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The organizer of contest is the Russian Digital Radio Club. The Russian contest on radio short waves communications Russian WW Digital Contest by using the RTTY and BPSK63 modes is conducted according to the present Rules annually to first week-end of October. We invite all fans of digital modes to take part in contest from 12.00 UTC on Saturday 5th October till 11:59 UTC on Sunday 6th October, 2024. Types of modulation: RTTY45, BPSK63.

The repeated contacts are permitted on different bands and different modes providing that a contact will be made not earlier than in 3 minutes. The output power should not exceed the resolved power according to the radioamateur license of the participant. The outpout QRP power should not exceed 5 watts. The operator may change the bands no more than 10 times within calendar hour (with zero on 59-th minute of each hour). Only one transmitted signal is permitted at any time. Bands: 160 m, 80 m, 40 m, 20 m, 15 m, 10 m. A separate category for the Russia and foreign participants. QSO's by a principle ALL TO ALL. All logs must be sent no later than 5 days after the contest.

Date and Time:

11th RUS-WW-DIGI 2024: 12:00 UTC 05.10.2024 - 11:59 UTC 06.10.2024
12th RUS-WW-DIGI 2025: 12:00 UTC 04.10.2025 - 11:59 UTC 05.10.2025
13th RUS-WW-DIGI 2026: 12:00 UTC 03.10.2026 - 11:59 UTC 04.10.2026
14th RUS-WW-DIGI 2027: 12:00 UTC 02.10.2027 - 11:59 UTC 02.10.2027

Bands: 
Contest participants are allowed to work on 160 meters (1.8 MHz), 80 meters (3.5 MHz), 40 meters (7 MHz), 20 meters (14 MHz), 15 meters (21 MHz) and 10 meters (28 MHz). RDRC recommends the following frequencies: 1.840 - 1.843 MHz, 3.582 - 3.599, 7.040 - 7.050 MHz, 14.072 - 14.110 MHz, 21.072 - 21.110 MHz, 28.072 - 28.125 MHz.

Categories:
MULTI-ONE - Multi-Operator, Single Transmitter, All Bands - Club stations and SES stations:
- World - only continents, all the countries except for Russia,
- European Russia,
- Asiatic Russia;
MULTI-ONE JUNIOR - Multi-Operator Junior: each participant younger than 20 years, Single Transmitter, All Bands - Club stations and SES stations:
- World - only continents, all the countries except for Russia,
- European Russia,
- Asiatic Russia;
SINGLE-OP ALL HIGH - Single-Operator, All Bands, High power - the output power should not exceed the resolved power according to the radioamateur license of the participant:
- World - only continents, all the countries except for Russia,
- European Russia,
- Asiatic Russia;
SINGLE-OP JUNIOR - Single-Operator Junior: each participant younger than 20 years:
- World - only continents, all the countries except for Russia,
- European Russia,
- Asiatic Russia;
SINGLE-OP 160M-80M-40M - Single-Operator; 160, 80 and 40м:
- World - only continents, all the countries except for Russia,
- European Russia,
- Asiatic Russia;
SINGLE-OP 20M-15M-10M - Single-Operator; 20, 15 and 10м:
- World - only continents, all the countries except for Russia,
- European Russia,
- Asiatic Russia;
SINGLE-OP ALL QRP - Single-Operator, All Bands, QRP - the output power should not exceed 5 watts:
- World - only continents, all the countries except for Russia,
- European Russia,
- Asiatic Russia;
SINGLE-OP RTTY - Single-Operator, All Bands, RTTY:
- World - only continents, all the countries except for Russia,
- European Russia,
- Asiatic Russia;
SINGLE-OP BPSK - Single-Operator, All Bands, BPSK:
- World - only continents, all the countries except for Russia,
- European Russia,
- Asiatic Russia;

Note:

1.The participants can be declared only one subgroup.

2. SOQRP - is necessary to indicate in your call /QRP

Note MOAB: Two - ten operators with their personal or SWL callsigns can form a team. Personal callsigns should be necessarily specified. Each participant younger than 20 years in subgroup MOAB will be awarded a certificate for participation in the contest.

Number Exchange:
Participants from Russia, and also the foreign radioamateurs who are being in territory of Russia, should send RS,RST(Q) plus 2-letter abbreviation of Russian Area (oblast) Code (example for Moscow region – 599 MA). The list of Russia areas and their symbols look in the appendix on this page (in the end of the text of rules position). Participants from other countries and territories of the world (except for Russia), should send RS,RST(Q) plus QSO number, starting 001 (example - 599 001). The numeration on bands is current.General call - "CQ RUSTEST".

The repeated contacts are permitted on different bands and different modes providing that a contact will be made not earlier than in 3 minutes. The contact with correspondent who has not sent the report can be accepted if the callsign of the correspondent can be met not less than in three different reports.

