[RTTY] ARRL RTTY Round-Up Rules - QUESTIONs about band changes, etc.

[Richard Ferch]

Re band changes and categories, I read the rules the same way Dave does, 
and draw a couple of other conclusions (these are *not* complaints, just 
observations):

If you are a single-op and use packet, you become subject to the 6 
band-change restriction, which puts significant limits on the usefulness of 
packet for SO1R and makes it completely unusable for SO2R.

Also, there is a 24 out of 30 hour time restriction even on multi-singles. 
There is no possibility of a multiplier station to keep the second operator 
busy.

It appears that the rules in this contest are so heavily weighted to 
single-op unassisted that it's unattractive to anyone in other categories. 
This may to be related to the observation that with only one exception I 
could find (1995), the winning multi-one scores are *lower* than the 
winning single-op scores.

73,
Rich VE3IAY


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