[CQ-Contest] Final NS Ladder #18

[Bill Haddon - n6zfo]

Regarding NS /NS Ladder, K0XP wrote:

> Do like a regular Sprint would require: shift a FULL KILOHURTZ, not merely
> a few hundred hurtz.

As in the NCJ Sprints, the NS QSY rule is a minimum of 1 KHz in all cases.  (but there is no 5KHz rule in NS).

Reminder of the NS (and NS LAdder) rules:

"NCJ NA CW Sprint rules  with the following modifications:

    * The same station can be worked multiple times provided 1 contact separates the contact in both logs on the same band.  Back-to-back contacts on different bands are OK.
    * NAQP Multipliers count once per band, as in NAQP (Note: KH6 is a multiplier)
    * The 5kHz QSY rule reduced to 1kHz
    * 160 meter QSOs permitted, as in NAQP
    * 100 watts or less power, as in NAQP
    * 30-minute contest period
    * Scoring is total QSOs times sum of multipliers on each band, as in NAQP"

Reemphasizing the important point . . don't start early or end late.  

73 Bill n6zfo/6
Director NS Ladder


 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Steve Harrison <k0xp at dandy.net>
> At 12:17 PM 7/23/2007 -0700, you wrote:
> >Based upon the comments of others in several 3830 posts and personal
> discussions with some fellow NS'ers, I don't understand why the following
> is such a difficult concept (which if practiced, could bring more NS
> Contesting Joy to all):
> >With the multitude of stations we now have participating in the NS, try
> turning your VFO dials from x.040 down to x.035Khz and up to x.045Khz and
> all Khz in-between for a change in this Final NS Ladder #18.  Please help
> eliminate a lot of unnecessary mutli-station dead zero-beat pileup QRM near
> x.040 that unnecessarily wastes time.
> >
> >In other words:
> >
> >S-P--R---E----A-----D ... O-----U-------T
> >
> >S-P--R---E----A-----D ... O-----U-------T
> >
> >S-P--R---E----A-----D ... O-----U-------T
> 
> One other comment:
> 
> If you wind up missing a Q after calling someone, and you QSY to CQ for
> yourself, PLEASE QSY ENOUGH as to not be only a few hundred HURTZ from the
> QSO that you just missed!!  ;o/  ;o/  ;o/  I had two guys do this to me
> last week when I wound up responding to someone else: they shifted what, to
> them, may have been "far enough" in that they no longer heard ME: but they
> wound up being within both MY passband, and at least once in the passband
> of the other guy I was working, and created QRM to copy through.
> 
> Do like a regular Sprint would require: shift a FULL KILOHURTZ, not merely
> a few hundred hurtz.
> 
> >*** END OF NS LADDER SOAPBOX ***
> >
> >Tnx very much & 73...
> 
> Steve, K0XP
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