General Sprint Rules

DATES: This links to our Sprint Schedule.

ELIGIBILITY: Anyone may submit scores, but only members' entries are eligible for awards.

     Membership is free and easy to obtain - get yours here.

MODES: All modes of Hell are allowed

 BANDS: All non-WARC bands are allowed

POWER/REGION CLASS: QRO and QRP winners will be announced in each power category, in both NA and DX.  There may be other classes on an individual sprint basis.

There is a power limit of 100 watts for contest operation.  Thank you for adhering to this rule.

Operators who submit as QRP stations must have worked ONLY QRP for the ENTIRE contest.  QRP Limit is 5 Watts.

When calling, QRP operators should use CALLSIGN/QRP or CALLSIGN QRP to identify their station class.

EXCHANGE: FH #, STATE/PROVINCE/COUNTRY, GRID (QRP, if applicable) - see the sprint rules for that particular sprint.

QSO POINTS: 3 for a each member QSO, 1 for a non-member QSO. 

   You get points for a QSO with the same station on a different band.   

   2 point bonus for QSOs with a QRP station! 

  The 2 point bonus is in addition to the member or non-member points, so yes, it is possible to get 5 points for a QSO, if it is with a member running QRP.

With this scoring system, non-QRP stations have an incentive to make QSOs with QRP stations, and since QRP will only compete against other QRP, their scores should track in the same range.

 MULTIPLIERS: 1 for each U.S. State, Canadian Province or Territory, or DXCC country you contacted during the sprint.

(You do NOT get additional multiplier points for a QSO with the same State, Province, or Country on different bands.

A multiplier is the count of unique S / P / C  that you have contacted during the sprint)

Occasionally, we have different multipliers depending on the sprint.
Please see the monthly Sprint rules for details.

BONUS POINTS: See details for that month's Sprint.

SCORING: We use the following formula, modified for certain sprints:

[(# of first member QSOs on each band * 3) + (# QRP contacts * 2) + (# of first non-member QSOs on each band)] * Multiplier) + Bonus Points

LOG SUBMISSION:  The Feld Hell Club now uses an online Sprint score submission form that now allows you to copy and paste a text log file.

Please try to edit your log to the essential fields only. (cabrillo or text files are great - one line per qso). Please do not send an ADIF file, it takes quite a while to weed through all the non-essential fields to recover information to score the contest.
We need call, band or freq, time, and FH# and grid exchange. Please try to eliminate as many "non qso" lines as possible. For example we don't need qth details, prop index, qsl info, or your station info etc. for each contact.

The link will be available for submissions until the Wednesday following each sprint - (4 day submission period).

The Sprint Committee hopes to then post the final results prior to the end of the week following the sprint..

 ---73 FHC Contest Manager---