United activity Days of Castles and Fortresses (UDCF)

General regulations

Goal:

Work on the air from historical places, monuments and the architectural constructions relating to fortification to rise of interest to historical and architectural heritage as well as visiting extant historical monuments.

Radio hams of all countries and territories are invited.

Organizers:

International Club WCAG (World Castles Activity Group)

With assistance of :

     AGB (Activity Group of Belarus ), Belarus
     ODXG (OESTE DX Gang), Portugal
     COTA-RU Team (Castles On The Air – Russia Team), Russia
     Radio Club “DELTA”, Ukraine

With the information assistance of:

The weekly newsletter I.C.P.O. Calendar - (Islands, Castles & Portable Operations) by Dave VA3RJ

The K1BV DX Awards Website

Date:

The latest weekend of June (Saturday and Sunday). For 2010, on June, 26th-27th.

Time:

From 04:00 UTC (Saturday) till 10:00 UTC (Sunday). Duration is 30 hours.

Classes:

      A1
-

stations working from fortresses, castles and other historical objects (no more than 1 km from object) – field conditions;

      A2
-

stations working from fortresses, castles and other historical objects (no more than 1 km from object) – field conditions - QRP (no higher than 10 watts output);
      B
-

stations working from fortresses, castles and other historical objects (no more than 1 km from object) – residents;

      C
-
other;
      D
-
SWL.

Bands: HF: 10 – 160 meters (including WARC)

Modes: CW, SSB, DIGITAL

Call:

     «CQ UDCF» - «United activity Days of Castles and Fortresses»

Exchange:

Stations working from fortresses, castles and other historical objects give report and number of object according to WCA-list (Excel file).

Other hams give only report. .

QSOs between participants of group "C" are allowed.

Repeated QSOs :

Repeated QSO on different bands and by different kinds of modes are allowed.

Points:

      QSO with participants of group "A/B" - 5 points;
      QSO with participants of group "C" - 1 point.

Multiplier:

Multiplier is number of objects on each band (only once on each band regardless of modes).

Score:

Score is calculated as sum of points for QSOs multiplied by total number of multipliers.

Awards:

The radio hams scored maximum points in each class (1st-2nd-3th places) are awarded by UDCF’s memorable diplomas-certificates

Radiohams-participants of class "A/B" are awarded by electronic diplomas "WCAA - World Castles Activator Award".

Expedition in class "A" scored maximum points (1 place) is awarded by the plaquette. [tnx RZ1CWC team]

Special prize for radio hams of Ukraine is CD-disk with the story about the main castles of Ukraine. [tnx UR7UT]

Logs:

Logs should be sent:

  - by e-mail: award@wcagroup.org or rn1cw@rambler.ru

  - by post: Andrej A. Petushkov, RN1CW; P.O.Box 340/5, Sosnovyj Bor, Leningrad oblast, 188540, Russia

Additional information :

We invite to co-operating of radio hams, radio clubs, the organisations ready to take active part in this action.

You can ask any questions about activity days, registration of participants and also make your offers and wishes to UDCF-coordinators:

     Jorge CT1FMX jorge.ct1fmx@sapo.pt

     Igor EU1EU eu1eu@mail.ru

     Andrey RN1CW rn1cw@rambler.ru

     Sergey UR7UT ur7ut@mail.ru

The registered participants:

№ Callsign №WCA №Castle Object name Notes
1 CU3HY CT-01560 AZ-094 Espirito Santo
2 LY3IV/p LY-00014   Siesikai Castle 80-40 ì òîëüêî SSB
3 OK1TIR/p OK-00717 PL-067 Spalene Porici  Locator JN69TO
4 OK1BZ OK-01194 US-111 Doubravka Castle op.Jaroslav
5 OK8EU OK-01194 US-111 Doubravka Castle Czech call of EU1EU
6 RA3DCK UA-00064 C-301 Zaraysk Kremlin
7 RZ1CWC/p UA-00203 F-109 Fort Krasnaya Gorka (Alekseevsky) op.RN1CW, UA1CIO, UA1CBW
8 RX1CQ/p UA-00256 U-102 Karelsky Fortified Area Îçåðî Ìåäíîå RLA: LO-016
9 EN1UCF UR-00067 KV-002 Zolotye Gate, Kiev op.UR7UT
10 VA3RJ VE-00228   Fort York Toronto, Ontario
11 YL2IU/p YL-00097   Dynemunde Castle QRP
12 YL2IU/p YL-00098   Fort Pavel QRP
13 YL3GBC/p YL-00097   Dynemunde Castle QRP
14 YL3GBC/p YL-00098   Fort Pavel QRP
15 UR2LM/p UR-00187 HA-013 Kozlovskaya Fortress QRP
16 UT5UKA/p UR-00039 KO-004 Kievsky Fortified Area QRP
17 TM70LM F-02452 57-027 Fort Bambesch Radioclub F8KOI
18 CT1FMX/p CT-01880 LX-221 Forte Novo Da Ordasqueira
19 EA3EGB/P EA-01946 GI-029 Peratallada Castle Locator JN11NX
20 OK2SJI/p OK-00642 PA-043 Zamrsk Castle op.Jirka
21 UY0UY/p UR-00168 ZH-002 Discalced Carmelites Monastery Berdichev
22 DL5AWI/p DL-01491 THB-197 Graues Schloss  
23 DL5AWI/p DL-01492 THB-198 Rotes Schloss  
24 ON7IVO/p ON-00387 AN-021 Bisschoppenhof Castle  
25 4X6DK 4X-00001   Akko Fortress  
26 CU3DX/p CT-01649 AZ-157 Cinco Riberias Azores DX Group
27 OK1LO/p OK-00376 KR-069 Rychnov N. Kneznou  
28 OK1LO/p OK-00638 PA-039 Letohrad (Vaclav. Nam.)  
29 OK1LO/p OK-00640 PA-041 Orlice Castle  
30 UU4JDD/p UR-00174 KR-026 Kerch Fortress  





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