[RTTY] 160

[Inbody, Donald S]

It appears to me that we are trying to two things here (well, at least two things):

1.  Encourage more RTTY interest on 160M
2.  Push someone to the first RTTY 160M WAS
3.  Create more opportunities for RTTY 160M DXCC

So, a contest should reward such activity.  Therefore, how about the following:

1.  Report - Callsign, name, grid, State (I guess we could include county, too, if there is enough interest.  That is (more than) enough data to ensure we had a real QSO on a tough band.

2.  Scoring - 1 point per QSO in same DXCC entity, 2 points per QSO in same continent, 3 points per QSO in another continent.  This surely needs some of our brighter minds to toss around.

2.  Operate for 24 hours, no limits on time spent on the air.  This gives everyone around the world at least one night time period.  

3.  No limits on power, but have at least two categories, HP (>200W) and LP (< 200W).

4.  Given the probable paucity of participants, we might want to consider permitting re-working contacts after some period of time has passed.  This needs some thought by our "great thinkers."  Remember, we are trying to encourage RTTY action on 160M.

Thoughts?

73, Don ADØK


-----Original Message-----
From: rtty-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:rtty-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Brian Kassel
Sent: Monday, February 19, 2007 11:19
To: rtty at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [RTTY] 160

Folks:
Whatever format is chosen *PLEASE* let us drop the mandatory 599 "signal 
Report".   I really like the Grid square idea too.  It gives you the 
most information about the other station's location with the least 
amount of data.

Brian K7RE

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