As one who is just on the threshold of jumping into RTTY and RTTY
contesting in general, I was looking forward to a short contest to see just
how well I might be able to get things to work. Hearing that the Sprints
may be cancelled or otherwise discontinued does not exactly sound like
"Good News"
Just one man's opinion. Your mileage may vary.
Sid N0OBM
At 07:11 01/09/2003 -0500, you wrote:
> 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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Sid Ashen-Brenner Salina, Kansas N0OBM EM18et
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