24th contest: 12:00 UTC 14.02.2026 - 11:59 UTC 15.02.2026

The output power should not exceed 10 watts on 160 meters and 100 watts on other bands.Only one signal is allowed at any one time.

Bands:
Contest participants are allowed to work on 160 meters (1.8 MHz), 80 meters (3.5 MHz), 40 meters (7 MHz), 20 meters (14 MHz), 15 meters (21 MHz) and 10 meters (28 MHz).
RDRC recommends the following frequencies MHz: 1.840 - 1.843, 3.580 - 3.600, 7.040 - 7.050, 14.070 - 14.090, 21.070 - 21.090, 28.070- 28.090.

Categories (subgroup):
• MOAB - MULTI-ONE - Multi-Operator, Single Transmitter, All Bands - Club stations and SES stations:
   - World - only continents, all the countries except for Russia,
   - European Russia,
   - Asiatic Russia;
• SOAB - SINGLE-OP ALL - Single-Operator, All Bands:
   - World - only continents, all the countries except for Russia,
   - European Russia,
   - Asiatic Russia;
• SOSB - SINGLE-OP 160M; SINGLE-OP 80M; SINGLE-OP 40M; SINGLE-OP 20M; SINGLE-OP 15M; SINGLE-OP 10M - Single Operator, Single Band:
   - World - only continents, all the countries except for Russia,
   - European Russia,
   - Asiatic Russia;

Note: The participants can be declared only one subgroup. Participants can work on all bands and be declared at the choice either in SOAB, or in one of one-band subgroups SOSB. At declared in SOSB the judicial program does not check quantity change the bands.

Note MOAB: 2nd - 10th operators with their personal or SWL callsigns can form a team. Personal callsigns should be necessarily specified. 

Number Exchange:
Participants from Russia, and also the foreign radioamateurs who are being in territory of Russia, should send RS,RST(Q) plus 2-letter abbreviation of Russian Area (oblast) Code (example for Moscow region – 599 MA). The list of Russia areas and their symbols look in the appendix on this page (in the end of the text of rules position). Participants from other countries and territories of the world (except for Russia), should send RS,RST(Q) plus QSO number, starting 001 (example - 599 001). The numeration on bands is current.General call - "CQ RUSTEST".

The repeated contacts are permitted on different bands and different modes providing that a contact will be made not earlier than in 3 minutes. The contact with correspondent who has not sent the report can be accepted if the callsign of the correspondent can be met not less than in three different reports.

Points:
Each contact between stations on 20, 15 and 10 m is worth:
- inside the country - 1 point;
- with other country - 3 points;
- with other continents - 5 points.
The points on 160, 80 and 40 m are doubled.

Multiplier:
The multiplier are the countries according to the list of DXCC and Russian areas on each band.

Scoring:
The final score is the result of the total points multiplied by the sum of multipliers.

Prizes and Awards:
Gallery of prizes and certificates: http://www.rdrclub.ru/gallery-prizes-rdrc

Awards in electronic type will be awarded to:

Certificates will be issued to all participants on the website ua9qcq.com. To download your certificate, you must be a registered user ua9qcq.com. Each of the team members can receive personal certificates if the list of operators is indicated in the report.

Log Instructions:
PSK modes in Cabrillo file must be identified as follows:

BPSK31   - PS

BPSK63   - PM

BPSK125 - PO

Name your Cabrillo file as your callsign (for example – R3BB.cbr, R3BB.log or R3BB.txt).
You may send your log via the Web interface: https://ua9qcq.com/submit_log.php   
GRID-LOCATOR station data of your log must exhibit complete QTH locator (6 digits), showing your exact location at the time of the contest.
email:  rusww(at)rdrclub.ru  (at)=@

All logs must be sent no later than 5 days after the contest.

