[CQ-Contest] RTTY Roundup is coming up soon!

[Aldewey at aol.com]

Pierre;
 
You are not the first one to be confused by the wording this rule.   When I 
was on the ARRL CAC, we looked at this rule in detail and made some  
recommendations to the league on re-wording (not changing) this rule.
 
Because the RTTY RU in a World Wide contest, the intent of the rule was  
that stations around the world would not cherry pick their off time in 30 
minute  chunks to take advantage of propagation.  The rule has served the 
contest  well even though it is a little confusing to understand.
 
Our recommendations at the time was to reword the rule as follows:
 
"2.2  Operating time will be calculated using the elapsed time between  the 
first QSO and the last QSO logged minus the longest two breaks during this  
elapsed time where such breaks are a minimum of 30 minutes each."
 
So, in your example, you WOULD be able to rejoin the contest later as  you 
suggest.  It's just that any breaks you take that are shorter than  your 
LONGEST two breaks will count as Operating Time.  As long as your  total 
Operating Time is 24 hours or less, you are fine.
 
I hope this clarifies things for you.  See you in the Round Up.
 
73,
 
AL, K0AD
 
 
 
 
In a message dated 12/29/2016 2:38:55 P.M. Central Standard Time,  
pierre.fogal at gmail.com writes:

Hi  Jeff,

I'm looking at participating in the RTTY Roundup for the first  time.

I'm a bit perplexed by rule 2.2.  Does this mean that once I  have stopped
operating twice that I'm done for the contest if I stop  again?

Say for example that I start the contest, and operate for 4  hours, and then
go off and make dinner for the family.  I might then  be free to come back
after 2 hours and  continue operating.  I  then operate for another 6 hours
or so and then head to bed, getting up 6  hours later and then rejoin.  I've
now had two blocks of off  time.  If I were then to stop after some amount
of operating time,  would I be able to rejoin the contest or am I done?

What happens if I  start the contest some hours late?  Is that considered
one of the off  periods?

And, what would be the minimum time between contacts to count  as off-time?

As I said ... I ain't done this one before  ...

Thanks, 73

Pierre VE3KTB


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>> Please  share this post with your local contest club.
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>> The  RTTY Roundup is a week and a half away, on January 7-8, 2017.
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>  Everything you need to know is right here:
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>>  http://www.arrl.org/rtty-roundup
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>> I write the RTTY  Roundup results article for QST. The quality of the
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> article is  only as good as the input I get from you, the enthusiastic
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>  participants. So please do think about writing down your experiences in  
the
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> RU, and send them to me or post them on 3830scores.com or  put them in 
your
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> soapbox with your log. (I'll find  them!)
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>> Also, QST loves good photos, and those are  what get into the magazine. 
So
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> be sure to take some high  quality RTTY operating photos, or photos of you
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> safely doing  station tasks, tower climbing, etc. Photos with people in 
them
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>  are definitely preferred.
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>> Last year we had a great  response to our call for plaque sponsors. Last
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> year's list of  sponsors and recipients can be found at the end of last
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> years  results article here:
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http://www.arrl.org/files/file/ContestResults/2016/2016%20RTTY%20Roundup%20-%20Full%20Results%20-%20Version%201_32a.pdf
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>>  If you would like to sponsor this year - note that any Division plaque  
is
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> fair game, or maybe even make up your own category - please  contact Bart
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> W9JJ at w9jj at arrl.org for  details.
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>> Have fun in the Roundup! 73 jeff  wk6i
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