[CQ-Contest] NS Ladder Wk 6 of 8

[Bill Haddon]

Thursday night [tonight]. . . NCCC Sprint Ladder XVI  - Wk 6 of 8.

NS Ladder moves into it's final phase this week, in which only the highest
five scores are counted towards awards. So a chance to cancel any undesired
low scores.   An amazing 20 dedicated participants have shown up for all of
the previous 5 weeks; a perfect 8 gets you an extra entry in the selection
table for W0YK wine at the end.

At the upcoming Contest Academy at Visalia in April  some notable benefits
of participating in NS and NS Ladder will be described by Tom, ND2T,
including some very specific quantitative numbers.

NS Ladder:  Friday, 0230-0300Z; Thur at: 1830 PST; 1930 MST; 2030 CST; 2130
EST

- 20, 40, 80, 160 meters, 40 KHz up from band edge or 1812-1817 kHz.
- 100 watts maximum
- Sprint format -- exchange:  #; Name; St. Prov or Country
- mults per band  (i.e. NAQP-like)

Report scores at  http://www.hornucopia.com/3830score/
<http://www.hornucopia.com/3830score/>(Tks, WA7BNM)

Rules: http://www.ncccsprint.com/ladder.html
Schedule: http://www.ncccsprint.com/next_ns.html
Results: http://www.ncccsprint.com/scores.html
                    (NQ6N software automatically and rapidly updates the
score table based on 3830 reports)

<http://www.ncccsprint.com/next_ns.html>Important rules:
1) Strictly observe the time limits . . see
http://www.ncccsprint.com/rules.html paragraph "Time".
2) After 2nd Q of couplet, please leave a pause for the cq'ing station to
ask for fills.
3) QSY Rule. . After a CQ, we encourage stations to QSY more than the 1KHz
minimum required by the rules so as to avoid bunching around the center
frequencies.     thus a "1,2" QSY guideline, as opposed to the "1,5" rule
in the NAS.
4) Five weeks  of significant participation makes you eligible for W0YK
wine drawing (KE3X, Awards Manager)

N1MM message set from W6SX: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7933320/ns
/f-key%20files/ns.mc
See also: http://www.ncccsprint.com/software.html

 <http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7933320/ns/f-key%20files/ns.mc>nccc-blue
reflector: All are invited to join this low-volume
reflector for discussing NS and NS Ladder topics. Sign up at:
http://www.kkn.net/mailman/listinfo/nccc-blue  (tks,  Phil, W6PK).

73,    Bill N6ZFO