Before yelling about the Field Day rule changes, please look at last year's
rules.
Here's my summary of the changes. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
- You don't get the 100 points for making at least 5 VHF/UHF contacts (in
addition to the point value of the contacts themselves)
- You don't get the 100 points for making at least one packet contacts (in
addition to the point value of the contacts themselves)
- Packet contacts can only be station-to-station (can't use digis)
- It isn't clear whether digital satellite contacts or the MIR digi will
be allowed
- You can work the same station in both CW and a non-CW digital mode on
the same ham band.
- Contact point value (1 for voice, 2 for digital/CW) is unchanged from
previous years (Yep, RTTY/Packet always counted the same as CW...)
We will have to wait until the actual rules come out to see what really
has changed.
/mike
n1ist@netcom.com
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