[CQ-Contest] RTTY NCCC Sprint on Thursday (in NA), DUPES OK!

[Ken Keeler]

The  30 minute RTTY sprint practice continues on Thursdays, one hour 
before the CW NS Ladder which starts on April 12:

Next NS-RY:  0130 to 0200Z, April 12;  Thursday night in NA, 630 PM 
PDST, etc.  Note that we are now all on DST.
To pump up the activity, DUPEs are OK, after one intervening QSO on any band.
Last week,  most of the gang liked the resulting increased rate!
When we get to about 15 participants, we can drop the DUPES OK.

These 30 minute practices are  for experienced sprinters on cw to 
learn a new mode,
and for RTTY contesters to learn the sprint format.  Also a chance
to try out the newly popular 2Tone decoder.

There are two main differences between the NCCC Sprints and NA Sprint:
In NS, power is usually limited to 100w, and mults count on all bands.
For this upcoming practice, use 80, 40, 20m;  up 80+ Khz. from the 
bottom of the band.
Sometime in May, we'll add 15m.  I'll monitor the band to see when 
the summer opening starts.

You need two different messages in sprint, one when acquiring a 
frequency:  N6TR  245 KEN CA N6RO;
in a different order when vacating the freq.:  N8EA N6RO 246 KEN CA.
This let's others know who is acquiring the freq.

NS rules at: http://www.ncccsprint.com/rules.html
These apply for the RTTY practice sprints.

Thanks to WA7BNM for providing the 3830 score reporting each week.

If you want the Sprint RTTY practices to continue, vote by showing up 
each Thursday.

Thursday Night Diddler, N6RO