[RTTY] 3rd Annual CCCC Contest: 23Hz RTTY

[Andrew J. O'Brien]

Reminder


Announcing the 3rd  Annual CCCC  Contest:

Sponsored by the Chautauqua County Contest Club and the Digitalradio
Reflector

DATE: 0000 UTC September 1,  2001 to 2359.59 UTC September 1, 2001 (24
hours)

****IMPORTANT NOTE! ******    This contest has changed modes,  previous
contests were PSK31. The CCCC PSK contest was among the first contests to
support PSK31 when it was a relatively new mode.  Since PSK31  is now  a
dominant mode, the CCCC will return to its tradition of pioneering new modes
for contest operation.  This years contest will be a narrow RTTY mode
referred to as MTTY or 23 Hz RTTY.  QSO's must be made using this mode,  the
wider traditional RTTY is NOT supported in this contest.   MTTY/23Hz RTTY
software is freely available to all radio amateurs, including MMTTY.
MixW., ZAKANAKA , RCKRTTY, HAMSCOPE and more .  Check
www.digitalham.net for links,  or see your favourite digital radio web page.

Objectives:  Have fun and work as many MTTY/23Hz RTTY  contacts from around
the world  as you can!

Bands: 80, 40, 20, 15, and 10 m.(use appropriate band plan)


Classes:

A: Single Operator / All Band

B: Single Operator / Single Band

C:  SWL / All Band

NOTE 1:

Single operator all band may also enter as a single band entry of their
choice too.

NOTE 2:

DX spotting and alerting assistance is permitted in all classes.

Modes:  MTTY 23 Hz RTTY ONLY!  This mode supported by MMTTY, Zakanaka, MixW
Hamscope, and  rckrtty software packages, .  For software links check
www.digitalham.net

EXCHANGES:  RST + QSO number, starting with 001.

QSO Points:   QSO with own country, 5 points. QSO with other countries in
own continent 10 points.
QSO with other continents 15 points.

Same station can be worked once on each band.

In VK, VE, JA and W, each call area will count as separate country. Stations
operating from call areas other than their call ID, are asked to use '/x'
for their actual call area, i.e. K5DJ/1.


Multipliers:

Each DXCC country on each band, including first contact with Australia,
Canada, Japan and USA. Additionally, each call area in VK, VE, JA and W will
count as one (1) multiplier on each band.

Software Support for Scoring:  Contest scoring supported by MixW software ,
RCKRtty  software, and Writelog  The contest uses SARTG WW RTTY Contest
scoring format which may be supported by other contest software .


Scoring:  Sum of QSO points x sum of multipliers = TOTAL SCORE.

Awards:  E-certificates awarded  to the top stations in each class, country
and
district, if the number of QSOs is reasonable.

Logs: Logs must be submitted in ASCII format Use separate log sheets for
each band  .  Log must show: BAND, DATE/TIME (UTC), CALLSIGN, EXCHANGE
MESSAGE SENT and
RECEIVED, MULTIPLIERS, and QSO points. Summary sheet must show scoring,
class, your callsign, name and address .
Cabrillo log is accepted..

Please advise of any club participation, your score will be added to the
aggregated score of your club.

Logs Deadline:  Logs must be received by October 30 , 2001 to qualify.

Mail logs to:  E-mail: logs to  obrienaj@netsync.net  or via regular mail to
:
CCCC Contest , Andrew O'Brien  KB2EOQ, 9082 Concord Drive
Fredonia, NY 14063 . USA  (NO GREEN STAMPS!!!)

Results published :  Claimed Scores Page :
http://www.netsync.net/users/obrienaj/cccc3.htm

Homepage:  http://www.netsync.net/users/obrienaj/carc.htm

Thanks to Scandinavian Amateur Radio Teleprinter Group for contest  format