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WWSA 2010 Update II

On Saturday June 12th from 1500Z until Sunday 13th at 1500Z, we will have our CW international party on the HF bands, it is the World Wide South America CW DX Contest where the South Americans play the stars role.

That day the football World Cup in South Africa will be running and Argentina will play its first match against Nigeria on Saturday 12th at 1400Z but later there will be other games Greece Vs England and Korea Vs USA.

Anyway this will be a real challenge for us as a WWSA organizer country, so we're spreading to the LU stations to be prepared to have a TV nearby shack for the contest and watch time to time the second half time while they are are running the contest, hi hi.

Guillermo LW1EXU has already made the address registration of the new blog will have as soon as possible exclusively dedicated to the WWSA, for now you can only see a text sign.

The address is http://www.wwsatest.org and we hope to begin to build the entire history of the WWSA with results, photos, and everything that may be of interest to Contesters.

Esteban LW1DTZ has also worked extensively for the development and improvement of software control tools and his progress is very interesting, but I´m not sure that we can count on them for the occasion. We'll see how follow the progress of our 'Official Developer'.

Among our progress I would say that if you visit the page http://gacw.no-ip.org and then the WWSA CW Contest item menu, will see that the rules are now available in six languages, Castilian, English, German , Romanian, Portuguese and French. The number (Hits) that appears to the right of each topic is the number of times this page has been accessed.

The site for WD8KNC ALL in ONE software that includes WWSA option has been redirected to the new temporary accommodation:
http://www.ghafler.com/wd8knc.html

The GACW web site administrator Gabriel LU3DAT made some changes to show WWSA COUNTDOWN clock for the WWSA starting.

Mind that the 63% of SA stations are running 100 Watts or less.

Then, we wanted to remember to you that the second weekend of next month we will have a new edition of our dear Contest WWSA - World Wide South America that we organize from the GACW for already a few years.

I - DATE: SECOND WEEK END OF JUNE EACH YEAR
12th/13th JUNE 2010 - 15.00 UTC saturday till 15.00 UTC sunday – 24 hours period.

It is a kind of a contest in which all the South Americans will play the role of difficult DX since we grant a special points and of there the importance that all Radiotelegrafistas of the South American countries represents for the contesters and participants of the rest of the world.

II - Objective:
For amateurs around the world to contact other amateurs in as many CQ zones and radio countries as possible in A1A mode (CW). (WORLD WIDE CONTEST - everybody-works-everybody ) - A station can be contacted once per band only.
III - Bands
All bands, 3,5 through 28, no WARC/160m bands.

When we choose the mechanics of the communications, points and multipliers of the WWSA, we choose the same one of the CQ WW with exception of the points that South Americans grants to other countries. We think that this way we were favoring the comprehension of the used system and the SA stations facility in using any software that serves for the CQ WW.

Then the contest logger developers seeing that only needed a few light modifications to the CQ WW program they already have, bloomed the versions of free software, shareware and payment of different languages and facility with the option WWSA or GACW in CW.

So, for 5 years we did an important investment of money, bulletins, plaques, awards, printed results, stamped and propagandas on web pages.

When we think about final calculation and in the exchange that it was necessary to realize, also we choose for an easy and well-known formula to avoid confusions.

V - Number exchange:
RST report plus CQ zone.

VI - Multiplier:
Two types of multiplier will be used.
1. A multiplier of one (1) for each different zone contacted on each band.
2. A multipier of one (1) for each different country contacted on each band. Stations are permitted to contact their own country and zone for multiplier credit. The CQ WAZ definitions, DXCC and the GACW country list, WAE country list, and WAC boundaries are standards. Maritime mobile stations will count only for a zone multiplier.

VII - Points:
1. Contacts between stations on different continents are worth three (3) points.
2. Contacts between stations on the same continent but different countries, one (1) point.
3. Contacts between stations in the same country are permitted for zone or country multiplier credit but have zero (0) point value.
4. Contacts with South American stations = 5 pts. (Only for non SA)
VIII - Scoring:
All stations: The final score is the result of the total QSO points multiplied by the sum of your zone and country multiplier. Example: 100 QSO points x 100 multiplier (20 Zones + 80 Countries) = 10,000 (final score).

For the categories options we try to propose the simplest thing and something that is already well know in the contest world.

IV - Categories:

Single Operator Categories
Single band or all band; only one signal allowed at any time; the operator can change bands at any time.

Single Operator High
Those stations at which one person performs all of the operating and logging functions. The use of DX alerting assistance of any kind places the station in the Multi Operator category. The output power must not exceed your licence category.

Single Operator Low
The output power shall not exceed 100 watts.

Single Operator QRP
The power output must not exceed 5 watts.

A Single Operator receiving operating and/or thechnical help of any kinf during the contest period will be clasified as a MO station

Multi-Operator Categories
All band operation only.

Single Transmitter
Only one transmitter and one band permitted during any 10 minute period defined as starting with the first logged QSO on a band. Exception: One-and only one-other band may be used during any 10 minute period if-and only if the station worked is a new multiplier. Logs found in violation of the ten-minute rule will be automatically reclassified as multi-multi.

Multi-Transmitter
No limit to transmitters but only one signal and running station allowed per band.

It be fixed that there is no an assisted category by the use of the cluster or other external or incidental personal / hardware / software help to the single operator, then when a SO use them we locate it in the Multioperator (MO - MS) category.

For this edition, as we did the previous year, we will grant electronic Diplomas to the winners of the most important categories and when his score justifies it.

If you think that the CONDX is bad, that he does not like to inform in this type of activities or that his station is not on a par with an international contest, remember that from the GACW in the Argentina we have realized an important effort that it takes as the only International South American contest as the WWSA is.

Héctor M. Ombroni LU6UO - hectorombroni@yahoo.com.ar
C. Guillermo Vahnovan LW1EXU - guillev@v2r.com.ar
E. Gabriel Drago LU5FZ - lu5fz@arnet.com.ar
Coordinadores del GACW
http://gacw.no-ip.org

[S51DX]

Ja, še eno stvar bi pa le rad izpostavil:

- From 2008 we will not offer any awards and/or plaques.

- We will SHOW the name and QRA of the categories winner in the text of the PDF results.

Zdaj, če prav razumem - bo od tega kontesta imela korist samo država z trošarino na elektriko.
Pa tudi rezultati za 2009 kažejo samo na slab link. Se pravi, tipično južnoameriško - ne damo niti
pdf diplome, rezultatov pa tko ne rabite... "it's siesta time (kar skozi)!


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