[RTTY] Question about ARI contest rules

[Tapani Juhola]

A valid question, Bill.

Also, could anyone enlighten us, whether the results of the 2009 
and 2010 editions of the ARI Contest (esp. RTTY cat.) are available 
to the great public?

73 de Tapani/OH2LU


On Sun, 01 May 2011 19:16:22 -0700, dezrat1242 at yahoo.com wrote:

>The ARI contest is this coming weekend. Rules at:
>
>http://www.ari.it/images/stories/hf/ARI_International_DX_Contest_2011_Rules-1.pdf
>
>There is something in the scoring rules that makes no sense to me. You
>can work your own country once per band for multiplier credit only, but
>no point credit. Unlike some other contests, there is no division of a
>country into call areas. A country is an entire country, period. 
>
>Just to be sure I understood it correctly, I put some test Q's into N1MM
>Logger and that is indeed how it is scored. 
>
>I can envision calling CQ and getting hundreds of calls from my own
>country, only one of which does me any good (per band). I can not really
>refuse to work them because for them, I might be a multiplier. Thus,
>huge amounts of wasted time. And yet each station does need to work his
>own country once per band. 
>
>If the purpose of the rules is to encourage DX contacts only, why not
>make one's own country zero credit? No points, no mults. Then you could
>politely tell same-country callers "DX ONLY" or the equivalent. 
>
>Am I missing something here?
>
>I do not speak Italian, so if someone who does could pose this question
>to Roberto Soro, I2WIJ, the A.R.I. HF Contest Manager, perhaps a logical
>reason could be forthcoming. 
>
>73, Bill W6WRT
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