First Balkan HST Championship

Bulgarian Federation of Radio Amateurs

Sofia 1000, P.O.Box 830, Bulgaria

E-mail: bfra_hq@hotmail.com  http://www.bfra.org

First Balkan HST Championship

Summer 2013, Bulgaria

Preliminary General Information

First Balkan HST Championship will be organized in Bulgaria in June or July 2013. Its aim will be to attract HST competitors as well as CW operators from all Balkan countries and offer them a relaxed format of the competition that will be relevant to all.

The Championship will be a weekend event with arrival on Friday, competitions on Saturday (whole day) and Sunday (morning), celebration dinner on Saturday, medals giving and departure on Sunday. All official categories (A to I) will be welcome and awarded separately. Each country will be allowed to participate with unlimited number competitors in each category. Team leaders, trainers, visitors etc will be welcome, too.

The program will include 3 tests only, as follows:

-         Callsigns Receiving Test (RUFZ) – according to the official rules. The winner gets 100 points, the rest – proportionally less.

-         Morse Runner Test – according to the official rules. The winner gets 100 points, the rest – proportionally less.

-         Transmission Test – mixed text only, 5 characters in a group, composed of Amateur Radio callsigns, Amateur Radio abbreviations, Q-codes, popular names, popular QTHs, etc. The winner gets 100 points, the rest – proportionally less.

The classification will be individual only; rankings will be in total sum of points earned by the three tests (maximum 300).

The exact dates of the event, the venue and all other details will be fixed by mid-November 2012.

The organizers believe that such format will attract more real radio amateurs and will be an appropriate basis for possible future changes in the Rules for World and Regional championships.