Two great chances to get your station in RTTY-shape before the RTTY Roundup in January - and once chance to add to your 2016-2017 competition totals!
This weekend Oct 7th-9th is the Makrothen contest:
For some of you, this is the distance based DX contest you've always wanted, at least in RTTY form. Highlights include:
- exchange is your 4 character grid square (e.g. CM98)
- your points are kilometers between you and the other station
- 24 hours split into three 8 hours shifts, with 8 hours between shifts
- contest starts Friday at 5pm local, ends Sunday at 9am, and you still have your Saturday night!
- assistance allowed
- plenty of activity!
An interesting twist for those of you inclined to operate SO2R or SO3R is that you are required to enter as a Single/Multi station, which means you can transmit on each band without regard to the other bands, just like any other multi. Try it, it's fun!
The following weekend Oct 14th-16th is the JARTS (Japan) RTTY contest. This contest counts towards your score in the NCCC individual and team competition. Highlights:
- 48 hours, work all 48 if you can
- exchange is 599 and your age (this is the scary part)
- mults count per band and are DXCC entity and JA/W/VE/VK call areas
- assistance allowed
- plenty of activity!
Note that there is a link here to the JA bandplans. These are good to know!
Hope to see your print the next two weekends - have fun! - jeff wk6i
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