PLEASE NOTE:

This contest is run seperately from the original VK/TransTasman contest. All logs should be sent to ZL3AKM at the address given in the rules.

This contest has been introduced to fill the gap left by the demise of the previous VK/Trans-Tasman CW contests. While there have been around 50 active stations each year in each of the CW contests, the lack of submitted logs, and the structure of the scoring system made the contest unviable. To address this, the new Trans-Tasman CW & Digital contest aims to boost activity and contact rates by: introducing digital modes to the contest, and allow stations to be contacted twice per hour (once on CW and once on digital). The use of CW decoding software is actively encouraged to boost CW activity.

The scoring system remains the same as 2010, which is a modification of the phone VK/Trans-Tasman contest and previous CW only trans-Tasman contests. The key differences are:

• No Participation Factor. The points tables have been altered instead to reflect the bias in the number of stations on each side of the Tasman.
• 160m trans-Tasman and  VK/E-VK/W contact points have been increased to reflect the aditional difficulty on this band.
• A new "Mode Multiplier" has been added for 2010, to encourage stations to try different digital modes, and to try both CW and digital modes. Contacts made in the lowest scoring hour count toward the mode multiplier giving extra incentive to work all hours, even if only a few contacts are made.