Do you think the difference is that it is the AMERICAN Radio Relay League RTTY
Roundup vs CQ's Worldwide contests? The perception by DX stations being that it
is a US contest, rather than a WW contest?
Stan, K4SBZ
"Real radio bounces off the sky."
> On Jan 7, 2014, at 2:19 PM, K1FWE <k1fwe@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> Stan:
>
> IMHO, Its not just this last session. Like Don, I've noticed it every time I
> get into the RU, which I admit has not been that often in recent years. Its a
> major RTTY contest but DX participation from my perspective is down for RU
> when compared to others like CQWW RTTY contests where there's lots of DX. One
> could simply prove or disprove this theory by comparing the numbers of DX
> entries across the major RTTY contests.
>
> 73,
> John
> NN1SS
>
> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Stanley Zawrotny <k4sbz.stan@gmail.com>
>> Sent: Jan 7, 2014 9:26 AM
>> To: John Webster <k1fwe@earthlink.net>
>> Cc: "<rtty@contesting.com>" <rtty@contesting.com>
>> Subject: Re: [RTTY] Roundup observations - a bit long!
>>
>> The lack of DX can be explained by the propagation reports for Saturday and
>> Sunday. They were exceptionally poor.
>>
>> Stan, K4SBZ
>>
>> "Real radio bounces off the sky."
>>
>>> On Jan 6, 2014, at 7:02 PM, "John Webster" <k1fwe@earthlink.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> "The overall appearance of a lack of DX in the Roundup still amazes me. If
>>> this had been WPX or CQWW, 10 and 15 meters would have
>>> been wall-to-wall Europe starting here at 1300Z and probably going well
>>> past 2000Z with the high flux we had. That doesn't happen in
>>> Roundup. Or least that doesn't happen here during Roundup."Don - I agree.
>>> Personally, I think the rules/awards don't give DX much incentive to get
>>> into this one nor do they give US stations muchincentive to work DX,
>>> particularly on 80 and 10. I usually can't do much in this contest due to
>>> its proximity to the holidays, but that's just me. This year was no
>>> exception.JohnNN1SS (ex K1FWE)
>
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