[CQ-Contest] NS Ladder XVI . . Wk 2

[Bill Haddon]

Thursday night. . . NCCC Sprint Ladder XVI  - Wk 2 of 8.

Good warmup for NAQP and excellent practice for upcoming NAS CW
About 45 participants last week -- a vigorous half hour of high rate CW
contesting but with courtesy of slowing down for new players

Special  this week. . . look for K6VVA, the Locust,  as C6AVA (IOTA
NA-054)

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

- 160, 80, 40, 20 meters, 40 KHz up from band edge or 1812-1817 kHz.
- 100 watts maximum
- Sprint format
- mults per band

Report scores at  http://www.hornucopia.com/3830score/
<http://www.hornucopia.com/3830score/>(Tks, WA7BNM)
    -- Your comments on the 3830 forms are very helpful and informative and
are carefully read by many regulars.

Rules: http://www.ncccsprint.com/ladder.html
Schedule: http://www.ncccsprint.com/next_ns.html
Results: http://www.ncccsprint.com/scores.html
                    (tks NQ6N for automatic score table directly and
quickly calculated from 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.
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 N6ZF