If you’re new to contesting, you may find some of those scores even in the U.S. Likewise different regions even in the US. That is why you see breakdowns of scores by regions in results articles.

Working between France and Germany is worth 4 points on 40m, but between Ohio and Indiana is only 2 points. Looking at the results from the stations who have publicly reported results and their band breakdowns to the Contest Online Scoreboard, you can see that the stations with the highest scores took advantage of those low bands.Ī side note on scores: EU stations will, for the most part, have a higher score in this contest than US stations due to the extra points awarded for working a different country on the same continent. In WPX you can use that to your advantage and bang out US and Canadian stations on 80 and 40 at a strong rate and with a point advantage that negates their 3 point contacts to Europe. Yes, that extra gain gives them an advantage on the upper bands when conditions are marginal – but sometimes those same stations stay fixated on those upper bands because they’ve invested so much time and money into the upper band system and just have a couple of wires for the lower bands.

This scoring system, coupled with the fact that this is NOT a DX contest, allows smaller stations to be competitive against even the “big guns.” A lot of the big contest stations have sunk 6 figures (or more!) into tower systems and stacked/phased beams giving them 5-elements-over-5-elements-over-5-elements on 20 or 15 to Europe. One of the important things to note about WPX RTTY is the point structure.

So I’m rather pleased to state that 5 years later we finally did it – and in band conditions that were not nearly as favorable as in 2016. In fact, the very next year (2017) we had less than half the score. Every year after that (as NW8S in 2017, AB8M in 2018, KB8O in 2019, and NW8S in 2020) we’ve failed to meet the expectation we set with that first score. We ended up with a final score of 3.9 million and set the M/2 record for the 8th call area. Here is a list of contests supported by AALog contest module:ĪALog contest module v2.1.Finally! The WPX RTTY contest we’ve been trying to have! In 2016, KB8O, KM8V (then N8USK), and AB8M operated our first multi-op / 2 transmitter CQ WPX RTTY contest from KB8Os new QTH. Platform: Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP/Vista/7/8/10Ĭontest module is a simple and fast program for contests. To use this program in CW and digital modes you need to use CwType and TrueTTY. Simple software to handle devices connected to LPT portĪ special edition of AALog, optimized for the use in a lot of different contests. A tool for monitoring popular web-cluster service from OH9W/OH2AQ Radio Club

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