Digital Pentathlon - 2008

Participants :

Any licensed amateur radio operators  are invited to take part in the 4-th Digital Pentathlon competition.

Date and time:

Digital Pentathlon contanes 5 stages of a mode.

PSK (BPSK63) mode will run from 1800 UTC to 2200 UTC on June,6 2008
MFSK (MFSK16) mode will run from 1800 UTC to 2200 UTC on June,13 2008
Olivia (500hz/16 tones) mode will run from 1800 UTC to 2200 UTC on June,20 2008
Hellschreiber (Feldhell) mode will run from 1800 UTC to 2200 UTC on June,27 2008
THROB (4 throb/sec) mode will run from 1800 UTC to 2200 UTC on July,4 2008

Bands:

Operation is limited to special digital parts of the next amateur bands: 3.5, 7, 14, 21 and 28 MHz.

3585-3595, 7035-7039, 14073-14077 (14103-14108 - Olivia), 21073-21077 (21103-21108 - Olivia),
28073-28075 (28103-28108 - Olivia)
Each station may be worked only once per band during an each stage of a mode.
Setup for Olivia: 500 Hz / 16 tones.

50 watts is limit of maximal output power.

Exchange:

Call “CQ DigiPen”

Both station must exchange during a QSO the next  information:
Serial number - WW_loc - Power    (Examples:  001-KO85MM-5     002-JN25AB-35).
S/n of each mode begin from 001.

Scoring:

Each QSO score counts by formula:   distance / (P1 * P2)

Distance between both stations (km) count by WW-locators
P1 and P2 - powers of 1-st and 2-nd stations (watts)

Certificates:

Winner’s awards will be sent to the first, second and third place stagewinners and total 5 modes winners. All awards will be sent by e-mail as jpeg file with the resolution suitable for good quality printing in A4 size. (abt 2MB by e-mail)

Each participant who will take part in 5 stages of modes and sent complete logs with no less 10 QSOs in each mode will be enrolled in DQSO Club as a member and will get the certificate with his membership number.

Logs:

All logs must be sent before July, 31 2008 to dp2008@dqso.net
The separate logs must be sent for each mode.
All logs must contain the following information to be considered for entry:
Your name, callsign, QSO data, ww-locator, e-mail address, your claimed score.
We will accept only electronic logs in standart Cabrillo format.
E-logs are sent to: DQSO Club with your callsign in the message subject.