[RTTY] JARTS WW RTTY Contest this weekend

7L4IOU ncb02761 at nifty.com
Fri Oct 17 04:06:45 EDT 2014


Hello Ed-san,

Thanks for your attention.
We share recognition.

73, Hisami 7L4IOU
JARTS Contest Manager


>Note that for the US, "Call Areas" are handled different in this 
>contest as
>compared to the BARTG events.
>
>For JARTS WW RTTY, US stations are not required to sign their call 
>sign with
>a portable designator when they operate in a "call areas" different 
>than
>their call sign prefix would indicate.  The rules only require that 
>the
>license regulations are followed and in the US it is not required to 
>use a
>portable designator when operating from a call area different than the 
>call
>sign prefix.  For example, W0YK operating from California does not 
>have to
>sign "W0YK/6", but can choose to sign only "W0YK".
>
>However, the contest multiplier depends on the call sign as 
>transmitted.  In
>the same example, signing "W0YK" will count as the Zero call area, 
>whereas
>signing "W0YK/6" will count as the Sixth call area for multiplier 
>purposes.
>
>Ed W0YK
>
>------------------------------------------------
>
>Hisami-san 7L4IOU announced:
>
>Dear fellow contester,
>
>The JARTS WW RTTY Contest is held on Oct. 18-19 (this weekend).
>
>We have the great pleasure to invite you to the 23th WW RTTY CONTEST
>conducted by the Japanese Amateur Radio Teleprinter Society, JARTS.
>
>2014 Rules and 2013 Results are online at http://www.jarts.jp
>
>if you have any questions, please email to questions at jarts.jp
>
>73 & GL! de JARTS Contest Committee 
>
>--
>Hisami 7L4IOU
>
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