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[CQ-Contest] NS RTTY Announcement

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Subject: [CQ-Contest] NS RTTY Announcement
From: Matt Murphy <matt@nq6n.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 13:46:14 -0700
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announcing the still experimental but very popular...

NS RTTY - "RTTY Contesting on the Edge"  This Thursday night at 0230Z (Fri)

               1830 Pacific   1930 Mountain 2030 Central 2130 Eastern
Time -- Thursday Night
               30 minutes exactly.

Great prep for NA RTTY Sprints.

     - 160, 80, 40  and 20m  40 KHz up from band edge or 1815 [please
spread out]
     - 100 watts maximum
     - Sprint format,
             - mults per band
             - 1 KHz QSY rule.
     - Contact stations once per band i.e. no same-band duplicate Q's.
     - For now post scores to nccc-blue reflector.

Rules:  http://www.ncccsprint.com/ladder.html
CW Ladder Schedule:  http://www.ncccsprint.com/next_ns.html

Important rules:
   1) Strictly observe the time limits  . . see
http://www.ncccsprint.com/rules.html paragraph "Time".
   2)  After 2nd Q of couplet, please leave a pause for the cq'ing
stn to ask for fills.

Setup:  Hank, W6SX, has generously provided the F-Key configuration
file he uses for N1MM, both for the CW and RTTY Sprint to serve as
examples of a successful SO1V configuration. Links below.

RTTY: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7933320/ns/f-key%20files/ns_rtty.mc
CW: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7933320/ns/f-key%20files/ns.mc

nccc-blue reflector:  All are invited to join this low-volume
reflector for discussing NS and NS Ladder topics.  Sign up at:
http://www.kkn.net/mailman/listinfo/nccc-blue   Phil, W6PK will see
your request.

73 Matt NQ6N, Guest Conductor

questions to nq6n@arrl.net
or any Advisory Group member.   N6ZFO, N4AF, N6WM, K6UFO, W4NZ, K4BAI,
W9RE, N3BB and W0BH

p.s. Join the fun in the NS CW Sprint which starts one hour later,
on the same day as the RTTY contest.  See the separate announcement.
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