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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Same country QSOs earn one (1) point for 10/15/20 meter
contacts and two (2) points for 40/80 meter contacts. There has been no
change from prior years and logging software does not need to be changed.
There was a typo in rule VII(c) of the 2009 CQ WPX RTTY Rules published in the
January issue of CQ Magazine and on the web site, <a
href="http://www.cqwpxrtty.com/">www.cqwpxrtty.com</a>. The web site Rules
have been corrected and a note added to the home page. I apologize for
any confusion. I became aware of the issue when scanning email during an
off-time in the contest this weekend.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>However, there were some other minor rule changes in 2009
and those have been enumerated on the home page for several weeks now. At
least three of them may affect logging software:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:39.0pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><font
size=2 face=Symbol><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></font></span></span></font><![endif]><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Increase in band-change limits for
MS and M2, which has gone from six (6) to eight (8) per clock hour<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:39.0pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><font
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style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span
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</span></font></span></span></font><![endif]><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Addition of low power single-band
entries (Cabrillo header)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:39.0pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><font
size=2 face=Symbol><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span
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</span></font></span></span></font><![endif]><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Elimination of the Rookie category (Cabrillo
header)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:3.0pt'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Another apology is due here for not
notifying the contest authors when the rules were published last Fall. I
forgot that some logging software cares about these things. Software
authors should review all the changes in the 2009 Rules and, more importantly,
in the 2010 rules to be published later this year.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Ed – W0YK<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>CQ RTTY contest director<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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