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How to Get Entry Forms Official entry forms and complete rules for ARRL contests are available electronically from several sources: · From the ARRL Internet Infoserver. Send an e-mail message to info@arrl.org. The subject line is ignored. Enter the following text in the body of your message: HELP SEND EME.FRM QUIT · From the ARRL's World Wide Web home page, at http://www.arrl.org/contests/forms.

1. Object: Two-way communications via the earth-moon-earth path on any authorized amateur frequency above 50 MHz.

2. Date and Contest Period: Two full weekends, full 48-hour period UTC each weekend (one in October, one in December -- TBD).

3. Entry Categories:

3.1. Single Operator: One person performs all operating and logging functions, equipment adjustment and antenna alignment.
3.1.1. Multiband.

3.1.2. Single Band: Single-band entries on 50, 144, 222, 432, 902 and 1296-and-up categories will be recognized in awards offered. Contacts may be made on any and all bands without jeopardizing single-band entry status. Such additional contacts are encouraged and should be reported. Also see Rule 8, Awards.

3.2. Multioperator: Two or more persons participate; includes neighboring amateurs within one call area, but with EME facilities for different bands on different team members' premises, as long as no two are more than 50 km (30 miles) apart. Multioperator neighborhood groups cannot use the same call signs at each location; all calls will be listed in the results.

3.3. Commercial equipment: Stations using equipment that is not amateur (such as a dish antenna for lab equipment owned by an institution or government agency) will have their scores listed separately.

5. Scoring:

5.1. QSO Points: Count 100 points for each complete EME contact.

5.2. Multiplier: Each US and Canadian call area, plus each DXCC country (not US/Canada) worked via EME on each band.

5.3. Final Score: Multiply QSO points by sum of multipliers worked on each band for your final score.

6.1. Fixed or portable operation is permitted. Stations operating outside traditional call areas must indicate so, identifying the call area of the operating site.

6.2. Contacts may be on CW or SSB. Only one signal per band is permitted.

6.3. A transmitter, receiver or antenna used to contact one or more stations under one call sign may not be used subsequently under any other call sign during the contest, except for family stations where more than one call has been issued, and then only if the second call sign is used by a different operator.

6.4. There is no specified minimum terrestrial distance for contacts, but all communications must be copied over the moonbounce path, regardless of how strong (or weak) a nearby station's terrestrial signal may be.

EME Participation Pins Would you like to be sure that you will receive an award when you send your International EME Competition log to HQ? Here's an award you can earn, whether you're a first timer or a weathered veteran of the sport. The ARRL is offering a handsome EME participation pin to qualified participants in the ARRL International EME Competition. Anyone who makes at least one contact during the 1999 ARRL International EME Competition will qualify for an EME participation pin. Also all the individual operators of a multioperator station are eligible for their own pins. The handsome pin is marked with the year, making it a possible collector's item. Don't miss the chance to be among the first to have them! Wear them proudly in support of the International EME Competition. To order, include with your log entry: (1) a mailing label (preferably self-adhesive label). (2) A check or money order for $5 for each pin, payable to the ARRL (includes the price of the pin, packaging, padded envelope and postage). Your pin will be shipped after your contacts have been verified and the results printed in QST.

8. Awards:

8.1. Certificates will be issued to the top five stations worldwide in each of the entry categories: single operator, multiband; single operator, single band (separate awards for each band); and multioperator.

8.2. Additional awards will be issued where significant achievement or competition is evident. In addition, each station that successfully completes at least one EME contact during the contest period will receive a certificate commemorating that achievement.

8.3. Participation Pins

8.3.1. Available, while supply lasts, to all who make at least 1 contact during the contest.

8.3.2. This includes all operators of qualifying multioperator efforts.

8.3.3. Send order to: ARRL Contest Branch, 225 Main St, Newington, CT 06111.

8.3.3.1.Price is $5 for each pin.

8.3.3.2.Make check or money order payable to the ARRL (no cash please).

8.3.3.3.Include a return mailing label (preferably a self-adhesive type).