GEM Net World Wide Contest   "GEM" is acronym for General Emergency Medical Net conducted daily on 7.080 Khz at 22.00hrs (16.30 UTC) in India to handle General, Emergency and Medical Traffic.    This contest is to celebrate the World Amateur Radio Day on 18th April, 2004 and 15 years of GEM Net on September 21, 2004 and to popularize it all over the world and help the needy people with Emergency Nets.   1. Eligibility: All licensed amateurs worldwide. 2. Object: To contact as many other amateurs, around the world on 40, 20, 15 and 10 meter bands. 3. Date and Contest Period: The third full weekend of April, Beginning 1200 UTC (5.30 pm IST) Saturday and Ending 1200 UTC (5.30 pm IST) Sunday Apr 17-18, 2004 All stations may operate the entire 24-hour period. 4. Entry Categories: 4.1. Single Operator: Categories. 4.1. Phone only 4.2. CW only 4.3. Mixed mode (Phone & CW) 4.2 Short Wave Listeners: For SWLs who have to report on contest QS0s 5. Contest Exchange: All stations send signal report and serial number. 6. Valid Contact: 6.1. The same station may be worked only once per mode per band for QSO credit. 6.2. Cross mode, cross band and repeater contacts are not valid QSOs. 7. QSO Points: 7.1. Contacts within your own DXCC Country count one point. 7.2. Contacts with a different DXCC Country count five points. 8. Multipliers: The total number of DXCC Countries worked 9. Scoring: The total number of QSO points times the total number of multipliers worked. Example: Number of QSO points made: 200 Number of DXCC Country’s worked : 50 Total Points : 200 x 50 : 10,000 points 10. Reporting: 10.1. Entries must be postmarked on or before May 31, 2004. 10.2. Electronic entries must conform to the MS Excel / Access. 10.2.1. Any entry which has been generated using a computer must be submitted as an attachment to an email to:                                E-mail: gemnetindia@yahoo.com 10.2.2. Electronic files must use the entrant’s callsign as the file name. 10.2.3. Email entries must include the callsign used during the contest on the SUBJECT line of the email. 10.3. Paper logs must be in chronological order, not separated by bands, and clearly indicate for each contact: band, mode, date, time (in UTC), callsign, complete exchanges sent and received, multipliers and QSO points. 10.4. Multipliers should be marked in the log only for the first time they are worked. 10.5. Duplicate contacts should be marked in the log sheet. 10.6. All entries must include an official summary (Contacts, Multipliers, Final Score) sheet. 10.7. Stations using Home Brew equipment must clearly mark it on the log with brief description of their station. 10.8. Entries should be mailed to: Mailing address: GEM Net World Wide Contest National Institute of Amateur Radio Raj Bhavan Road, Somajiguda, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh India 500082 11. Awards: 11.1. A certificate will be awarded to the high scoring entry in each category. 11.2 A certificate will be issued to top scorers making contacts with Home Brew equipment for special category award. 11.3. A certificate will be issued to those making at least 100 QSOs. 11.4. All Participants who sends their entry will receive participation certificate. 11.5. All SWL’s sending entries will also receive a certificate. 12. Conditions of Entry: Each entrant agrees to be bound by the provisions of this announcement, by the regulations of his/her licensing authority, and by the decisions of the GEM Net World Wide Contest Committee. 13. Disqualification: Any entry may be disqualified if more than 2% of duplicate QSOs are left in the log and claimed for credit. One-QSO reduction will be assessed for each duplicate QSO found during log checking or for miscopied callsigns in logs. National Institute of Amateur Radio, India (VU2NRO) staff are not eligible for prizes. 14. Information Contest forms/information/results may be downloaded at: www.niar.org/gemnet/contest.html     PDF Format