[RTTY] FW: BARTG Major Changes

[Neal Campbell]

This has to be one of the worst lightning strike years on record! I bet I
got 5 calls from different customers last week with the same situation.

Stay safe out there...
73
Neal  K3NC


On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 8:35 AM, Gary E. Jones <garyejones at cmaaccess.com>wrote:

> A week ago, a lightning strike fried my DXP-38 RTTY box. I would like to
> get
> a new one... perfect shape and condition. If anyone has one out there that
> is in excellent shape, please contact me back channel
> (garyejones at cmaaccess.com). I assume I am going to need another unit but I
> am going to talk to HAL today and see what they say. In case it is better
> to
> start over, if you have one that you would be willing to part with, I am
> probably interested....
>
>
>      73
>
>                Gary     W5FI
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rtty-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:rtty-bounces at contesting.com] On
> Behalf Of Roger Cooke
> Sent: Monday, August 16, 2010 6:15 AM
> To: rtty at contesting.com
> Subject: [RTTY] BARTG Major Changes
>
>
>
> *Changes at BARTG 2010*
>
> * *
>
> BARTG recently made some fundamental changes to the way it operates,
> which we hope will bring some exciting changes to the RTTY
> contesting world.
>
> 1) The post of BARTG Contest Manager has been replaced with a
> Contests/DX/Software Sub-group, consisting of Phil, GU0SUP and Ian,
> GM4KLN, assisted by John, GW4SKA and Arf, G1XKZ. Thanks are due to
> John, our BARTG President, for 20 years plus of excellent service to
> the contesting world, and for initiating many of the rules, concepts
> and so on that other contests have now also adopted. John's vast
> knowledge and experience is still available to us as he is remaining
> within the Sub-group, but his work-load will be reduced
>
> 2) The same applies to the post of Awards Manager. This has been
> replaced with an Awards/QSLs Sub-group, consisting of Phil, GU0SUP
> and Andrew, M5AEX, assisted by Arf, G1XKZ. Phil has also given years
> of service to the Awards scheme, but now being assisted by Andrew
> and Arf, we hope to have some new designs and a more exciting range
> in the near future
>
> 3) The rules of the existing BARTG HF and BARTG Sprint will be
> re-written to remove current ambiguities, clarify and update
>
> 4) An additional contest - the Sprint75, has been introduced after
> its successful pilot this year
>
> 5) Additional sections will be added to our contests: low/hi power;
> single band; 6 hours operating
>
> 6) New software is being developed that will allow quicker, easier
> log submission, accommodating a wider range of log formats
> consistent with the revised rules. Final adjudication will still be
> done by a human being!
>
> Please bear with us while we implement these major changes, and feel
> free to join us at http://www.bartg.org.uk : donations always welcome!
>
> Please note: we are also in the process of updating our highly
> successful awards: why not check those out too. We hope soon to be
> able to automatically notify contesters whether they qualify for any
> of our awards shortly after each of our contests.
>
> *Email changes*
>
> ian@ secretary@ G4EAN@ all for Ian G4EAN
>
> ska@ for John GW4SKA
>
> bartg@ which is the catchall and goes to Ian, GM4kLN, our web master
> (and should continue to do so please)
>
> awards@ is redirected to all members of the awards sub-group
>
> contests@ is redirected to all members of the contests sub-group
>
> logs@ is obviously the proposed new recipient of incoming log
> submissions, but where and how and so on, yet to be determined.
>
> *BARTG Sprint 75*
>
> Following the success of the first 75 Baud Sprint and many requests
> for a second, BARTG is running another this year.
>
> The second Sprint 75 is being held as follows:
>
> 18th Sept 17:00 - 21:00z
>
> 80, 40, 20, 15, 10 metres
>
> RTTY 75 Baud only
>
> rules / scoring as per Sprint rules that can be found on the BARTG
> Web site:
>
> http://bartg.co.uk/
>
> *GB50ATG
>
> *
>
> GB50ATG made nearly 8000 QSOs during the BARTG Golden Jubilee Year
> which ended on June 30^th . Special QSLs and awards are available.
> Check the web site for full details.
>
> ---------------------------------------------
>
>
> *73 de Roger, G3LDI, BARTG Chairman
> *
>
> * *
>
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