INTERNATIONAL
ENIGMA RELOADED AWARD
EIGHT EDITION - 2024
From September 27th to October 4th
2024
DURATION PERIOD &
DATES
- Start on
Sept. 27th 2023 at 07:00 UTC, in conjunction with the “European
Researcher’s Night”;
- End on Oct. 4th 2024, at 23:59 UTC;
The complete program of the event is available on the website:
www.enigma-reloaded.it
The official list of the Activating Stations will be published on the website :
www.enigma-reloaded.it .
The only award’s participation categories are OM and SWL, each with an his own ranking.
The requirement to be an “Activating Station” is to be paired with an original Enigma machine, (even if not working). At registration (list published on www.enigma-reloaded.it) each Activating Station is required to declare the name of the museum or cultural institution where the machine is located.
For private collectors or owners, the relevant district or region area will be accepted as an information any additional detail will be appreciated, but not mandatory.
The Activating Stations do not run for the award, but will get a special participation certificate.
For participants as NOT Activating Stations no log is required to be sent: the overall QSO Data Base of the contacted stations will be obtained by merging all logs coming from each Activating Station, and the score of each participant will be calculated from this Data Base.
QSO / HRD RULES
QSOs and HRDs are
allowed only the HF bands: 10-12-15-17-20-30-40-60-80-160
meters, using the emission modes Phone (SSB), CW and all
admitted digital modes (E.g. : RTTY, FT8,FT4, JT65, JT9, PSK).
Contacts by means of repeaters, trasponders or similar systems
are not permitted.
A QSO or HRD is considered as valid only if between an
Activating Station and a radio amateur not Activating station,
with the exchange of the RS(T) report.
For the entire duration of the award, each Activating Station
can be contacted or heard only once per day on the same band and
with the same emission mode: any contact or HRD between the same
stations on the same day, on the same band and using the same
emission mode will be considered as a “DUPE”, and its score will
be set to zero.
PACKET CLUSTER SPOTTING AND
SELF SPOTTING
Spotting on Packet Cluster is permitted, with the only exception
of “self spotting” by Activating Stations, that is: spotting on
the Packet Cluster by an Activating Station with his own call
sign is NOT permitted.
AWARD’s CERTIFICATES
An Award Certificate will be assigned to all radioamateur
stations having reached the minimum score required of 10 points,
as defined in this document.
The following
scores will be assigned to each valid (NOT dupe) QSO or HRD:
A) For QRP stations (Power ≤ 5 W): 2 points;
B) For NOT QRP stations (Power > 5 W): 1 point.
MULTIPLIERS: Each contacted or heard Activating station counts
as 1 multiplier.
SCORE: The total score P is calculated by multiplying the total
number N of valid
QSOs / HRDs by the sum M of all multipliers: P = N ● M
To get a score
ranking certificate, a score of at least 10 points must be
achieved.
SWL
SWL stations are kindly requested to send their log ( HRD
Report), in ADIF format only, to the e – mail address
info<at>enigma-reloaded.it
within October, 31.
Available from November at:
Each participant will be enabled to check his/her QSO number and
ranking score by editing his/her call sign.
For bilateral QSOs, If the minimum required score is reached,
the award certificate will be downloadable from the website
www.arifidenza.it as a PDF file.
For SWL, the award certificate will be sent directly to their e
– mail address.
FINAL REMARKS
Any decisions taken by
the A.R.I. Fidenza Award’s Committee, encharged of the judgement
on the logs and the relevant score, will be final and
unappelable.
Any participant not adhering to the rules stated in this
document will be liable to disqualification.
As general ruling system, the common practice, customs and
conventions usually adopted within the Amateur Radio Community
and Radio competitions hold.
Any information not explicitely stated in this document, as well
as any additional information if needed, will be published on
the official website www.enigma-reloaded.it.
The participants are kindly requested to refer to this website
for any clarification request regarding the award.