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Announcement of 2008 SMIRK Contest

The SMIRK QSO Party, sponsored by the Six Meter International Radio Klub will be held from 0000Z June 21, 2008 through 2400Z June 22, 2008. Contacts must be on six meters only, voice and/or CW. No contacts involving another band for one side of the contact count. This is a Single Operator ONLY Contest.

One need not be a SMIRK member to take part.

Logs must be postmarked no later than 1 August, 2008 and sent to Dale Richardson, AA5XE, 214 Palo Verde Dr., Kerrville, TX 78028 USA.

Logs may also be submitted via electronic mail to , and must be received no later than 1 August, 2008. Logs may be submitted in Cabrillo or ADIF format but must include a summary page call, name and address, and score. Due to the nature of the Internet, SMIRK will not be held liable for any log submissions not received by the due date because of connectivity failures, et cetera.

All contacts must be made by a single operator. There is no multi-operator category in this contest.

Exchange is callsign, SMIRK number, if the station worked has one, and grid.

Partial contacts in which one of the above pieces of information are missing, do not count.

All contacts must be made via natural propagation. No contacts using repeaters, or any manmade device for relaying transmissions are allowed.

All participants must observe the rules governing Amateur Radio operation in the participant's country.

Scoring is as follows:

Count 1 point for each completed contact.

If station worked provides a SMIRK number, multiply by 2.

Final score is contact points times grids worked. New log forms are available from AA5XE at the above address, or on the SMIRK Web site at http://www.smirk.org.

Certificates will be issued to the highest scoring participant submitting a valid log, in each ARRL Section, the Maritime Provinces and each of the remaining Canadian provinces and each other DXCC country. If different from the above, a certificate will also be awarded to the highest scoring SMIRK member from each of these areas submitting a valid log. To be valid, logs must include this above location information.

For the purpose of this contest, a SMIRK member is anyone who has ever been issued a SMIRK number, whether or not he or she has paid dues in recent years. Of course, all 6 meter operators are encouraged to join SMIRK or renew. Renewals may be obtained by sending $6 to the above address, noting the SMIRK number. Anyone not a member, may join by sending a list of six SMIRK members worked on 6 meters, along with $6 to the above address. An attempt will be made to issue a SMIRK number to each new member applying in time to fully participate in this year's SMIRK QSO Party.

SMIRK members as well as non-SMIRK members are invited to take part in this fun event. Why not give it a try?

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