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[SECC] Announcement: SNS Practice Tonight

Subject: [SECC] Announcement: SNS Practice Tonight
From: k4bai at att.net (John T. Laney III)
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 09:01:20 -0400
****Announcing the NCCC's (Northern California Contest Club) weekly 
Thursday night running of the SNS , The cw sprint for the rest of us! ****
Check the SNS website out at
http://www.ncccsprint.com/sns.html

Please wait just a split second on jump balls ("ns" talk for several 
stations answering a CQ).  Please be aware of the fact that there are 
stations just getting acclimated to sprinting, and can be easily 
intimidated so keep a sharp friendly ear, and maybe let a station 
inheriting a frequency throw out a cq prior to calling them.

Please keep your speed to between 18 to 26  WPM.  Stations running on 
the higher side of this please be willing to QRS for some of the slower 
operators.  Remember we are trying to welcome new sprinters to our ranks!

As usual We will be preceding NSL  XII (A fantastic warm up for all, see 
notes fromN6ZFO), with a 10 minute break prior. So for now, the Slow 
Speed NS is from 0200z to 0220z 15 Sept 2011 lets keep it strict  and 
the timing prescision, since the ladder competition is going on.
Frequencies:
20 m      14037-14043
40 m      7040-7047
80 m      3537-3543
  its a bit early for 160, so lets not go there for now.

POWER: 100 watt limit.

If you don't hear a CQ, send a CQ and don't worry about the couplet 
since this is only practice and hopefully an introduction to sprints for 
newbies.  I think stations might answer a CQ more likely than call CQ 
themselves.  With that said remember that newbies are listening to get 
up the nerve to jump in so don't hesitate to make Q's.

The SNS, NS and NS Ladder and the NCCC/NS Net on 3610 immediately 
following at 0300 are all part of the "Thursday night contesting" 
experience sponsored by the Northern California Contest Club!

Sites to help everyone for sprint contests.

NS home website is:
http://www.ncccsprint.com/
http://www.contesting.com/articles/198
http://n6tr.jzap.com/sprint.html

Need help with your logging software, macros, etc.? Feel free to drop me 
an email and we will do our best to assist!

73 es GL  and above all, enjoy and have fun!
more exciting changes to come in the near future!  We are working on it 
so stay tuned!

Chris
N6WM
Contest Director, SNS
President, NCCC



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