IMHO, nothing else in life (unless it was divorce #2) comes close to the
excitement, frustration, and fun of an RTTY sprint! Lets keep on
sprinting along.
W0ETC
On Thu, 9 Jan 2003 07:11:11 -0500 "WA9ALS - John" <wa9als@starband.net>
writes:
> From Carl K9LA - NCJ Editor
>
> NCJ sponsors four RTTY contests per year - two NAQP RTTY contests
> (February
> and now July) and two RTTY Sprint contests (March and October).
>
> Participation in the NAQP RTTY contests is healthy. For example,
> over 160
> logs were received for the July 2002 NAQP RTTY contest (as reported
> in the
> November/December 2002 NCJ).
>
> But participation in the RTTY Sprints is not as healthy. The number
> of logs
> received in years past is as follows:
>
> Mar 00 20
> Oct 00 20
> Mar 01 30
> Oct 01 37
> Mar 02 32
> Oct 02 43
>
> This averages to 30 logs per event. Although the trend has increased
> in the
> past year (perhaps due to the new rule that you can work the same
> station
> again, even on the same band, as long as these QSOs are separated by
> 3 other
> QSOs), this is still a small number of logs.
>
> As a reference point, the January 2002 NAQP CW and Phone contests
> each
> received around 350 logs, while the September 2002 CW and Phone
> Sprints each
> received roughly half as many. Thus the participation in the RTTY
> Sprints
> compared to the NAQP RTTYs is way out of proportion compared to the
> CW and
> Phone counterparts.
>
> I'd like your comments on several questions. Should NCJ continue to
> offer
> RTTY Sprints? Have other RTTY contests become more attractive? Would
> just
> having the NAQP RTTY contests be sufficient to satisfy your RTTY
> contesting
> desires?
>
> Thanks for your input. John WA9ALS (RTTY Contesting columnist for
> NCJ) will
> forward your inputs to me.
>
> Carl K9LA
>
>
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