CQ WW DX RTTY Contest
September 23-24, 2017
Starts: 0000 GMT Saturday
Ends: 2359 GMT Sunday
RULES
GOAL: For amateurs around the world to contact as many other amateurs in as many CQ zones, countries, and W/VE QTHs as possible.
BANDS: Five bands only: 3.5, 7, 14, 21 and 28 MHz. Observance of established band plans is strongly encouraged.
EXCHANGE: RST report plus CQ zone number of the station location (e.g., 599 14). Stations in the continental USA and Canada also send QTH (e.g., 599 05 MA). See IV.C.3. below.
All Rules can be read and download in several different languages at the official CQ WW RTTY Web Site
FREE RTTY SOFTWARE
Here is a selection of popular free to use RTTY programs, many more links to RTTY software can be found on our dedicated links category.
MMTTY is a popular windows free software for RTTY amateur radio operations. This freeware run on Win XP, Win7 Vista and Win8 by JE3HHT. You can download MMTTY software from the official English Website by VE5KC
Fldigi Freeware Digital multi mode program for Linux, Free-BSD, MacOS X and MS Windows . Support CW and several digital modes like PSK31, MFSK, RTTY, Olivia, WeFax, Hell and others and is a fully multi platform application
CQ ZONES
