[RTTY] RTTY Sweeps

[Rick Mintz]

Hi Bill,

Not to contest (good choice of words) your opinion but as a 
clarification....

(1) Sweeps is a 24 hour contest
(2) The are many US only contests now, so it is not unique to exclude DX
(3) RTTY Roundup as inferred by others is a US contest. It is a DX contest 
but has state multipliers as in CQWW RTTY
(4) A Sweepstakes RTTY is to activate low power, antenna challenged stations 
that cannot work DX in contest situations. With smaller stations working 
W/VE only more emphasis would be on skill rather than horsepower.

Rick W1TY

> Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:52:41 -0500
> From: "FireBrick" <w9ol at billnjudy.com>
> Subject: [RTTY] no rtty sweepstakes
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> We already have the RTTY Roundup.
>
> I agree with Waldemar, seems like a whole weekend US only rtty contest 
> seems like it may
> be overkill.
>
>
> The contest that I always thought would be fun...would be a 3 or 5 man 
> team contest.
> 3 or 5 US station team up, work everybody, combine logs and discount 
> dupes.
> Score would be total multipliers X combined totals qsos minus dupes.
> Not sure how the non USA could form teams, maybe 3 or 5 guys in same 
> zone???? or
> continent???
>
> Could be a lot of interesting choice of team members...
> Sure wouldn't like to be the contest committee member checking the logs 
> though. :-(((