RULES DX Holiday introduces the SCUBA HAM AWARD, the diploma of amateur radio scuba divers, with the sponsorship of Mediterraneo DX Club. Participation: any world-wide OM and SWL can participate. Starts: 00:00 UTC on February 1st 2021 Ends: 23:59 UTC on February 28th 2021 Bands: 160 – 80 – 40 – 20 – 15 – 10 meters Modes: SSB,CW, DIGITAL Calling: SCUBA HAM’s stations will call CQ Scuba Ham Award on phone, CQ Scuba on CW and DIGITAL. Score: SCUBA HAM’s stations will send RST report plus a letter indicating the scuba diver certification owned. The category letter must be indicated on the NOTE row on your log. Example: IK5XXX, SCUBA HAM station, will send 599 I to IK4XXZ on CW. IK5XXX is a diving instructor and the score is 6 points. A Scuba Ham station may be worked once on each band and mode for a QSO point credit. Contacts on FM, via relay or packet radio are not allowed. The final score will be calculated adding the score of each single contact. Please follow the table for the score to each contact. Scuba Ham List: all the amateur radio with a scuba diving certification can subscribe to the list, there is no time limit. Subscription is free of charge. Please fee free to send us a copy of your diving certification to our e-mail address dxholidayinfo@gmail.com. Awards: certificates will be awarded in each category as below: 1st, 2nd, 3rd world-wide SSB 1st, 2nd, 3rd world-wide CW 1st, 2nd, 3rd world-wide DIGITAL 1st, 2nd, 3rd world-wide MIXED 1st world-wide SWL Certificates PDF for all stations who will send a log. Scuba Ham stations will be awarded as below: 1st Scuba Ham SSB 1st Scuba Ham CW 1st Scuba Ham DIGITAL 1st Scuba Ham MIXED Certificates PDF for all Scuba Ham stations who will send a log. Logs: electronic submission of logs is required for all entrants, in ADIF format. Dead line 15 March 2021. Filenames used must be: yourcall.ADIF Prizes: winners in each category will receive communication via e-mail from DX Holiday. The winners may require their award via e-mail until 30th April 2021. The cost of the certification award is 12€ (twelve Euros) for shipping in Italy, 16€ (sixteen Euros) for shipping in Europe, 19€ (nineteen Euros) for extra-European countries. Please send only Euros, different currencies are invalid. Please send the amount using our PayPal account dxholidayinfo@gmail.com. Please fill free to contact us if you want use an international wire transfer. Please download the rules in pdf from our web site https://www.dx-holiday.com/scuba-ham-award/ 73 de 5R8UI & IK5ZUI Michele Imparato
