[TransAtlantic] 144 Mhz Transatlantic "Brendan Cup" Rules cut and paste from WEB site

[Lance Collister]

MNI TNX for the clarification!

http://www.irts.ie/cgi/brendan.cgi#b

I see that there are awards for both a "traditional" SSB/CW contact and digital 
mode contact.  While it would certainly be exciting to hear strong SSB signals and 
have them last long enough for a two-way contact, I would think that would be much 
less likely to be possible.  Anyway, this provides for a couple of totally 
different approaches, which adds to the excitement and probably greatly increases 
the chance for success ;-)

I also think that - unless there is an extended opening which lasts a long time - 
it is going to be very difficult to ascertain whether the contact involved a 
transitory link that was "natural" or "man-made".  I am convinced that many of the 
signals heard on VHF these days are as a result of propagation caused by man-made 
objects (satellites at various orbital heights, jet airplanes, etc.).

The question of what qualifies as allowable station locations seems to be pretty 
clearly defined by their references to the continental shelves.  In terms of DXCC, 
it is quite clear that anything that is removed from the continental shelf 
qualifies as a separate DXCC.  That is why there can be many of those separate 
DXCC off the coast of EU.  It seems quite clear that their intent was not to 
structure the awards based on contacts to the mid-Atlantic, but between the 
continents of NA and EU.

What I think shows particularly good vision is the award of plates for partial 
contacts.  That encourages people to set up high power beacons and rewards them if 
they are just heard ;-)  However, it certainly would behoove the listener to make 
a recording of the signal...

GL to all!  VY 73, Lance


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