NEW ARRL ROTA AWARD - Repeaters On The Air

The American Amateur Radio League has announced a brand new award program effective November 1, 2021.  In order to counteract the North American wide phenomenon of inactive, dead-air repeaters, the ARRL as initiated the Repeaters On The Air (ROTA) Award. Absolutely no simplex contacts will be allowed and submissions of such will be grounds for automatic disqualification as are contacts made via D, E & F Layer propagation, only contacts made via full duplex repeaters will count.    All Digital & Analog Modes are acceptable.

Points for QSO's will be assigned thus:

Repeaters used once a day:                                                         1 point
Repeaters activated once a week for Local Nets only:            2 points
Repeaters that have not been kerchunked in over a year: 100 points

QSO Multipliers are thus:

ISS repeater multiplier                      =X(-100)
​2M band point multiplier                 = X (-5)
70cm band point multiplier             = X (0)
6M band point multiplier                 = X (10)
10M band point multiplier               = X (100)
33cm band point multiplier             = X (1000)
23cm band point multiplier             = X (1000)
above 23cm band point multiplier = X (10000)

Certificates will be awarded at 1,000,000 points with endorsement for each million points thereafter.  Full details of ROTA will be posted to the ARRL web site November 1, 2021.

-VA7SL reporting from ARRL HQ,  Newington CT,.
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