Upcoming contests

As your contest manager, if no one objects, I will take some space here , more or less weekly, to point out some of the lesser known activities coming up.

This week’s plug:
Makrothen RTTY Distance Contest
This is not some obscure Bulgarian event, but a California-based, relatively young contest with interesting scoring and op time features. I found some decent activity last year. Scoring by distance gained credibility when it was included in the new WW-Digi contest. The broken-up time periods are a help to those of us who don’t have the oomph to last out a 24 much less a 48 hour BIC marathon.
Local times: 8pm Fri–4am Sat, Noon-8pm Sat, 4am-Noon Sun.
Bands: 80 thru 10
Modes: RTTY
Exchange: 4 char. grid
Multipliers: None
Scoring: Work stations once per band. 1 pt per km distance. 1.5x for 40m and 2x for 80m.
Assistance: Allowed, separate categories
Rules: http://www.pl259.org/makrothen/makrothen-rules/

I see that last year I secured CTRI a 94th place finish among 109 clubs.

Also up: Oceania DX CW, Scandinavian Activity Contest SSB

3 comments on “Upcoming contests

  1. Tried the MAKROTHEN (sp?) part time. Wow. Work two or three EU’s and your score is already over a million. Well not quite but the score being based on distance does jump up real fast if you’re working an EU opening. I worked 140 Q’s for a score of 707,723. I’ll put this on my calendar for next year

    JIm KS1J

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