The International Police Association Radio Club (IPARC) invites all radio amateurs of the world to take part in the IPARC-Contest which takes place every year on the first weekend in November.

1. Modes and times:

2. Bands:

There are no contest qso allowed outside of the above-mentioned frequency ranges referring to IARU Region 1 HF bandplan!

NEW: It is no longer required to stay 15 minutes on a band, you may change the band at any time.

3. Sections:

A - Multi/Multi, Multi/Single, every club station and special event station
B - Single Op / Single TRX (personal call sign only, no assistance)
C - SWL

Remarks: No differentiation between members of IPARC and non-members.
The section must be seen from the log.
Winners are the first three stations of each class.

4. Calling: CQ IPA Contest

5. Exchange: RS(T) + current number, each mode beginning with 001.
Members of IPARC in addition "IPA", IPARC-members of the USA also their state. Exchanging a rapport is allowed once on every band and in every mode.
Generally, it is allowed to operate only with one call sign. Exchanging two rapports with club stations and in addition their operators is allowed for award hunting, but does count only once for the contest.

6. Points:

- QSO-points: each QSO 1 point, each IPARC-station 5 points.
- Multiplier: each DXCC with IPARC-station / US-State with IPARC-station 1 point on each band.
- Score: each band: summary of QSO-points multiplied by summary of multi-points
- final result: summary of all bands

7. Closing date: 31. December 2016. The final result and further details are available on the homepage www.iparc.de or via the contestmanager.

8. Contestmanager: Uwe Greggersen, DJ6QQ, Hurststr. 9, 51645 Gummersbach, Germany - E-mail: dj6qq"at"darc.de

9. Remarks: This contest is a good chance to work the Sherlock-Holmes-Awards and Sherlock-

Holmes-Trophies. It is not longer required to work the awards step by step! More infos are available on the homepage or by the award-manager: Roland Starke, DL9GMN, Lindhorstweg 17, 18512 Suederholz, Germany - E-mail: dl9gmn"at"darc.de