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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 2300 entries 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.

Certificate "Call Areas"

In the results, some call signs have a portable designator added when none was used in the contest.  For example, W0YK sends that call sign when operating from California.  However, in the results listing his entry is shown as 'W0YK/6' because he operated from the US 6th call area.  This is done to clarify that W0YK's results are grouped with all others in his category from US call area 6 solely for the purpose of certificate awards.

See the AWARDS section of the Rules where it states that certificates are awarded on a country basis except for the US, Canada, Russia, Spain, Australia and Japan.  Certificates are awarded by call areas in these six large countries.  "Call areas" generally conform to the ten numerical call areas, 0-9, but in some cases there are groupings where there isn't an explicit numerical call area.  Two examples of this are in Canada where, for CQ certificate purposes, Canadian call area 1 is defined as the prefixes (and, multipliers) east of VE2, i.e., VE1, VE9,  VO1, VO2, and VY2.  Canadian call area 8 is similarly defined as VE8, VY0 and VY1.

These assigned call areas are only for the purpose of certificate awards.  Multipliers are independently defined in the MULTIPLIERS section of the rules.  Logs are checked using the call signs actually sent during the contest.

CQ WW RTTY Contest

September 25-26, 2010

Starts: 0000 GMT Saturday
Ends: 2400 GMT Sunday

Contest 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)

  • Multi-Two
    - 8-band-changes per clock hour (not 10-minute rule)

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