[RTTY] RTTY Sweeps

[FireBrick]

I understand that Sweeps is a 24 hour contest.
But it still chews up the weekend. Realistically, another major contest can not coexist in 
the same 'basic' timeframe as sweeps.

I really don't see the advantage. There are already low power, antenna challenged rtty ops 
in the contests...
I rather see contests open to all ops, all countries.
You can have certificates for all the various levels.

The problem with a rtty sweeps is....one bit takes a hit (rhyming not intended) and the 
exchange is corrupted and it might go unnoticed.
So there could be a lot of penalties, especially for low power, antenna challenged.
Sure would hate to see a newbie get dinged because he entered what he printed, never 
knowing it was wrong.

I'd rather see a radically different contest, with different strategies than just another 
same old, same old. The contests which have become fun are the ones with different 
exchanges, like using age, or first licensed. WAE comes to mind. That one is challenging 
and never boring. Makrothen for another.

But, saying all that. If a rtty sweeps does come to pass, I'll play, even though I'd think 
we could have been more inventive.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rick Mintz" <Rmintz at Rochester.rr.com>
To: <rtty at contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 11:17 AM
Subject: [RTTY] RTTY Sweeps


> 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
>> To: "RTTY List" <rtty at contesting.com>
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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. :-(((
>
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