SAMPLE of CABRILLO:  

START-OF-LOG: 3.0
CONTEST: RUS-WW-PSK
CALLSIGN: UN7KP
CATEGORY-OPERATOR: SINGLE-OP
CATEGORY-BAND: ALL
CLAIMED-SCORE: 20
EMAIL: un7kp(at)mail.org
LOCATION:
GRID-LOCATOR: MO51RC
CLUB: RDRC
CREATED-BY: MixW
NAME: Victor S. Ivanov (for participants 20 years are younger to name date of a birth)
ADDRESS: Box 20, Alma-Aty, 123456, Kazachstan
OPERATORS: UN7KP
SOAPBOX: tranciver and antenna, for /P - to specify the power supply, WWLoc and Area
SOAPBOX: MY FIRST DIGI CONTEST - to specify, if it is your first Digi-contest
QSO: 14075 PS 2015-02-22 0208 UN7KP         599 001    R7JA          599 SO
QSO: 21077 PM 2015-02-22 0211 UN7KP         599 002    OZ4AS         599 073
QSO: 21075 PO 2015-02-22 0213 UN7KP         599 003    RW6MOL        599 RO
END-OF-LOG:

Address of Log report:
You should send your log upload via the Web interface: https://ua9qcq.com/submit_log.php   
GRID-LOCATOR station data of your log must exhibit complete QTH locator (6 digits), showing your exact location at the time of the contest.
email:  rusww(at)rdrclub.ru  (at)=@

Last date of Log report:
23:59 UTC 20 February 2026

Allowed correspondents:
Amateur radio operators from Russia and other countries of the world may participate in the competition.

Disqualification:
The Contest Committee will use the mechanism of monitoring of air for the purpose of revealing of the participants who operate with exceeding of admissible IMD norms, creating considerable QRM and breaking the Rules of the given competitions.

The basis for disqualification can be:

1. The operation with excess of admissible bandwidth of BPSK31,63,125 signal  due to overloads, intermodulation, harmonics of a sound card and other reasons.

The Contest Committee will declare the prevention (a yellow card) to the participant for one fixed infringement on quality of a signal on the basis of spectrograms-screenshots. The prevention entails the penalty - 30 % of points will be removed in results from result of the infringer. Besides for the prevention certificates and prizes will not be given out.

The Contest Committee will declare DQ (a red card)to participants who will be recorded twice in a time interval not less than 15 minutes with quality of transmitting signal on scale Q<7: http://ham.stackexchange.com/questions/548/digital-mode-signal-reports and worth, with inadmissible bandwidth of signal in Hz visible on “waterfall” and under condition of presence of a level of air noise on the time-and-frequency diagram.

2. The excess of the output power stipulated by given Rules.

3. Transmitted of two and more signals to one moment of time.

4. The use for transmitting of a control number not corresponding to the Rules of contest.

5. Not the message in the cabrillo report of data on a QTH of radio station.

6. Work from territory of Russia the call signs which have been not stipulated by regulating documents of Ministry of Communications and GRFC of Russia.

7. More than 30 % of not confirmed QSOs.

8. Unsporting behaviour during contest.

The results of the infringers will be cancelled. The appeals are not accepted!

Software for working in contest:

Russian WW PSK Contest is supported with the following software:

- MixW от UT2UZ  www.mixw.net .

  DLL for this contest to download here: StatsRUSWWPSK.zip
 
  Adjusting MixW for RUS-WW-PSK (rus):
  http://www.rdrclub.ru/index.php/nastrojka-kontest-programm/57-nastrojka-mixw

- N1MM  www.n1mm.hamdocs.com
  In the basic list of tests N1MM choose -> RUS-WW-PSK

- UR5EQF_logот UR5EQF http://ur5eqf.ru ,  forum ur5eqf_log

  DLL for this contest to download here: http://ur5eqf.ru/download/cs/RussianWWPSKContest.rar

- AATest от RZ4AG  www.dxsoft.com

- 5MContest  http://5mcontest.qrz.ru

- RCKLog DL4RCK  www.dl4rck.de

When preparing to the contest read the items of Russian WW PSK Contest Rules attentively and do not make mistakes when you work on the air or make up a report. Before sending a report file in Cabrillo format, please compare it to the sample and check the identity of modes to PS, PM, PO.

Please check up whether "head" of the report is made properly, if there are test subgroup or subgroups, your address, e-mail and all other data in it. At reception of the report you receive the standard answer from the post robot.

We wish you great success and enjoyable participation in our contest!

Designation of 89 territories of Russia and 2 territories Russian stations of Antarctic and Franz Joseph Land, and distribution of figure of a prefix and the first letter of a suffix in call signs