[RTTY] 160

[Brian Kassel]

Folks:

  Please let us not get any more elaborate with scoring and exchanges 
than  any current popular contest.  Remember we want to be able to use a 
current contest model or template so that additional programming will 
not be required by the authors of existing contest logging programs.  I 
just hate to do manual scoring.  ;) Also if the contest sponsors want to 
make this easy on themselves, they will probably want the logs submitted 
in Cabrillo form, which is always contest-specific.  Any  format that 
deviates from an existing contest will require a re-work of the Cabrillo 
format.  

  Being located in the western portion of the midwest US, I can tell you 
that if the contest is scored to allow a level playing field, more 
participants can be expected.  It is  extremely difficult to break the 
east coast- EU wall on many bands, and 160M is probably the toughest of 
all in this respect. 

Brian K7RE