[RTTY] ZL2BR Makrothen Contest

[Frank Hunt]

Tough conditions for me, average received signal was around S3-4 
After first couple of hours, it looked as if 250-300 qso's would be 
possible, how wrong I was, but, I am very happy with my efforts as 
you can see below.

Summary:
band	qso's	points
40		17		212,844
20		91		1,457,951
15		46		558,591

Claimed Score:	2,229,386
Average Distance per contact was 14,476

Gear: TS-2000 (100w), 3-el tribander, 40m GP

While number of active stations may have been low, for a brand 
contest contest it was excellent. Worked more JA's than any other 
country, followed by UA, W/VE then OH.

What do I think of the scoring system?  Just one word - Fantastic !

Although it would seem to favour stations such as mine in remote 
parts of the world, I can assure everyone I had to work extremely 
hard to get 154 contacts.  20-21 hours operating equals around 7.5 
contacts an hour, for some hour periods I only got 2 contacts.

Yes, maybe the dates could be changed to avoid the ARRL SSB 
and the Ukrainian sprint type RTTY contests, but would not like to 
see the points system changed. As it is now, it's simple and very 
fair to everyone. Band/Point multipliers for 80/40m would return the 
"location advantage" (as it is in the vast majority of contests), to 
Europe and probably W/VE.

A great date for this contest would be 1st weekend in July, yes I 
know that's the date of new, last year, DL RTTY contest, which has 
very boring rules similar to a lot of other RTTY contests. Maybe all 
the the DL RTTY contesters could get together and consider 
making the DL contest the DL Makrothen contest, with the 
Makrothen points rules of course  :-)

Thanks everyone for the contacts and a big big thanks to 
Waldemar for all the work and effort in organsing this contest - long 
may it reign !

73,
Frank ZL2BR