[Moon-net] ARRL contest rules

[Edward R. Cole]

At 10:03 AM 10/21/2006 +0000, Bruinier at t-online.de wrote:
>
>Gentlemen,
>as it turns out, there is a considerable number of supporters for separate
ARRL WSJT resp. CW contest(s). Please inform the ARRL contest people
accordingly when sending in your logs, be it in the "Soapbox" or by
appropriate comments.
>BTW, I share HB9BBD's view concerning future single weekend events when
moon dec is close to zero degrees. = Equal chances for all "earthlings".
>
>73 Jan DL9KR.

But you will lose any chance working Alaska.  I just checked MoonSked for
19/10/2006  (declination=0) for common window with GM4JJJ:  It is less than
30-min at 1600utc with my az= 115, elev=13 and his az= 267, el= 2.  Anyone
east of the UK will have NO common Moon window with Alaska.  Setting the
contest weekend for dec=0 will result in KL6M, KL7HFQ, KL7FH and KL7UW
being excluded from working over half the participants (since EU has
greater activity).  This will likewise affect all high latitude European
and Asian stations.

I would recommend a higher dec angle to compromise with southern
hemispheric stations. 
73's,
Ed - KL7UW  
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