[RTTY] TARA RTTY SPRINT ..FINAL RESULTS

[MRBILL1953@aol.com]

Greetings:

I bet a good few of you never thought you'd be seeing the results from the 
TARA RTTY SPRINT this soon but this year is different! If you go to our 
website you'll find that the results for 2002 have now been posted. Please 
reveiew them at:
<A HREF="http://www.n2ty.org/rtty/scores_final.htm">http://www.n2ty.org/rtty/scores_final.htm</A>

1st KX7LDS  285 78  22230       MOABHP  
2nd RW9C          220   68  14960       MOABHP  
3rd LU3HY         120   50  6000        MOABHP
    
1st K4WW          200   69  13800       MOABLP  
2nd YU7AL        66 34  2210        MOABLP
    
1st PJ2EL         384   79  30336       SOABHP  
2nd K4GMH   311 83  25813       SOABHP  
3rd 9A5W          286   77  22022       SOABHP  

1st AA5AU         383   78  29874       SOABLP  
2nd WX4TM   291 74  21534       SOABLP  
3rd W4UEF         199   72  14328       SOABLP  

1st M3OKU          14   10  140           NOV/TEC   


There are a LOT of things that we're extremely grateful for this year. 
However, the main thing is YOUR PARTICIPATION! For a club of our size to 
generate this much excitement and on-the-air activity each year we need each 
of you. Without the support this contest has received since 1991 we would 
have never made it this far. That my friends is the plain & simple truth! 
Also, we had a fair number of new folks in this year's contest, something we 
can never get enough of.  TARA tried out its "NEW & IMPROVED" On-line Score 
Submission this year and it worked flawlessly! But, the main reason it was 
successful was again because all of you took the time to use the system. 

We have a few improvements that we'd like too try in the coming year and we
'll keep you informed over the next couple of months of any developments. 
TARA greatly appreciates all of your suggestions on how to improve things, so 
please keep them coming our way. We've always maintained that this IS NOT 
TARA's contest, it belongs to every RTTY contester that actively participates 
each year! 

Please review the results and if there are any additions/corrections that 
need to be made--please contact us immediately. I will wake until Friday 
1/10/2003 before we begin printing the certificates, that should give 
sufficient time to make any corrections. For those that participated on one 
of the "Multi-Op" entries we have an offer for you. If you'll send me the 
FULL NAMES & CALL SIGN  of those that operated under that Multi-Op entry 
we'll make sure that everyone gets a certificate! 

There are a few folks I'd like to thank personally. First, we have Don Hill, 
AA5AU, who each year tries his personal best to help/assist contesters from 
around the world. In addition I believe Don has held 1st Place SOABLP title 
for 7 years straight, certainly not an easy thing to do. If you're looking 
for info on RTTY Don has one of the PREMIER website that a RTTY contester 
should check out. If you've never been there, here is the link: <A HREF="http://www.aa5au.com/rtty">
http://www.aa5au.com/rtty</A>

Next, we have Shelby Summerville, K4WW, to acknowledge for his years of 
contributions to TARA. You see over the year's TARA has been most fortunate 
to have friends such as K4WW & AA5AU. Every time we've needed some additional 
guidence and input these guys have been right there to answer the call. 
Shelby's a fantastic contester and he's another person that is more than 
willing to assist anyone that has questions. Also, he's very active on the 
bands besides just RTTY. Get this, Shelby has  5BWAS, 5BDXCC, DXCC RTTY, WAZ 
and WAC, pretty impressive!

TARA's RTTY Team consists of Karen Smith, KB2UUC; Joe Pasquini, N2NOU and Ed 
Eades, KC2HNC, who heads up HF Digital Contesting on behalf of TARA. These 3 
members are responsible for such things as tracking all of the scores that 
are submitted, generating certificates, contest mailings,  website 
updates...etc etc. Over the last couple of years the improvement you've seen 
are the results of these fine folks. As president of TARA I can only tell you 
that these indivuals are great leaders and they make the RTTY contest what it 
is today.

OK....that's it! We have another year behind us and now it's time to look 
forward to the upcoming 12th - TARA RTTY SPRINT, coming this December 6 & 7, 
2003!
    
If you'd like to review the results of this year's sprint or year's past you 
should check out the following link. <A HREF="http://www.n2ty.org/rtty/">http://www.n2ty.org/rtty/</A>
 
    
Happy Contesting!
Bill Eddy - NY2U
President of TARA



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