Announcement – OK/OM Activity Contest is open to International Stations

In order to encourage greater participation of stations outside of OK/OM in the OK/OM Activity Contest CRC has decided that commencing 01. January 2009, categories of stations outside OK/OM will be created. (Under rules as published on the web at www.crk.cz and www.ok1kpa.com . – http://ok1kpa.com/pa/rules.pdf – results http://ok1kpa.com/pa/ )

Winners will receive awards as prescribed by OK/OM rules. Results are published on the website of OK1KPA a few days after the contest. In addition winners will receive a sponsored trophy. Separate trophies in Single/Multi op categories will be given out where there are more than 20 participants in each.

This step was taken to motivate stations outside OK/OM to be involved in the event. EDR took similar steps a couple of years back in order to increase participation of stations outside of Scandinavia in NAC with great success. The OK/OM Activity Contest has been held monthly over 40 years, with basically unchanged rules. It is anticipated that well over 150 OK+OM stations in each round (on 144 MHz ) will participate in the contest. The contest uses on VHF “specific” scoring system – see the rules – which is fully supported by free logging programs Locator (by OK1DUO), VUSC (by OK1DIX) and, for Linux fans, Tucnak (by OK1ZIA). The first two can import EDI files created by your favorite logger and recalculate into the activity contest scoring. The scoring system was created over forty years ago to allow easy final scoring without a computer (and a measure+map those days). It is maintained to this day both for the sake of tradition, and to allow easy portable operation.

October 2008, Czech Radio Club

Please spread out this information in your country. Thanks Karel OK2ZI