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Announcing:

The 2010 CQ World-Wide VHF Contest

Starts: 1800 UTC Saturday, July 17, 2010

Ends: 2100 UTC Sunday, July 18, 2010

Rules Summary:

Bands: 50 MHz [6 Meters]; 144 MHz [2 Meters]

Categories: Single-Op All Band

Single-Op Single Band 6 Meters

Single-Op Single Band 2 Meters

Single-Op QRP All Band [<10 watts]

Hilltopper [SOAB QRP Portable limited to 6 continuous hours operating]

Rover [1 or 2 ops mobile/portable operating from 2 or more Grid Locators]

Multi-op

QSO Exchange: Maidenhead Grid Locator to 4 digits [e.g. FN41]

Multipliers: Total number of different Grid Locators worked per band.

Scoring: Work stations once per band regardless of mode. Count 1 point per QSO on 50 MHz and 2 points per QSO on 144 MHz. Total QSO points X Multiplier = Final Score.

Rovers only: Final score = Sum of QSO points from each Grid Locator visited X sum of different Grid Locators worked from each GL visited.

Awards: Certificates are awarded to high scoring stations in each USA state, Canadian province, and DX country in categories with outstanding effort. Rover certificates are awarded on a regional basis.

Club Competition: Credit your club for aggregate club score. See http://www.cqww.com/clubnames.htm for list of registered clubs. Follow directions for registering your club if not already listed.

Log Submissions: Cabrillo formatted logs via e-mail attachment to: <cqvhf@cqww-vhf.com> with subject line: Callsign [used in the contest] only. It is strongly recommended that paper logs be entered on-line via “Web Form for Typing in Paper Logs” link at http://www.cqww-vhf.com or postmarked by September 1, 2010 to: CQ VHF Contest, 25 Newbridge Rd., Hicksville, NY 11801 USA. Callsigns of electronic logs received are posted on: http://www.cqww-vhf.com.

Complete Rules: Complete rules in the June issue of CQ and http://www.cqww-vhf.com.