[RTTY] How about a 160m RTTY High Speed Sprint?

[Tyler Stewart]

It either needs to be shorter...maybe 2 hours, or allow reworks after a
certain period of time or number of contacts (time probably better and keeps
away the "not yet" messages)

I'm against stretching it out over multiple nights.  I have a hard enough
time getting on for one! Hi!

Ty K3MM
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Chudek [mailto:k0rc at citlink.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 4:33 AM
To: rtty at contesting.com
Cc: Tyler Stewart
Subject: Re: [RTTY] How about a 160m RTTY High Speed Sprint?

Ty, you're probably right regarding running out of stations to work if it's 
limited to 160 meters. But I really like the idea of making it an exclusive 
160-meter event. It keeps the participants from wandering off the playing 
field!

Okay then, how about this idea... run it similar to the old Novice Roundup 
days... instead of one 4-hour shot, spread it out... make it four evenings 
of 1-hour shots. Or round it up to a full 5 day week of 1-hour shots? Then 
you could rework stations each evening and score each segment separate. The 
final score would be the sum of all the days. That scenario eliminates any 
special software requirements.

Regarding the west coast... 0200z would start them out at 6:00 PM local 
time... I don't have any experience operating from 6 or 7 land so maybe 
those fellows could chime in.

Here in the Midwest the band starts to open up about 3:30 ~ 4:00 PM. By 6:00

PM local time I have missed over an hour of productive contesting.

Anyone have other ideas?

73 de Bob - K0RC


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tyler Stewart" <k3mm at verizon.net>
To: "'Robert Chudek'" <k0rc at pclink.com>; <rtty at contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 1:01 AM
Subject: RE: [RTTY] How about a 160m RTTY High Speed Sprint? (was RTTY on 
160Meters)


> Do you get to rework stations?  I think you'll run out of stations to work
> pretty quick otherwise...  How about including 40 and 80?  ...or at least
> 80?  0200Z is probably way too early for the left coast on 160?
>
> Ty K3MM
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rtty-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:rtty-bounces at contesting.com] On
> Behalf Of Robert Chudek
> Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 7:11 PM
> To: rtty at contesting.com
> Subject: [RTTY] How about a 160m RTTY High Speed Sprint? (was RTTY on
> 160Meters)
>
> This thread reminds me about...
>
> Around 1998 and 1999 I sponsored a short 4-hour RTTY contest call the High
> Speed Sprint. I chose to use the rules and scoring from the BARTG contest 
> so
> no software changes would be needed. The single difference was only RTTY 
> at
> 75 baud (100 wpm) would count for QSO's. This sprint ran for two or three
> years. It took place on the second weekend in March, if I remember 
> correct.
>
> Maybe we should combine ideas and cook up a 4-hour 160m High Speed RTTY
> Sprint? Anyone game to give this a shot? And 1807.5 kHz sounds like a good
> calling frequency to me.  :-)
>
> How would 0200z ~ 0600z work, On an evening instead of a weekend? There
> would be coast to coast propagation at that time. If we got enough 
> interest
> stirred up, one goal would be 160m RTTY WAS. Who's interested in giving 
> this
> a shot?
>
> 73 de Bob - K0RC
>
> P.S. The old HSS was an interesting learning experience for many of the
> fellows because they needed to adjust their TNC's for 100 wpm operation.
> Also, a bug was revealed in the WF1B software at the higher speed. Ray had
> to fix something, I don't remember the particulars. But it was really fun 
> to
> watch the canned exchanges fly across the screen at 100 wpm! There was 
> also
> a lot of discussion on the reflector whether 60 wpm or 100 wpm was 
> more/less
> error prone, filter widths, and on and on... There's enough new fellows on
> digital that this could be a hoot!
>
> I'm gonna check my old computer to see if I can find the details about 
> this
> old HSS event. Hmmm.. come to think about it, I think I'm using that old
> computer as a wheel chock for the boat trailer...
>
>
>
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> Message: 8
> Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 12:51:44 -0800
> From: Bill Turner <dezrat at copper.net>
> Subject: Re: [RTTY] RTTY on 160 Meters
> To: <ke4qok at bellsouth.net>, "Thomas Giella KN4LF"
> <flcyclone at tampabay.rr.com>, "a RTTY COL eList" <rtty at contesting.com>
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> At 11:19 AM 2/27/2006, ke4qok at bellsouth.net wrote:
>>It may not be as hard as you think to maintain a good QSO count on
>>160M.  There are probably a lot of people out there that have few if
>>any RTTY contacts on this band and would like to get some in the log
>>and the QSL album.
>>
>>Bob
>>KE4QOK
>
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> Especially if someone spots you. :-)
>
> 73, Bill W6WRT