[RTTY] BARTG Major Changes

[Mike]

Thanks to John, GW4SKA, for all his effort, time and skill in his years at
the helm of the BARTG Contest.

Best wishes to all who are taking on new tasks with BARTG.

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 7:14 AM, Roger Cooke <roger at g3ldi.co.uk> wrote:

>
>
> *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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-- 
   73,
   Mike, K4GMH