[RTTY] Contest this weekend
Don AA5AU
aa5au at bellsouth.net
Thu Dec 17 23:00:33 EST 2015
Although the rules do not mention assistance, in the OK DX RTTY contest, all categories are allowed assistance such as use of Packetcluster, skimmers, etc.
73, Don AA5AU
From: Art (K5FNQ) <k5fnq at lusfiber.net>
To: ed at w0yk.com; 'RTTY Reflector' <rtty at contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2015 9:23 PM
Subject: Re: [RTTY] Contest this weekend
I saw nothing in the rules or classes as to assisted or not. Are there any?
Art K5FNQ
On 12/17/2015 12:32 PM, Ed Muns wrote:
> This contest provides RTTY activity for us to operate our stations but has
> some specific rules that are worth noting.
>
> 1) Single-Op entrants can change bands only once per 5-minute period. This
> effectively rules out SO2R unless you don't care about score or you enter as
> a Multi-Op.
>
> 2) QSOs with stations not submitting a log are removed if that station is
> not in at least 2 other submitted logs. If you are a casual operator and
> don't submit a log, it would be polite to work at least, say, 10 stations to
> increase the chance that at least 3 of them will submit logs and all the
> QSOs will count.
>
> 3) Mults are DXCC countries, which favors locations that can work Europe
> well. But, everyone works everyone, so valid QSOs should be plentiful.
>
> 4) The exchange is RST + CQ Zone, although zones are not mults.
>
> Ed W0YK
>
> _________________________________________________________________
>
> Bill W6WRT wrote:
>
> Just a reminder of the OK DX RTTY contest this coming weekend.
> This is a 24 hour contest which starts at 0000 UTC Saturday.
>
> Rules in English:
>
> http://okrtty.crk.cz/index.php?page=english
>
> Hope to see you there.
>
> 73, Bill W6WRT
>
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