
LEI Leitrim LIM Limerick LON Longford LOU Louth
MAY Mayo MEA Meath MON Monaghan OFF Offaly
ROS Roscommon SLI Sligo TIP Tipperary TYR Tyrone
WAT Waterford WES Westmeath WEX Wexford WIC Wicklow
For inquiries contact the contest Manager at contestmanager@irts.ie