GUIDELINES for the GRIDSQUARE LEAGUE TABLE
as at 6 June 2004
1. Submit number of grid squares claimed as worked on 144MHz, 432MHz, 1296MHz, 2.4GHz, 3.4GHz, 5.7GHz, 10GHz, 24GHz. No details of actual squares/stations required.
2. Starting date for contacts: 1st January 1990 (as for WIA Awards).
3. Stations should submit a total for all modes (cw, ssb, digital etc), and/or a total for a single mode using a mode suffix to indicate the mode (e.g. 47 SSB, 23 DIGITAL).
4. EME claims to be listed separately.
5. Contacts via repeater or active satellite should not be counted.
6. Cross-band contacts should not be counted (on either band).
7. Contacts with aeronautical or maritime mobile stations should not be counted.
8. Except as allowed by Rule 9, all squares claimed (other than those worked by EME) must be worked from locations within a single limited "region", which can be encompassed by a circle of radius 50km.
9. A gridsquare may also be claimed by a "reverse contact" from that square to any station in your home square.
10. Entry is open to any VK, not just subscribers to the VK-VHF Reflector.
11. The Table of Standings will be posted on the VK-VHF Reflector and on the web site of the NSW VHF DX Group (http://www.vhfdx.oz-hams.org) roughly every 3 months, and may be reprinted from there in "Amateur Radio" and other magazines.
12. Updates to me at any time by email/mail (QTHR 2005).
COMMENTS
If you move house to a new "region", you have to start again, though your old score still stands of course.
The intention of Rules 8 and 9 is to encourage portable operation (up to 100 km from home, or from a rare gridsquare) to overcome the limitations of a home qth, but not to an extent which confers an unreasonable advantage.
If you regularly go portable to a different "region", you can keep a separate tally for the /p operation.
There is no minimum number of squares to start - you don't need to have 50 squares on 2m!
Please enter at any level so that we may all enjoy watching the growth of your tally.
No correspondence will be entered into by me regarding the veracity of people's claims.
If you want more details from someone, please email them privately and not through the Reflector.
Guy VK2KU