Points:
Each contact between stations on 20, 15 and 10 m is worth:
- inside the country - 1 point;
- with other country - 3 points;
- with other continents - 5 points;
- with QRP-stations - 5 points.
The points on 160, 80 and 40 m are doubled.

Multiplier:
The multiplier are the countries according to the list of DXCC and Russian areas on each mode and each band.

Scoring:
The final score is the result of the total points multiplied by the sum of multipliers.

Prizes and Awards:
Gallery of prizes and certificates: https://www.rdrclub.ru/gallery-prizes-rdrc

All certificates for contests are loading on site AWARDS CENTER OF RDRC.

Modes in Cabrillo file must be identified as follows:

RTTY   - RY

BPSK63   - PM

Name your Cabrillo file as your callsign (for example – R3BB.cbr, R3BB.log or R3BB.txt). This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

All logs must be sent no later than 5 days after the contest.

SAMPLE of CABRILLO:    ⇒ examples head for Cabrillo format logs

Address of Log report:
You should send your log via email rusww(AT)rdrclub.ru or upload via the Web interface:
https://ua9qcq.com/submit_log.php

Last date of Log report:
All logs must be sent no later than 5 days after the contest - 23:59 UTC 11 October 2024

Allowed correspondents:
Amateur radio operators from Russia and other countries of the world may participate in the competition.

Disqualification:
The Contest Committee will use the mechanism of monitoring of air for the purpose of revealing of the participants who operate with exceeding of admissible IMD norms, creating considerable QRM and breaking the Rules of the given competitions.

The basis for disqualification can be:

1. The operation with excess of admissible bandwidth of RTTY45 and BPSK63 signal  due to overloads, intermodulation, harmonics of a sound card and other reasons.

The Contest Committee will declare the prevention (a yellow card) to the participant for one fixed infringement on quality of a signal on the basis of spectrograms-screenshots. The prevention entails the penalty - 30 % of points will be removed in results from result of the infringer. Besides for the prevention certificates and prizes will not be given out.

The Contest Committee will declare DQ (a red card)to participants who will be recorded twice in a time interval not less than 15 minutes with quality of transmitting signal on scale Q<7: http://ham.stackexchange.com/questions/548/digital-mode-signal-reports and worth, with inadmissible bandwidth of signal in Hz visible on “waterfall” and under condition of presence of a level of air noise on the time-and-frequency diagram.

2. The excess of the output power stipulated by given Rules.
3. Transmitted of two and more signals to one moment of time.
4. The use for transmitting of a control number not corresponding to the Rules of contest.
5. Not the message in the cabrillo report of data on a QTH of radio station.
6. Work from territory of Russia the call signs which have been not stipulated by regulating documents of Ministry of Communications and GRFC of Russia.
7. More than 30 % of not confirmed QSOs.
8. Unsporting behaviour during contest.

The results of the infringers will be cancelled. The appeals are not accepted!

Software for working in contest:

The participants of RUS-WW-DIGI can watch the results online on the contest server. Connecting to the server: https://contest.run/#/help/connect How to set up your contest programs to transfer data to the server, see these links:
TR4W   N1MM   5MContest   QARTest   DXLog   WriteLog   Win-Test

Russian WW Digital Contest is supported with the following software:

• MixW from UT2UZ  www.mixw.net .

  DLL for this contest to download here (update 4 October 2019): http://www.digitalrus.ru/Files/StatsRUSWWDIGI.zip

  Adjusting MixW for RUS-WW-DIGI: http://www.digitalrus.ru/Files/Tuning&Result/RUS-WW-DIGI.htm

• UR5EQF_log  http://ur5eqf.ru ,  forum ur5eqf_log

  DLL for this contest to download here:  http://ur5eqf.ru/download/cs/RussianDIGIContest.rar

  Video about adjustment UR5EQF_log for RUS-WW-DIGI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doZGdg03beI

• TR4W+MMTTY only SOAB-RTTY subgroup - use module: http://ur7qm.ucoz.ua/load/0-0-0-326-20

• DXLog.net  http://dxlog.net 

• RCKLog from DL4RCK  http://rcklog.software.informer.com 

• N1MM  www.n1mm.hamdocs.com

UDC for RUS-WW-DIGI https://n1mmwp.hamdocs.com/mmfiles/ruswwdig-udc/ 

• AATest from RZ4AG  www.dxsoft.com

• 5MContest  http://5mcontest.qrz.ru

  When preparing to the contest read the items of Russian WW Digital Contest Rules attentively and do not make mistakes when you work on the air or make up a report. Before sending a report file in Cabrillo format, please compare it to the sample and check the identity of modes to RY, PM.

Please check up whether "head" of the report is made properly, if there are test subgroup or subgroups, your address, e-mail and all other data in it. At reception of the report you receive the standard answer from the post robot.

We wish you great success and enjoyable participation in our contest!

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