[CQ-Contest] NS RTTY this Thursday

[Ken K6MR]

Greetings Diddlers:

A good RTTY weekend coming up with the NAQP and the DMC RTTY tests for your enjoyment.

Some of you may have seen/heard of a new live score service that is up and running (contestonlinescore.com). VA2WA has offered to set up the NS RTTY on the site for our use each week, so I need some feedback. Online score tracking seems to be catching on, so what do you think?  Would we like to try this out? It’s a good chance to get used to using such a service and integrate it into your operating.  Let me know when you get a chance and I’ll follow up with Victor.

Meanwhile don’t forget that there will be extra NAQP practice sessions Thursday evening (0000 UTC) before the NS session, and also Friday evening. So plenty of chances to check things out before the weekend.

Here are the details for our usual Thursday evening session:
Friday,  14 July 2017, 0145Z - 0215Z (Thursday, 13 July 2017 in NA)
-- 1845 - 1915 PDT
-- 2145 - 2215 EDT
-- (others in-between those two)
-- 160: 1805 and up (Not sure this will be productive)
-- 80/40/20/15/10 +80kHz up from the band edge  (start checking those higher bands!)
-- Same band dupes ok after 1 intervening Q.
-- 1 kHz QSY rule, otherwise standard Sprint rules
-- Mults per band
-- 100W power limit

Please visit http://www.ncccsprint.com/rttyns.html for complete rules and links to other info. If you find any problems with the web pages, please let me know so we can get them fixed.
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Report scores to 3830scores.com, and join us at 0300Z on 3610 kHz (+/- a few for ongoing groups) for comments and questions (and dinner menus).

Diddle diddle,

Ken K6MR