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Radio Active Report

Guidelines for the the Rod Fitz-Randolf
N5HV Memorial Radio Active Report

1. The purpose of the Radio Active Report is to track the contest activity of members of the Tennessee Contest Group.

2. The period for the report will be the calendar year. The Radio Active Report will begin anew at the beginning of each calendar year.

3. The operator who has made the most contest QSOs during the calendar year will be recognized as the “Most Radio Active” member of the Tennessee Contest Group.

4. Also, recognition will be made for the operator who participated in the most contests, made the most improvement from the previous year, and most active new operator.

5. Valid QSOs made in any radio contest count towards the report. The radio contest must be open to anyone and whose schedule is posted any universally accepted radio contest calendar. These calendars include, but are not necessarily limited to the ARRL, “CQ magazine”, “The National Contest Journal”, and WA7BNM.

6. QSOs made during multi-op efforts will be scored by one of two methods.
a. Each TCG member participating will receive credit for the total number of QSOs made during the effort divided by the total number operators (TCG members plus non-TCG members) that participated in the effort.
b. The host will maintain a log of actual QSOs made by each operator and report the number of QSOs made by each operator during the effort. Each operator will credit for the actual QSOs he made.

7. It is the intention of the Radio Active Report that all logs for contest QSOs recorded in the report have been submitted to the sponsoring organization.

8. Each operator will submit his scores to the Tennessee Contest Group reflector. The information must include call sign, name of contest, date of contest, and valid QSOs. Multipliers made and score are nice to include for the benefit of other reflector readers.

9. Operators who participate in multi-op efforts at a non-TCG station should report their efforts to the reflector. The post must include The call sign used during the contest, the host’s call sign if different, the total QSOs for the effort and the total number of operators who participated. If several TCG members operate at the same multi-op effort, only one post is necessary as long as all of the participating TCG member’s call signs are included in the post.

10. TCG members who host multi-op efforts should post the call signs of all of the participants along with the QSOs and score. It will be the responsibility of the multi-op participants to make sure the information is properly posted on the TCG reflector so that they get the proper credit for the QSOs.

11. Hosts of multi-op and guest-op efforts will be recognized as the “Most Host” for opening their stations to other operators during contests.

12. The host will get one point credit for a guest-op effort, one point for a multi-op effort where the host makes QSOs during the contest, and two points for a multi-op effort where the host does not make any QSOs during the contest.

13. Either the host or the operator may post the information to the TCG reflector, but it is the responsibility of the host to make sure he gets host credit for the effort

14. The ARRL Field Day is a special event and all TCG members are encouraged to participate. But, due to the large scope of Field Day and the potential difficulty in receiving reliable and accurate information for the Radio Active Report, Field Day will not be included.

15. The Radio Active Report administrator will record the information from the reflector and periodically post summaries. The entire file will be available to anyone who requests it.

16. Awards shall be at the discretion of the leadership of the Tennessee Contest Group.

17. These guidelines are to be fixed for the period of the Radio Active Report. Changes to the guidelines shall be at the discretion of the leadership of the Tennessee Contest Group with input from the membership of the Tennessee Contest Group. Proposed changes must be announced via the reflector to the membership of the Tennessee Contest Group by the end of January during the period of the Radio Active Report to permit comments from the membership. Changes must be finalized and reported via the TCG reflector by the end of February during the period of the report, otherwise the guidelines used for the previous period will be used.