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Welcome Welcome to the official web site of CQ WPX RTTY Contest. Held each year on the second full weekend of February, the contest draws thousands of entries from around the world. 1 SWL Participation While primarily an amateur radio contest, WPX RTTY is also popular with SWL enthusiasts. Thanks to Marek, SP7DQR, who has written SWL log check software and to Dan, I1-12387, who will lead the SWL log checking.
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2009 CQ WPX RTTY ContestFebruary 14-15, 2009 Starts: 0000 GMT Saturday (15 Feb 2009) Rule VII (c) did not change. Contacts within the same country count 1 point for the high bands and 2 points for the low bands. There is a typo in the rules published in the January 2009 issue of CQ Magazine and on this web site that was corrected today. Note a number of changes made in the 2009 rules, such as:
The intent is to reduce differences between RTTY and CW/SSB by using identical rule wording where the intent is substantially the same. However, there remain some key differences for the RTTY mode:
An inadvertent contradiction exists for M2 serial numbering. It is supposed to be by-band as in MM, but in the Exchange rule VI it states "single serial number sequence" for MS and M2. Thus, either serial numbering method is acceptable this year. |
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