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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.

  • Entrants follow the regular rules for a single-op, except they are logging the received QSO and not transmitting.
  • Optionally, each side of a QSO may be logged as separate QSO lines, i.e., two lines.
  • Received call signs may not appear more than three times per band in the log.  Any additional entries of the same call sign will not count.
  • Logs must be submitted in the standard Cabrillo format for CQ WPX RTTY.  Make sure one of the following lines is in the header:
    CATEGORY: SWL
    CATEGORY-TRANSMITTER: SWL
    (these are Cabrillo 2.0 and 3.0, respectively)

2009 CQ WPX RTTY Contest

February 14-15, 2009

Starts: 0000 GMT Saturday
Ends: 2359 GMT Sunday

(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:

  • 8-band-changes per hour (from 6) for MS & M2

  • Low Power limit of 100 watts (from 150)

  • Low Power Single-Band categories

  • Rookie category eliminated

  • SWL category managed by SWL community1

  • Spanish and Asiatic Russian areas added to awards

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:

  • No 1.8 MHz operation

  • Packet allowed in all entry classes

  • single-op 30-hour limit (vs. 36)

  • Cross-country contacts within any continent (not just North America) get 2 or 4 points

  • no mult transmitter for multi-single

  • 8-band-change limit for multi-single (vs. 10-minute rule)

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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