[RTTY] Contesting For ALL Seasons..

[MRBILL1953 at aol.com]

Greetings To All:

Have we ever got a few announcements here for all of you. Over the last few 
weeks TARA has been working extremely hard to put together a contesting 
schedule that I hope all of you find to be as exciting as myself. We've developed a 
contesting schedule for 'ALL' seasons and we now bring all of our contests 
together under TARA's "Four Seasons Contesting" banner. But, we have much more for 
you...keep reading!

As I mentioned TARA has brought all of it's contests together and we now call 
them part of our "Four Seasons Contesting." TARA will now sponsor the 
following contests: 


"The DPX" - Digital Prefix Contest (Spring)
"The Grid Dip-Shindig" Digital psk-rtty Grid Square Contest  (Summer)
"The PSK Rumble" - The World's 1st PSK Contest!  (Fall)
TARA RTTY Melee - With changes for the 21st Century. (Winter) 

Each of these contests will run yearly. We have decided to drop the Spring 
Rumble - "The Spring Wake-up" in order to keep with our Four Seasons concept. 
Our goal was to bring you the very best of Digital Contests for 'ALL' seasons 
and I believe we've done it! But, that's still not everything! Nope, you got to 
keep reading. 

Each year TARA is going to crown the "Digital King or Queen" in our "NEW" 
Tor'ney! We believe a lot of you work hard at these contests and it's time that 
we recognize just who is going to regarded as a World Leader of our digital 
modes! We believe we have a well rounded program and the challenge will be 
difficult but after all we're talking about a "World Champion" don't forget. I hope 
we've got your attention now? If so, please keep reading.

TARA has been looking for volunteers to pick up some of the new management 
positions we have with our new programs and we are proud to announce the 
following managers. Please give them a warm welcome and show them your support. 

Ed Eades, KC2HNC - PSK Rumble Manager 
Chris Durbin, N8PSK - DPX Contest Manager
Karen Smith, KB2UUC - Press/Media Manager 

Below is the Official Announcement for the upcoming "Grid Dip" - Shindig!

July 26
The Grid Dip psk-rtty Shindig - Grid Square contest. Sponsored by Troy ARA, 
0000z through 2400z, July 26th, PSK 31, PSK63 and RTTY. 80,40,20,15,10,6 
meters. Work stations once per band unless Rover has changed Locator.  Exchange 
name, 4 digit grid locator.  Enter 1 of 5 categories. QRP, 5w max (RTTY use 5w 
max); Low, 20w max (RTTY use 100w max),  High, 100w max (RTTY use Legal Limit); 
Rover,  50w max (RTTY use Legal Limit) as a portable or mobile station 
operating from more than one Grid Locator, or SWL. Single/single only. Call CQ Grid 
Dip. Final score is QSO points * total different Grid Locators. Mults. count 
once per band.  To be valid, scores must be received via our online score 
submission form found at http://www.n2ty.org/seasons/tara_grid_score.html or e-mail 
Logs to grid-manager at n2ty.org, by the last entry date 23rd August 2003.  Logs 
must be available for review if requested.  Please read web rules for details 
on http://www.n2ty.org/seasons/tara_grid_rules.html for more info e-mail:  
wm2u at n2ty.org  - Ernie Mills, WM2U  or ny2u at n2ty.org - Bill Eddy, NY2U.