[RTTY] No RTTY Contests in June - Replacement for ANARTSContest?

[John Barber GW4SKA]

Just to make things clear from the BARTG point of view, we have no hold on 
the ANARTS contest or any date. Nobody 'owns' a date, nobody can give or 
refuse 'consent' to use a date for any purpose!

We only got involved at short notice to make sure the ANARTS contest ran in 
2009 and made it clear that we had no intention to run any 'ANARTS' contest 
in the future.

There was some interest in a high speed RTTY contest;  it seemed sensible to 
try it for the first time on what was a clear weekend for RTTY contests, 
hence the June 12th date. I think it would be better for any other new 
contest to use a different weekend, but that decision is up to the 
organisers. My personal view is that there are already too many contests for 
normal RTTY and maybe the 75 baud contest is a bit different.

73,

John GW4SKA
BARTG Contest Manager


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <dj3iw at web.de>
To: <RTTY at contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, April 09, 2010 4:46 PM
Subject: Re: [RTTY] No RTTY Contests in June - Replacement for 
ANARTSContest?


> Hello,
>
> certainly at least some RTTY contesters will miss the ANARTS
> contest. That's true for Bernd DC3HB and myself Goetz DJ3IW.
> We already thought about continuing the ANARTS contest but
> with a different name and some minor changes. Pat Leeper
> from ANARTS saw no problem with that but voiced that ANARTS
> had given up "their" June contest date to BARTG.
> So far we could not get BARTGs consent for the June date and
> we are still looking for a suitable one.
>
> These are our ideas.
> Changes:
> - No more extra points for QSOs with VK stations,
> - 24 hour duration,
> - new 6 hour category for single operators.
> The ANARTS zone-point table and multiplier rules will be used.
>
> We see two possibilities,
> 1) second weekend of June (the traditional ANARTS date),
>    12/13 June in 2010, using the well known SARTG format
>    of three eight hour periods
>    Saturday 0800Z to 1559Z
>    Sunday    0000Z to 0759Z
>    Sunday    1600Z to 2359Z.
>    We feel that BARTG consent is necessary for this date,
>    although it would not conflict with the new BARTG
>    75 Baud Sprint.
> 2) Third weekend in September, 18/19 Sept in 2010, with
>     two 12 hour periods
>     Saturday 0000Z to 1159Z
>     Sunday   1200Z to 2359Z.
>     This scheme avoids existing major non RTTY contests.
>
> Bern DC3HB (who is the DL-DX-RTTY-Contest manager) has
> already written the necessary software for logchecking,
> evaluation and a log robot.
>
> For Bernd DC3HB and Goetz DJ3IW
> 73 de Goetz DJ3IW
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