That sure seems right. The same reason that you can work dupes in the RTTY
sprint. RTTY contests are getting much more popular, however. Thanks in no
small part to soundcards and the software that uses them. Before I
discovered N1MM and MMTTY, I would have thought that RTTY would be nothing
but too much trouble to bother with. It can be pretty fun, actually.
--
73, Craig Cook - N7OR in Sandy, OR
On 12/1/05, Richard DiDonna NN3W <NN3W@prodigy.net> wrote:
>
> This may be true, but isn't part of the rationale to
> significantly increase participation in a type of
> contest (RTTY) that is otherwise a distant third to
> the CW and phone tests?
>
> 73 Rich NN3W
>
> --- Original Message ---
> From: "Joe Subich, W4TV" <k4ik@subich.com>
> To: <cq-contest@contesting.com>
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Another view for 1-pointers
>
> >
> >K4XS writes:
> >
> >> Possible solution: dissolve the lower 48 US into 48
> >> countries, about equal to EU. That would be fun, at
> >> least for CQWW.
> >
> >Bill, the solution is to adopt the CQWW RTTY scoring
> rules.
> >In CQWW RTTY, "own country QSOs" are worth one
> point. In
> >addition US States and VE Provinces are multipliers.
> Those
> >changes would put US stations on (almost) even
> footing with
> >European stations and would put the Caribbean/northern
> >South America on an (almost) even footing with IH9,
> CAN,
> >EA9, EA8, ZD8, etc.
> >
> >73,
> >
> > ... Joe, W4TV
> >
> >
> >
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