This contest gives little motivation to fight to work, say a JA on 40, when it
counts no
more than working one of many loud stations from Texas. Generally you work
mults
where they are easiest, and go for rate everywhere. Still it's a lot better
than sweepstakes
where you only get to work a station once. At least RU never gets as slow as
sweeps
on Sunday.
Mark. N2QT
> On Jan 7, 2014, at 8:15 PM, "John Webster" <k1fwe@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> If for example DXCC countries were to count as multipliers on each band
> instead of once only regardless of band, there would be more incentive for US
> stations to look for DX stations on all bands, thereby increasing activity on
> all bands that would attract DX stations. As another example, if contacts
> between continents were awarded two points instead of one, there would also
> be more incentive for US to work DX and for DX to become more active. These
> ideas are not new. You can see them at work in other RTTY and DX contests. RU
> is a bit of an anomaly in this regard I think in that the scoring structure
> is more like Sweep Stakes than a DX contest and yet DX is invited to
> participate in RU but not in SS.
>
> John
> NN1SS
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Al Kozakiewicz" <akozak@hourglass.com>
> To: "Stanley Zawrotny" <k4sbz.stan@gmail.com>; "K1FWE" <k1fwe@earthlink.net>
> Cc: <rtty@contesting.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2014 5:41 PM
> Subject: RE: [RTTY] Roundup observations - a bit long!
>
>
> That's my theory. When like 63 multipliers are from CONUS and Canada, it's
> clear that the ARRL takes the 'A' in 'ARRL' seriously.
>
> Al
> AB2ZY
> ________________________________________
> From: RTTY [rtty-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Stanley Zawrotny
> [k4sbz.stan@gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2014 5:22 PM
> To: K1FWE
> Cc: <rtty@contesting.com>
> Subject: Re: [RTTY] Roundup observations - a bit long!
>
> 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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