Bulgarian
Federation of Radio Amateurs
Sofia 1000, P.O.Box 830, Bulgaria
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.