[RTTY] Question about ARI contest rules

[CT3FQ (Carlos Neves)]

There is another question with no answer.
Where could we find the 2009 DX Results.
I found the 2009 Results  in ARI site only for Italian stations

Where are the DX 2009 Results?

73

Carlos

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "danrolla" <iw1qla at tin.it>
To: <rtty at contesting.com>
Cc: <i2wij at yahoo.com>
Sent: Monday, May 02, 2011 6:31 PM
Subject: Re: [RTTY] Question about ARI contest rules


> Bill,
>
> I forwarded your question to Bob I2WIJ, the new ARI Contest Manager. Find
> following his answer. He also told me that he will try to join the list
> asap.
>
> 73 de Dan, I1-12387
>
> ====== inizio risposta =====
>
> Hi Bill,
> thanks to Dan I received your question and I am happy to answer.
> Sorry that you don't speak my language, but luckily I can speak your
> (though maybe not fluently or correctly).
> Apart this, coming to your question, my first comment is that it
> is a good question.
> My second comment is that, unfortunately, time is too short now
> for any possible change, supposed it is needed.
> Rule are the same since the birth of this contest, but nevertheless
> there is no reason why they cannot be updated and/or better shaped.
> Certainly this rule has been introduced to encourage DX contacts,
> as you noted, and it is the same as the CQWWDX contests
> (even if ARI DX is quite another story, compared to the CQWW, hi).
> I can promised I will keep this suggestion for the next year edition
> among some other changes which have been requested/suggested
> by others.
> By the way, I hope you will enter the ARI DX Contest anyway!
> Usually there is a good activity in RTTY during this contest.
> I hope to meet you on the bands next weekend.
> Best regards,
> --
> Bob, I2WIJ
> A.R.I. HF Contest Manager
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rtty-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:rtty-bounces at contesting.com]On
> Behalf Of Bill, W6WRT
> Sent: lunedi 2 maggio 2011 2.16
> To: rtty at contesting.com
> Subject: [RTTY] Question about ARI contest rules
>
>
> 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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