RULES

1.- OBJECTIVE: For Amateurs around the world to contact other amateurs and exchange QSO information with as
many stations as possible. Any station may work any other station on different bands.
The call will be CQ XE TEST or CQ MEXICO TEST.

2.- CONTEST PERIOD: Begins 12:00 UTC Saturday February 4, 2023, ends 23:59 UTC Sunday February 5, 2023.
The participants can operate the full 36 hours. *** New Time frame of 36 Hours ***

3.- MODE: Baudot RTTY only.

4.- BANDS: All amateur bands, 3.5 to 28 MHz. (WARC Prohibited.)

5.- ENTRY CATEGORIES: a) Single Operator All Band Low Power b) Single Operator All Band High Power. SO2R
Operation Allowed.

6.- EXCHANGE:
Mexican Amateurs: Signal report and State.
DX: Signal report and serial number, starting with 001

7.- SCORING:
(A) QSO Points: Count two points for each completed QSO in the same country. Count three points for each
completed QSO in different country. Count four points with any XE station.
(B) Multiplier: Count only once, each Mexico states and Distrito Federal (32 entities) and each DXCC country in
each band worked. Mexico do not count as DXCC country.

8.- LOG INSTRUCTIONS
(A) Electronic log submission ONLY
(B) Please submit your log in the Cabrillo file format, as Attachment to: rtty@fmre.mx.
(C) Any other email used to send Cabrillo will be ignored
(D) Be sure to put ONLY your station Callsign on the subject of the Email, additional characters will make the
robot rejects your log. This is an automatic procedure.
(E) Indicate your category, Low or High Power
(F) Deadline to receive electronic logs is March 16, 2023. After that date will be taken as Checklog.
(G) We suggest to use N1MM Logger, MIXW, Writelog or DXLOG; if any other contest software is used, you can
convert your log here: http://sp7dqr.pl/en/converters.php
(H) New page for Web Upload:
https://www.rtty.fmre.mx/uploadfile.html

9.- AWARDS: Electronic Certificates will be to every participant, and will be available to downlad once the final results
become public. The page to consult results, and download certificates is: www.rtty.fmre.mx. No awards will be send via
regular mail

10- FINAL RESULTS: The final results will be published on the official contest web page: www.rtty.fmre.mx .

12.- COMMENTS OR SUGGESTIONS: To any doubt, suggestion or question, please use this Email::
rttymanager@fmre.mx
XE1EE
FMRE RTTY Contest Manager
XE1JEG
XE1SY
MEXICAN STATES AND ABBREVIATION
AGUASCALIENTES AGS BAJA CALIFORNIA BC BAJA CALIFORNIA SUR BCS CAMPECHE CAM
CHIAPAS CHS CHIHUAHUA CHH COAHUILA COA COLIMA COL
CIUDAD DE MEXICO CDMX ESTADO DE MEXICO EMX DURANGO DGO GUANAJUATO GTO
GUERRERO GRO HIDALGO HGO JALISCO JAL MICHOACAN MIC
MORELOS MOR NAYARIT NAY NUEVO LEON NL OAXACA OAX
PUEBLA PUE QUERETARO QRO QUINTANA ROO QTR SAN LUIS POTOSI SLP
SINALOA SIN SONORA SON TABASCO TAB TAMAULIPAS TMS
TLAXCALA TLX VERACRUZ VER YUCATAN YUC ZACATECAS ZAC