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Welcome to the official web site of CQ World Wide RTTY Contest.

Held each year on the last full weekend of September, the contest draws over 15,000 participants and over 2500 log submittals from around the world.

MixW Cabrillo Logs

Many of the Cabrillo format problems in submitted logs are from MixW users.  Thanks to Rich, VE3KI (ex-VE3IAY), for the MixW Notes section on the Logs web page which explains how to setup and use MixW so that the Cabrillo log created after the contest will be readily accepted by the log robot.

CQ WW RTTY DX Contest

September 29-30, 2012

Starts: 0000 GMT Saturday
Ends: 2400 GMT Sunday

The 2012 event begins in:

Identical wording is used for both the RTTY and CW/SSB rules where the intent is the same. However, there are some key differences for the RTTY mode:

• No 1.8 MHz operation

• No QRP or Xtreme categories, no Team Contesting.

• Contact points:
  -  Different-country contacts within any continent (not just North America) get 2 points
  -  Same-country contacts get 1 point

• Multi-Single:
  - High and Low power categories
  - 8-band-changes per clock hour (not 10-minute rule)

• 15 October 2011 log submittal deadline

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2011 Rules

• English PDF
• French PDF
• Greek PDF
• Spanish PDF
  Note: If you can translate to these or other languages, please send to the contest director.

List of received logs for 2011

Results

Searchable Scores Database

"A Look at the CQ WW RTTY Contest": A PVRC-sponsored webinar was held on 19 September 2010, 1900-2030UTC.  The recording is available at the link above.  Agenda:

• History of CQ WW RTTY
• Distinctive rules from the CW/SSB CQ WW events
• Score Database
• Plaques and Certificates
• Logging considerations
• Log Check Reports
• Stories and Pictures
• PDF of the slides shown.