Official Rules for the Zombie Shuffle Why: Because Zombies don't sprint. When: Friday Nite, October 24, 2003 Any 4-hour period you choose from your local sundown to local midnight. You can split it into two sessions if interruptions are unavoidable. Just for the record, your local sundown will be 6 p.m. and if your local weather people disagree, I'll zap 'em with a spell!!!! Special DX Rule: operate any 4-hour period as above, or split it into two sessions if you need to, between 2200Z 10/25 to 0700Z 10/26. This includes HI and AK. Special Note: if you're just having too much fun to quit and want to hang out and pass out points, that's fine! Just submit your best 4 hours. But make note of these special contacts in your log so you don't get all confused or something :) Where: 20, 40, and 80 meters Somewhere in the vicinity of the QRP gathering/calling frequencies (14.060, 7.040, 7.110, 3.560, 3.710), be considerate of others because they may not know about Zombies, also spend some time in the Novice frequencies too....all Zombies are brothers in spirit after all. How: CW only QRP only (5 watts or less power out) What do I say: RST, SPC, Zombie number, Name (+ age if /JR) -RST is a signal report -SPC means state, province, or DXCC country -Zombie Number is that series of numbers at the bottom of your Zombie badge....or you can use your local telephone area code if you don't have a Zombie number; please use only one number (if you have more than one Zombie number you might want to use the higher of the two since it's worth more points ;> ) -Name is what everybody calls you....watch it! Notes: if you're a YL op, then send "Elvira" as your name if you're a Junior Zombie station (any op that's 18 yrs or younger, and is a Novice/Tech+ or working with a control operator present, such as an Elmer or someone who is licensed to use the above frequencies) then add /JR after the callsign used and remember to add your age after your name Okay, one more note: everybody decided CQ BOO was fun to use (and a lot shorter) for calling CQ Fun Scoring: Your score is going to be the sum of all Zombie numbers and telephone area codes worked on ALL bands! Stations can only be worked once per band however. Then you're going to add in all the special bonus points and stuff to arrive at a really big score! Use the Official Zombie Score Sheet... it's a whole lot easier than trying to explain it all here. Okay, now what: Send your completed score sheets (only) by December 1, 2003, to the Contest Coroner below via snail mail or e-mail. Who's the Contest Coroner: Well, that'd be lil ol' me... Jan Harden, N0QT Zombie Shuffle Contest Coroner PO Box 1768 Socorro NM 87801 You can e-mail your score sheet to the Contest Coroner... Please use plain ASCII text ONLY!!!! No fancy-schmancy stuff (like html or word processor documents and spreadsheets or jpg files or anything) because it will be deleted by the system. Be sure to put your Callsign and "Zombie Shuffle" in the subject line and send it to: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 72 and Ghouled Luck in the contest! Jan, N0QT