The Winter running of the NA RTTY Sprint is this weekend, 00-04Z, 15 March (Saturday evening NA time). It's a short, fun contest that increases skill in quickly finding, tuning and working RTTY QSOs.
Due to popular request, especially from those trying RTTY Sprint for the first time, let's have another practice the day before. It will precede the regular CW NS (NCCC Sprint) and perhaps the earli
The log submittal deadline for the 2009 CQ WPX RTTY contest is Sunday. Logs received after Sunday may not be included in the results or eligible for awards. Every log is valuable for the log checking
One good reason for doing lots of CQing is that you may not be able to break the pile-ups, especially in the early minutes on a band. Rather than being frustrated, you can find a clear frequency and
Be careful about interpreting what you think the intent of the rules are in any contest. It is seldom cut and dried. In Sprint, whenever you can work the "couplet" by finding a new station to work,
Yes, the robot is bouncing all your log submittals because the date is still set for last October. Please QRX, the IT guy has been contacted. I'll put out another post when it is up. Mucho apologies,
I just submitted my RTTY Sprint log and got the proper email response back from the robot. Thanks to the volunteer "IT guys" for jumping on this immediately once I was able to reach them. You should
I've always understood "off-times" to only occur between QSOs. Starting late or finishing early are not constrained by an off-time limit, e.g., 60 minutes. However, the total amount of "time off" or
With or without off-time? Ed - W0YK _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/cq-contest
The same thing could happen in the middle of your operating time and, yes, it would be subject to the 60-minute minimum off time rule. But your original example, where it occurs before you made your
Please be sure your log is submitted by today to the log upload web form at http://www.ncjweb.com/sprintlogsubmit.php. There are 104 logs on the server now, a record number for this contest. Ed - W0Y
Results for last Saturday's Sprint are now on the NCJ web site: http://www.ncjweb.com/sprintrttyprelim.php. Thanks to all who helped make this a record-setting RTTY Sprint with 290 participants in th
Yes, I've had email from stations worked in a contest and I just ignore it, even if doing so decreases my score. In your example, if the KB6 had removed the QSO from his log but not emailed you, the
Removing a QSO from the log as a result of receiving an email is a rules violation. Ed - W0YK _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://
Hi, Rick. Perhaps I misunderstood your original post. It says you received an email from a station which informed you he was taking a QSO out of his log and you should do the same. If that is true an
Thanks to Pat, K0PC, for creating a custom NS contest module for WriteLog! It is not available on the WriteLog web page on the NCCC Sprint web site, www.ncccsprint.com/writelog.htm. There are specifi
Typo ... "It is NOW available ..." Ed - W0YK _______________________________________________ WriteLog mailing list WriteLog@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/writelog WriteL
This is a subtle, but important, point. Of course it is healthy for contesting when competitors push the state of skills, techniques and technologies to raise the bar of competition and encourage al
NCCC is sponsoring a practice session for NAQP RTTY from 0230-0300 Saturday (Friday evening NA time). 20 & 40 should be good across NA with 80 good for short skip and 10/15 for ground wave. It's a gr
This is not an issue for me and I change key definitions for every contest. 1. For the Fn keys in the top row of the keyboard, I customize a single strip of paper with labels. I have a PowerPoint fi