SSB/CW/Digital
00:00 UTC February 13 2025 – 23:59 UTC February 14, 2025
ELIGIBILITY
All licensed men and women operators throughout the world are invited to participate.
PROCEDURE
OMs call “CQ-YL” and YLs call “CQ-OM.”
OPERATION
All bands may be used except WARC bands. Net contacts and repeater contacts do not count. Participants can work 36 hours of the 48 hours in each contest. Operating breaks of 30 minutes or more should be indicated in the log.
EXCHANGE
Station worked, QSO number, RS(T), ARRL section, VE province, or country. Entries in log should also show time, band, and date.
SCORING
Phone and CW will be scored as separate contests. Digital contacts (RTTY, PSK31, etc) count as CW. Score each band separately.
One point is earned for each different station worked on each band and mode; YLs count only OMs and OMs count only YLs. Add together the QSO points earned for each band.
Multiply the number of QSOs by the total number of different ARRL sections/VE provinces/ countries worked. A multiplier is counted only once in each mode (i.e. SSB, CW) regardless of band.
Contestants running 5W or less will be considered QRP and earn a power factor of 3. Contestants running 5W to 100W will be considered low power and earn a power factor of 1.5. Contestants running over 100W will be high power. If no transmitter power is listed on logs, no power factor will be given.
LOGS
It is recommended that all computer logs be submitted in cabrillo format. All logs must show your ARRL section, province, or country to qualify for awards. For each QSO, logs must show the station worked, QSO number given and received, RS(T) given and received, the ARRL section/VE province/DXCC country of the station worked, date, UTC time, band, and mode. Logs must also state the power output used and the operating breaks taken (30 minutes or more). Remember to file separate logs for each contest. All logs go to the current YLRL Vice President and must be submitted within 30 days of contest end or use the Log Submission form on the YLRL website.
AWARDS
Highest scoring YL, OM, YL group/club in SSB and CW will each receive a first place cup provided there are at least 10 valid contacts. The second and third place winners in each contest will receive certificates. The winner of the SSB contest cup is also eligible to win the CW cup. Certificates will be awarded to the highest scoring YL, OM, YL club/group of each U.S./province/country, provided there are at least ten valid contacts on the log.
