RSGB
Friendship on the Air Award
The
main objective of this award is to connect radio amateurs in a friendly and
non-competitive way. You will accumulate points for each qualifying QSO and
through that you can gain the award, but the main purpose is to contact other
people and celebrate amateur radio.
If
you enter this award you must comply fully with all the local Covid-19
restrictions and advice in the area where you are operating. This includes, but
is not limited to, social distancing, meeting people outside your household and
travelling. Any enclosed operating space (e.g., a car) will be considered an
indoor location.
This
ongoing monthly and annual activity is for individuals and clubs. It is
facilitated by the software and systems of the RSGB Contest Committee but it is
not run as a contest. If you have any questions, please contact the Operating
Awards Manager: awards@rsgb.org.uk
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Objective |
To
have QSOs with other club stations across the UK. You
will score points for each QSO where you exchange the four-letter identifier
of your club. If you're not a club member but are a member of the RSGB, you
can use the RSGB identifier 'RSGB'. If you are not a member of any
club and so have no code to send to your QSO partner, this is ok; so long as
one of you passes a club identifier, the QSO counts. Your
scores will accumulate each month until the end of that calendar year. Represent
your club by activating the club call signs as much as possible. |
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Start date |
It
begins on 2 April 2021 with points accumulating each calendar month through
to the end of that calendar year |
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3.
Frequencies, modes and power |
All
UK allocated bands can be used in accordance with the official bandplans as published in RadCom or on the RSGB website: www.rsgb.org/bandplans Output
power should be consistent with the terms of your licence. Modes
are limited to: CW and Phone, including digital voice, DMR, IRLP and EchoLink modes. At
present Network Radio and data modes are not included. Whichever
mode you choose must be capable of exchanging the four-letter club
identifier. |
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Entrants |
All
UK and non-UK licensed amateurs may enter and submit logs. Points will only
be scored for contacts with local or national UK stations quoting the four-letter
identifier for a UK amateur radio club or society. |
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5.
Exchange |
You
need to send your call sign, signal report and your club identifier if you
have one (a four-letter code). Club identifiers are defined by the Contest
Committee: https://www.rsgbcc.org/cgi-bin/afs.pl In
your log, capture the received club identifiers in the Comments or Notes
field of your logging program, in order for them to appear in the `Comment'
or `Note' field in the exported ADI file. No other data should be present in
this field, so if necessary, please edit the exported ADI file to remove all
but the club identifier. If
you are a member of more than one club, you are not allowed to give multiple
club identifiers in a single QSO. |
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6.
Award criteria |
You
will receive one point per QSO with a station giving a club identifier. You
will only receive points for one contact per day with the same station i.e. if
you contact the same station twice in a day using different modes or bands,
it will only count as one valid contact for that day. Upload
your logs at the end of each calendar month. Your point scores will be
confirmed, and this score will show whether or not you are eligible for the
monthly award. All
the logs you upload will be accumulated at the end of the calendar year and
your points scores will be combined. This will show if you are eligible for
the annual award. |
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Log submission and
Adjudication |
Go to https://awards.rsgbcc.org and submit your log in
ADIF format. You must do this
within seven days of the end of the calendar month. Logs
must be uploaded individually, using the entry robot. If the robot finds
format errors, it will reject the log and ask for resubmission of a corrected
logfile. For
each contact, the submitted ADIF logfile must contain a minimum of the
following fields:
Date of QSO (YYYYMMDD): <QSO_DATE:8>
Time of QSO (UTC, 24-hour clock) (HHMMSS):
<TIME_ON:6>
The logging station's call sign (the callsign used over
the air): <STATION_CALLSIGN:n>
The contacted station's call sign: <CALL:n>
Band: <BAND:n>
Mode: <MODE:n>
Four-letter club identifier code: <COMMENT:4> or
<NOTES:4> n
= number of characters in the field. The AIDF specification format will give
you further information: https://www.adif.org/ If
any of these fields are missing, the log is likely to be rejected by the
robot. You
can submit one log that contains QSOs that have been held over a number of
days. However, if you choose to upload daily logs, you will only be able to
submit one log per day per call sign. If you upload a second log between 0000
and 2359 for the same call sign, the second log will overwrite the original
log. Note:
you select the identifier (four-letter code) for the club you are
representing from the pull-down list when you upload your log to the entry
robot. If you have difficulties preparing or uploading your
logfile, please contact the adjudicator
to ask for assistance, before the monthly or annual submission deadline. |
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8.
Results and Awards |
We
will process all uploaded logs and calculate points scores by matching logged
QSOs. You will only score points for your QSOs if another entrant has
submitted the same QSO in their log. Awards
will be issued as follows: Monthly
Award: - All entrants with
> 25 points in the calendar month - The club with the
highest number of points - The highest-scoring
club in each RSGB Region Annual award: - All entrants with
> 180 points in the calendar year 2021, and > 220 in subsequent years - The club with the
highest number of points - The highest-scoring
club in each RSGB Region |
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Supplementary rules |
(a)
You must log the same call signs that were exchanged over
the air in your QSO (b)
You must send your call sign in full in every QSO, and in
voice modes this must be done phonetically at least once per QSO (c)
Short Contest call signs are not to be used
for this award |
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10.
Declaration |
You declare that: (a) Your station was operated strictly in accordance with
the conditions of your licence. (b) You agree that decision of the RSGB Awards Manager
will be final in cases of dispute over eligibility. (c) By submitting a log entry, you give the RSGB
permission to store, process, re-process, score, amend, publish, republish,
print, and otherwise distribute that entry by any means. |
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Adjudicator |
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12.
Administrator |