[RTTY] Makrothen RTTY Contest

[Bill Turner]

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On Fri, 29 Sep 2006 09:44:22 -0400, "JT Croteau" <jt.w6fo at gmail.com>
 wrote:

>How popular is the up coming Makrothen Contest?  I will be
>participating for as much of the contest as I can fit into my
>schedule.  I am still new to RTTY so I'm entering all the contests I
>can for practice.

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Participation has been surprisingly strong right from the beginning. I
like it because it is a true distance contest, meaning your score is
based only on the distance between you and the station you contact as
measure by grid square separation. There are NO multipliers. 

Also, it is one of the few contests which have separate SO1R and SO2R
categories, although they don't call them that. The only other one I
can think of offhand is the Mexico RTTY contest.

Details at:

http://home.arcor.de/waldemar.kebsch/The_Makrothen_Contest/The_Makrothen_Contest.html

73, Bill W6WRT