Will be out this week. Dealing with catastrophic computer failure --
hard disk crash on the laptop that's been running everything for the
past two and half years. XYL donated hers to the cause since she now
does almost everything on her iPad and it has been sitting virtually
unused. I've got a lot of her files to copy and clear out, a lot of mine
to transfer over, and a lot of downloading and configuring to do before
I'll have the whole system back in the shape it was. I'd much rather be
playing radio than futzing around with computers. Y'all have fun, and
I'll miss being there!
73,
Steve K4DXV
On 3/23/2016 12:21 AM, Ken K6MR wrote:
Greetings Diddlers!
Yep, me again. I trust all you RTTY types spent some quality time this last weekend on the
keyboard. But it wasn’t a Sprint now, was it? Perhaps you’ve still got the
Sprint itch from a couple of weeks ago?
That’s what we like to hear!. We had a good turnout last week for our little
weekly get together, with many regulars and a few fresh calls. Dick, KS0M jumped into
the mix for the first time. Dick tried the real Sprint and decided he needed a weekly
dose of the Sprint magic. Welcome! Relative newcomers N9ADG and WT2P were in there
also. WD0T was back after being on the lamb for a while (bringing back the rare SD
mult) as well as the Canadian contingent, so we had a full house.
The time change didn’t seem to catch anyone off guard, but your final reminder: for you in
the DST zones, local time is one hour later than the usual winter time slot. Hopefully as the days
get longer we will get 15 meters back for some extra Qs. And don’t forget: the next Real RTTY
Sprint is only 25 weeks away (approximately). Don’t get caught out of practice!
I am sorry I can’t match the “straight key night” being offered by the other
mode this week. Hand keyed RTTY is a little rough!
Here’s the usual list of times, rules and extra notes:
Friday, 25 Mar 2016, 0145Z - 0215Z (Thursday 24 Mar 2016 in NA)
-- 1845 - 1915 PDT
-- 2145 - 2215 EDT
-- (others in-between those two)
-- 160: 1805 and up
-- 80/40/20/15 +80kHz up from the band edge
-- Same band dupes ok after 1 intervening Q.
-- 1 kHz QSY rule, otherwise standard Sprint rules
-- Mults per band.
-- 100W power limit.
Please visit http://www.ncccsprint.com/rttyns.html for complete rules
and links to other info. If you find any problems with the web pages, please
let me know so we can get them fixed.
Report scores to 3830scores.com, and join us at 0300Z on 3610 kHz
for comments and questions (and dinner menus).
Diddle diddle,
Ken K6MR
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