[RTTY] Re: Contest Happenings??

Peter Laws plaws at plaws.net
Tue Jan 25 14:58:04 EST 2005


On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, JOHN DOBSON wrote:

> does the arrl still require a signal report as in 59 or 599 for a valid 
> contact??  thats the only reason Id see for the inclusion of rst in the 
> report---- of course, I feel that due to speeding qso rate up, 
> contesting and dxing has created this situation...

BARTG Sprint is "Serial number only".  ARRL RU is "RST plus State/Prov" 
for W/VE and "RST + serial" for "DX".  NAQP is "Name and State/Prov".  
ONe of them has UTC and Makrothen has Maidenhead grid.

I'm all for removal of "RST" from the RTTY tests ... How do we contact the 
organizers?


-- 
73,
Peter Laws  
N5UWY/9
ARRL VE
WAC (phone)
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