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Subject: [CQ-Contest] Thursday night contesting
From: Chris Tate - N6WM <ctate@ewnetinc.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 08:20:41 -0800
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****Announcing the NCCC's (Northern California Contest Club) weekly Thursday 
night running of the SNS.****

Please wait just a split second on jump balls ("ns" talk for several stations 
answering a CQ).  Please be aware of the fact that there are stations just 
getting acclimated to sprinting, and can be easily intimidated so keep a sharp 
friendly ear, and maybe let a station inheriting a frequency throw out a cq 
prior to calling them.

Please keep your speed to between 18 to 26  WPM.  Stations running on the 
higher side of this please be willing to QRS for some of the slower operators.  
Remember we are trying to welcome new sprinters to our ranks!

We will be preceding the NS Ladder competition (A fantastic warm up for all!), 
with a 10 minute break prior. So for now, the Slow Speed NS is from 0200z to 
0220z+ (Friday UTC, Thursday local time).  That's starting at 9:00pm EDT, 
8:00pm CDT, 7:00pm MDT and 6:00pm PDT, local time Thursday .

Frequencies:
20 m      14037-14043
40 m      7040-7047
80 m      3537-3543

POWER: 100 watt limit.

If you don't hear a CQ, send a CQ and don't worry about the couplet since this 
is only practice and hopefully an introduction to sprints for newbies.  I think 
stations might answer a CQ more likely than call CQ themselves.  With that said 
remember that newbies are listening to get up the nerve to jump in so don't 
hesitate to make Q's.

NSL(NCCC Sprint Ladder #10) starts this week 0230z to 0300z (See N6ZFO's 
announcement).

The SNS, NS and NS Ladder and the NCCC/NS Net on 3610 immediately following are 
all part of the "Thursday night contesting" experience sponsored by the 
Northern California Contest Club!


Sites to help everyone for sprint contests.

NS home website is:
http://www.ncccsprint.com/
http://www.contesting.com/articles/198
http://n6tr.jzap.com/sprint.html

Need help with your logging software, macros, etc.? Feel free to drop me an 
email and we will do our best to assist!

73 es GL

New SNS Website and more exciting changes to come in the near future!  We are 
working on it so stay tuned!

Chris
N6WM
Contest Director, SNS

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