************************************ Winter VHF Sprint Sponsored by the Rochester VHF Group RVHFG.org ************************************ 0 Purpose: Contact as many stations on as many VHF (30-300 MHz) bands as possible within a ONE HOUR period. 1 No operating restrictions are in effect, other than those shown below 2 Event Parameters 2.1 Operate on VHF (30 to 300 MHz) frequencies for a songle hour 2.1.1 Specific Bands: 6 meters, 2 meters, 1.35 meters 2.1.2 Date/Time: Saturday, January 2, 2021 16:00:00z-16:59:59z (1-hour) 3 Signals 3.1 Only simplex modes are allowed (no active relay or repeating) 3.2 Only one signal per station (not per band) 4 Operator Classes 4.1 Single Operator, fixed location 5 Power Classes 5.1 The highest power used on any individual band determines the overall category 5.1.1 <20 watts 5.1.2 <200 watts 5.1.3 200+ watts 6. Exchange 6.1 Call Sign and Grid-4 7 Scoring 7.1 Contact a station once per band, regardlesss of mode 7.2 QSO-Points 7.2.1 50 MHz = 1 point per QSO 7.2.2 144 MHz = 1 point per QSO 7.2.3 222 MHz = 2 points per QSO 7.3 Calculate score by adding QSO-points acquired for all bands and multiply that by the sum of unique Grid-4's on each band. Example: 50 MHz: 15 QSO's (15 QSO-points) and 10 unique Grid-4's 144 MHz: 20 QSO's (20 QSO-points) and 14 unique Grid-4's 222 MHz: 12 QSO's (24 QSO-points) and 10 unique Grid-4's 59 QSO=points x 34 Grid-4's = 2,006 points 8 Reporting 8.1 Post scores to 3830scores.com