[CQ-Contest] NCCC Sprint Ladder V -- This Week

[Bill Haddon - n6zfo]

It's back  NS-Ladder V The exciting NCCC spring and summer madness contest.

The fist session of this year's 15-week competition begins this week, Thursday 
night March 6 in NA, Friday March 7, 0330-0400Z in the vicinity of 14040, 7040, 
3540 and 1815 KHz, CW of course.

New to NS Ladder, or just interested?  Read about this snappy and fun contest 
series at www.ncccsprint.com .  Follow  the Ladder link on the left of the page 
for more details.  

Again, there's a special Newcomers division for those who have not  participated 
in the last two NS Ladder sessions.  The three divisions, East of Ms. River, W. 
of Ms. River and NCCC member in CA/NV remain.

Returning Ladder competitors:

It's another exciting year for NS Ladder with essentially the same rules 
as last year, including the unique dupe rule and the NAQP-type multiplier 
structure.

The series runs 15 weeks. A stations highest 12 scores counted for awards. For a 
complete schedule see http://www.ncccsprint.com/next_ns.htm

Times:  This week is a special case: 0330-0400Z Friday.  Next week we switch permanently 
to 0230-0300Z, keeping the same local times after the switch to Daylight 
Savings.  So all contest events, including this week's, are at 1930-2000 Local 
Pacific Time, Thursday Night in NA, Friday UTC.

As before, score reporting is complete when you fill out the 3830 form at 
http://www.hornucopia.com/3830score/, if possible by Sunday night following a 
Thursday event. 

Questions? Contact N6ZFO directly by e-mail.

As the year goes by  I'll be posting comments on nsladder.blogspot.com .  You 
may want to read some of the dialog there to get a feel for the contest.  Also 
have a look at past dialog and  continuing information from the low power low 
profile contest site of KA3DRR/6:  http://ka3drr.blogspot.com/

A big thank you who have helped this year:  Our NS Ladder Board: K4BAI, N3BB, 
N4AF and W9RE. Ken, N6RO, who runs the NCCC Thursday night sessions through the 
year, and of couse Ed, W0YK who somehow finds time from his world renowned RTTY contesting activity to design and maintain our first-rate NCCC 
Sprint web page

Finally, a major reason for our NSL success is the excellent cooperation from 
Bruce, WA7BNM and Dink N7WA, who provides that important 1-2 punch of 3830 
reports and summaries to CQ-Contest. We are deeply grateful.

After a year of first rate service on the NS Ladder board, Paul, K3STX has moved 
on.  

73 Bill n6zfo
Contest Director
NCCC Sprint Ladder