[RTTY] W3AO Field Day announcement

[Tyler Stewart]

This weekend is ARRL Field Day for IARU Region 2 stations, but all are 
invited and encouraged to participate.

N3OC and I will be spearheading the digital operation from W3AO in Maryland, 
a joint effort betweeen Columbia Amateur Radio Assn and Potomac Valley Radio 
Club.  We are making a special effort on digital this year to see what is 
possible.

We want to encourage ALL digital stations from around the world to join in 
and show the strength of the digital modes of RTTY and PSK.  We will be very 
aggressive about passing between bands and ask that everyone try to move 
with us from band to band as much as possible.  We especially encourage 
operators to try bands other than 20 meters!

I will also be making a special effort to work DX on Sunday, with a small 
beam pointed towards Europe if all goes according to plan.

Complete rules on FD are at 
http://www.arrl.org/contests/forms/05-fd-Rules.pdf .

Briefly, it starts at 1800Z this Saturday and ends for most at 1800Z Sunday, 
although some may be on until 2100Z.

Exchange is:  <number of simultaneous transmitters><Class> <ARRL/RAC Section 
or "DX">

For example, a commercially powered home station in Europe, the exchange 
would be "1D DX"

Use "E" for generator power from a home station.  True mobiles use "C" as 
their class.

Note that class D stations may not work other class D stations for this 
event.

You may work each station once per band on 3 modes: SSB, CW, Digital.

Hope to CU this weekend!

Ty K3MM
@W3AO FD