This week NCCC Thursday Night Contesting resumes the fast and furious
NCCC Sprint Ladder (NSL), now in it?s seventh year. NSL-VIII runs for
10 weeks, with participants? six high scores counting toward awards of
California wine from the ham radio vineyard of W0YK. The contest?s
controversial dupe rule, used through last summer to maintain a high QSO
rate, is history. This Spring ?10 edition of NSL will be a 4-band
affair, 20-160m cw, in the 0230-0300Z (Friday) time slot. For those who
wish to learn the sprint format, or who may be wary of the 30-40 wpm
speeds that are typical of NSL, Mike, W9RE, sponsors the Slow NS (SNS)
starting at 0200Z, same bands and format but with code speed of 18-25
wpm. For the really compulsive, the NS Ladder is also a great way to
polish SO2R skills. Sprint SO2R hints from N4OGW and N3BB will appear
on the web site shortly. Detailed rules for NSL are at
www.ncccprint.com ; questions including requests to join the contest?s
reflector nccc-blue, to Bill N6ZFO, Contest Director, n6zfo at arrl.net,
or to any NSL Advisory group member . . K6UFO, K4BAI, N4AF, N3BB, W9RE,
or W4NZ.
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