Diploma "The First Victory of the Russian Fleet"

The diploma was established by the Russian Telegraph Club (R-CW-C). The diploma is awarded for contacts with amateur radio stations - members of the club R-CW-C, participating in the Telegraph Marathon in 2018 and dedicated to a landmark event - the 304th anniversary of the first victory of the Russian Navy.

The Gangut battle - the naval battle of the Great Northern War of 1700-1721, held on July 27 (August 7), 1714 near Cape Gangut (Hanko Peninsula, Finland) in the Baltic Sea between the Russian army fleet and a Swedish detachment of 10 vessels, the first in the history of Russia the victory of the Russian fleet.

In memory of it, a holiday was instituted - the Day of Russia's Military Glory, which is celebrated annually on August 9

Time of the fulfilment of the conditions of the diploma:

- beginning: July 21, 2018 (00:00 MSK);

- ending: August 5, 2018 (23:59 Moscow time).

Modulation: Telegraph (CW)

Bands: 10, 12, 15, 17, 20, 30, 40, 80, 160 meters.

Diplomas are free and issued electronically to all radio amateurs of the world who have fulfilled its conditions.

Amateur radio stations - members of the club R-CW-C (activators) will be working on the HF bands on the air in the specified period of time. Modulation - CW. The format of the general call is CQ CALL ... CQ CALL TM RCWC.

Contacts with each of the activators are counted on different bands, and on each of them once.

Terms of fulfilment:

To organize the work of amateur radio stations within the framework of the rally and telegraph marathon, as well as automated download of completed diplomas, the RCWCLog service is organized on the rcwc.ru website.

Activators at the end of each session on the air fill their logs in the database of the service. Repeated contacts: (Worked + Call + Band coincidences) are tracked at the time of filling and automatically deleted by the ROBOT, leaving the connection first in date and time.

Note: Communication with an activator radio station operating under special conditions and having an optional fractional part (/M, /P, /QRP) in its callsign is counted as a connection to the callsign without this optional fractional part, ie R4CP/6, R4CP/6/M, R4CP/6/P - in the telegraph marathon are considered one callsign and are entered in RCWCLog as R4CP/6. Accordingly, R4CP/6 and R4CP are two different callsigns.

Logs are available for viewing to all radio amateurs both registered on the site and to the guests of the club.

RCWC Log uses the UTC time.

Contact with the club radio station R4CP/6 gives the competitor 10 points.

Contact with the radio stations located on the ships UA6GO/MM and KC7JEF/MM brings the applicant 10 points each.

Each radio contact with other activators gives the competitor 1 point.

The diploma has 3 degrees:

- for a diploma of the third degree you need to score 30 points;

- for a diploma of the 2nd degree you need to score 40 points;

- for a diploma of the 1st degree you need to score 50 points.

You can check the progress of the terms of the diploma at the RCWCLog service of rcwc.ru.

If the conditions of the diploma are fulfilled by the competitor, then the function of automatic diploma downloading is activated for him.

Notes:

- Observers wishing to receive diplomas should send an application in free form to the diploma manager on E-Mail: rm4c@mail.ru.

- For questions concerning the operation of the whole RCWCLog service and the diploma downloads, contact Stepanov Sergey (RM4C) on E-Mail: rm4c@mail.ru

- You can learn more about the operation of the RCWCLog service in the instructions for the Telegraph Marathon for 2017 under the link http://rcwc.ru/2276-instrukciya-polzovatelya-rcwclog.html

When reading this, it should be borne in mind that instead of special callsigns this year in the marathon the personal callsigns of the participants-activators will sound.

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