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Subject: [CQ-Contest] QST -- the half hour NS (NCCC Sprint) RTTY contest is this Thursday evening in North America -- WE ARE NOW ON STANDARD TIME
From: Ed Radlo via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Reply-to: Ed Radlo <eddrad@aol.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2022 19:17:42 +0000 (UTC)
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To all RTTYops:  

This is areminder that once again, the Northern California Contest Club is 
pleased topresent our regular weekly half hour RTTY Sprint, aka the NS RTTY, 
thisThursday evening North America time.

Remember,the North American continent is now on Standard Time.  This contest 
always starts at the same Coordinated Universal Time (0145Z eachFriday, 52 
months of the year), regardless of whether local time is Daylight Savings Time 
orStandard Time.  That means that most ofus will be starting at a different 
local time than we wereon when the continent was on Daylight Savings Time.  I 
know of at least two ops who were thrown bythe time change last week.

Last week,we had VE2FK join us, giving us the much appreciated QC multiplier.  
Wehope to have a large group in this week’s contest!

To answerone of the 3830 posters from last week: yes, this contest gets easier 
the more experience you have with it.

For thoseof you who are new to our weekly NS RTTY’s, we use a variation of the 
NCJ’sSprint QSY rule – 1 KHz QSY’s rather than 5 KHz – and allow duplicate 
contactsafter one intervening contact.  If you need a full explanation ofthese 
special rules, send me an e-mail, and I’ll give you all the details,e.g., a 
precise definition of our QSY rule. 

So rememberto QSY after you’ve made a contact that you‘ve solicited, and also 
remember togive both callsigns as part of the exchange.

For thoseof you using the popular N1MM+ logger, the contest module to use 
isNSRTTYDUPE.  A good set of example function keys is in the N1MM+ 
website'sfunction key gallery, and available for free download. 

After thecontest, please remember to submit your scores to www.3830scores.com. 
It’s easy – on 3830, the name of this contest is “NCCC RTTYSprint”.  Reporting 
your score, whether it be big or small, helpsbuild enthusiasm for this event. 
That in turn increases participation forfuture editions, which benefits all of 
us. 

Remember totry 15 meters at the beginning of this Thursday night's contest – 15 
hasusually been open at 0145Z lately, at least for some locations.

Thedetails of our next NS RTTY: 

Friday, 18 November 2022 UTC, 0145Z to 0215Z (Thursday, 17 November 2022 in 
NorthAmerica)

-- 1745to 1815 PST

-- 2045to 2115 EST

--(others in between those two time intervals)

-- 160meters:  Try 1804, 1805, or 1806 during the last two minutes

--80/40/20/15 meters:  mostly +83 kHz to +89 kHz up from the lowerband edge

-- Sameband dupes are allowed for credit after one intervening QSO

-- 1kHz QSY rule, otherwise standard NCJ Sprint QSY rules

--Multipliers are counted anew on each band, so if 4 bands are open, you’ll get 
alot of mults!

-- 100Woutput power limit

Pleasevisit https://www.ncccsprint.com/rttyns.html forcomplete rules and links 
to other info. If you find any problems with the Webpages, please let me know 
so we can get them fixed. 

If youwould like to receive all the latest info about NS (both CW and RTTY), as 
wellas a have a vehicle for expressing your comments and questions, sign up for 
theNS mailing list:  https://groups.io/g/nccc-blue. ;

Contestonlinescore.com hasa slot set up for us if you’d like to make sure your 
logger is talking to theworld.  Select “NCCC NA RTTY Sprint”. 

Reportscores to 3830scores.com, andjoin us at 0300Z on 3610 kHz (+/- a few 
depending upon who else is on) forcomments and questions. 

73, 

EdRadlo  AJ6V

 

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