[NLRS] Two topics of interest for VHF+ contesters

[Jon Platt]

Hello NLRS land From the recent ARRL Contest Update letter I noticed two topics that may be of interest to VHF+ ops.  See the cut and paste below. 73, JonW0ZQ 1.  The latest version of N1MM Logger+ supports the ARRL 10 GHz and Up contest. The name of the contest to use is new contest dialog is "ARRL10GHZ." If you made contacts in the August running of the contest, you could enter the contacts manually into the logging program and edit the time and date to generate a Cabrillo file and verify proper logging operation. 2.  Joe, W1JT, has announced the release of WSJT-X 2.0 rc1. This is a new major version number for the WSJT-X program, with many new FT8 and MSK144 features of particular interest (and impact) to contesters. While a previous ARRL website article covered the prospective changes, Joe has published a more recent point-by-point summary of the features on his website. Specific contest-related changes include:   
   - Better support for North American VHF Contests with improved handling of grids and /R rover call sign designators
   - Six-character locators and call sign suffix support for portable operators focused on EU VHF contesting
   - Support for ARRL Field Day exchanges
   - Support for ARRL RTTY Roundup exchanges
   - Support for call signs up to 11 characters to support non-standard and compound call signs
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