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X-WR-CALNAME:Amateur Radio Contests (Commonwealth Contest (BERU))
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 ot been verified against the sponsor's page yet.
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SUMMARY:Commonwealth Contest (BERU)
DESCRIPTION:Sponsor: RSGB Contest Committee\nModes: CW\nBands: 80m\, 40m\, 
 20m\, 15m\, 10m\nBand note: 3.5\, 7\, 14\, 21 and 28 MHz.\nDuration: 24h\n
 Exchange: RST plus a serial number starting at 1 and incrementing by 1\, i
 rrespective of band. Commonwealth society headquarters stations add 'HQ' a
 fter the serial.\nEligibility: Entry limited to 151 listed entities. K sta
 tions may be worked but cannot submit an entry.\nLogs due: 2027-03-19\nNot
 e: DEFERRED SINCE 2026-08-20 ON ELIGIBILITY\, NOT ON READING\, AND NOW RES
 OLVED. The recurrence and the running were never in doubt\; what blocked i
 t was that the rules restrict entry to 'the Commonwealth Call Area list' a
 nd the rules page does not print that list. Writing an entity_list from ge
 neral knowledge of the Commonwealth would have been this catalog inventing
  a restriction and attributing it to RSGB\, which is the one thing it must
  not do.\n\nRSGB DOES PUBLISH THE LIST -- at hf/information/codes.shtml\, 
 linked from the rules page. The 151 prefixes here are read from that page 
 and are RSGB's own\, not a reconstruction. The lesson generalises: the blo
 cker was a link nobody had followed.\n\nTHE LIST IS PREFIXES\, NOT DXCC EN
 TITIES\, and they are not the same thing. RSGB splits Canada into VE1-VE9\
 , Australia into VK0-VK9\, New Zealand into ZL0-ZL9 and South Africa into 
 ZS0-ZS8\, because a 'call area' is the multiplier and there are several pe
 r country. It also treats England\, Scotland\, Wales\, Northern Ireland\, 
 Jersey\, Guernsey and the Isle of Man as seven separate areas whose contac
 ts with each other score nothing.\n\nA K STATION CANNOT ENTER\, and the pa
 ge now says so in a sentence rather than a paragraph: listing 151 prefixes
  inline produced a wall of text instead of an answer\, so eligibility_for 
 summarises any list longer than eight.\nRules: https://www.rsgbcc.org/hf/r
 ules/2027/rcwc.shtml
URL:https://www.rsgbcc.org/hf/rules/2027/rcwc.shtml
CATEGORIES:CW
STATUS:CONFIRMED
TRANSP:TRANSPARENT
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