Hello John,
I concur with others who have expressed opinions regarding moving BARTG HF
into June. Not only is propagation better earlier in the year, but June is a
prime time in the USA for high school and college graduations, which
certainly overshadow any radio activities. The radiosport is pretty much an
"indoor" sport and I believe you will have better participation when it does
not conflict with the beginning of summer activities.
IF you and the BOD believe the contest should be moved to a different date,
you should consider the previous suggestion to swap the Sprint and HF
contest weekends. That would move BARTG HF even further into the
"hibernation" dates in the northern hemisphere.
While you are on the topic of reviewing the BARTG contests, I would like to
make another suggestion for consideration. That is the requisite that
stations use a portable designator when operating from a different call
district. For example, using KØRC when I am in MN and KØRC/9 if I operate in
Wisconsin. As you know, there is no longer any correlation of callsigns to
physical locations within the USA. A callsign designator of "6" can be
anywhere, W6AAN in Maryland for example.
I like the idea of extra multipliers for working the different numbers, but
the existing rules adds another issue for digital operators when using LoTW
for confirmations. A portable designator requires an additional LoTW
certificate request and tagging and uploading the BARTG QSOs using this
additional certificate. That's not a major problem for most digital
operators, but I profess it's an unnecessary process when considering the
current FCC callsign system. My proposal is to eliminate the geographic
designator but retain the numerical multipliers.
73 de Bob - KØRC in MN
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Barber GW4SKA" <ska@bartg.org.uk>
To: "Fabi va2up" <va2up@live.ca>; "Don Hill" <aa5au@bellsouth.net>; "rtty
contesting rttycontesting" <rtty@contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 12:20 PM
Subject: Re: [RTTY] ANARTS and BARTG contests .. the future
Biggest problem is the clash with RDXC on CW and Phone. It has got to be a
very popular contest and there were even comments on a contest reflector
saying how stupid it was to run a RTTY contest on the same weekend,
regardless of the fact that we have been on the same dates for 30 years
longer than RDXC!
I do agree with the comments on propagation and there are other things to do
in the long days of June. Any other views or suggestions?
73,
John GW4SKA
----- Original Message -----
From: Fabi va2up
To: Don Hill ; ska@bartg.org.uk ; rtty contesting rttycontesting
Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 3:15 PM
Subject: RE: [RTTY] ANARTS and BARTG contests .. the future
Yes John,
I had the same thought as Don yesterday as I read about the sad news.
Conditions wouldl be even worse up here in june... :-(
Best of luck to Pat hoping things improve.
73,
Fabi va2up
> From: aa5au@bellsouth.net
> To: ska@bartg.org.uk; RTTY@contesting.com
> Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:11:10 +0000
> CC: patleeper@optusnet.com.au
> Subject: Re: [RTTY] ANARTS and BARTG contests .. the future
>
> John, it's quite noble of BARTG to pick up the ANARTS contest for this
year - thank you. We all hate to see it go. Thanks to Pat and everyone at
ANARTS for all the work they did in supporting the contest.
>
> I would be against moving the BARTG HF March contest to June. June
propagation in the northern hemisphere is terrible. In March, HF conditions
are much better. June is one of those outdoor months where people tend to do
more outdoor activities on the weekends. I'm afraid the contest would suffer
from lack of participation in June.
>
> Just a thought.
>
> 73, Don AA5AU
>
>
> -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: "John Barber GW4SKA" <ska@bartg.org.uk>
> >
> Pat Leeper recently informed me that she would be unable to continue
managing
> the ANARTS RTTY contest due to failing health. She has made every effort
to find
> > someone else in VK to take over the contest but with no success.
> >
> BARTG have had close links with ANARTS over the years and we felt that
we should
> help in some way. After discussions between Pat and the BARTG committee
we have
> decided on a course of action which I hope will meet with the approval
of the
> > RTTY contesting community.
> >
> For this year only the contest will be managed by John GW4SKA, the BARTG
contest
> manager, with help towards expenses from ANARTS. The rules are much the
same as
> in previous years but logs must come direct to anarts@bartg.org.uk. You
can find
> the rules at http://www.anarts.com.au/rules2009.htm and they will also
be
> available on the BARTG website shortly. This will save any
disappointment for
> > those of us who have made plans to enter the contest this year.
> >
> > 2009 will be the last running of the ANARTS RTTY contest. From 2010 we
will be
> > moving the BARTG HF RTTY Contest from March to the 2nd weekend in
June. This
> > will give us a bit more time between our Sprint and HF contests and
also avoid
> > the March clash of dates with the very popular Russian DX contest.
> >
> > My thanks go to Pat for her cooperation and hard work in running the
previous
> > contests. The ANARTS test has always been one of my favourites and I
know that
> > Pat did not want to let anyone down at short notice.
> >
> > 73 and see you all in June,
> >
> > John GW4SKA
> > BARTG Contest Manager
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