[RTTY] No RTTY Contests in June - Replacement for ANARTS Contest?

[Frank Hunt]

I will certainly miss the ANARTS contest, as the scoring format 
certainly helped to 'level the playing field' for those of us 
disadvantaged (or lucky enough!) to live far away from the main 
population centres of the world.   

>From my prospective the second weekend in June is preferred 
as the third weekend in September clashes with the SAC CW 
contest. The SARTG 3x8 hour format looks good to me.

As the contact points are directly proportional to the distances 
between zones, would like to suggest that multipliers be Zones only 
and not DXCC entities and maybe the contest name could be the  
"Interzone RTTY Contest".

73, Frank ZL2BR/ZM2B

On 9 Apr 2010 at 17:46, dj3iw at web.de wrote:

> 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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