 We wrap up 2009 with a 24-hour Sprint celebrating the birthday of the man who invented Hellschriber, Dr. Rudolph Hell. He was born on December 19th, 1901 in Eggmühl, Bavaria, Germany and worked in Berlin and Kiel as a scientist, engineer and entrepreneur. In 1929, he founded Dr.-Ing. Rudolph Hell GmbH, where he developed the Hell Recoder, a “device for electrically transmitting written characters”; the Klischograph, a printing block and engraving machine; the KF 108 fax machine; the Chromagraph scanner; and the Digiset typesetting machine.
Date: Saturday, December 12th, 2009 (Not Dr. Hell's actual birthday but because of a major RTTY contest occuring on the 19th, we have moved up the date.)
Time: 0000 - 2400 Z
MODES: All modes of Hell are allowed
BANDS: All non-WARC bands are allowed
EXCHANGE: RST, FH #, COUNTRY
POINTS: 3 for a each member QSO, 1 for a non-member QSO. You get points for a QSO with the same ham on a different band.
MULTIPLIERS: 1 for each state, province, or country. You do NOT get multiplier points for a QSO on different bands, only contact points above.
BONUS POINTS:
1) 200 points for your first QSO on each band with a ham in Eggmühl, Bavaria
2) 200 points for your first QSO on each band with a ham in a town named Hell. There's one such town in Michigan (W/K 8), one in Norway (LA), and we also found one on the Grand Cayman Islands (ZF)
3) 100 points goes for your first QSO on each band with a ham in Germany (D)
All other multiplier rules apply (once for each state, province, and country you contact. Contacts with the same state, province, or country on another band does NOT count as another multiplier, but does qualify as another QSO)
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Dec: Happy Birthday Rudolph |