[CQ-Contest] NS RTTY this Thursday

[Ken K6MR]

Greetings Diddlers:

A good double digit group last week. Looks like we are into full summer conditions, with 15 providing some activity but 80 and 160 pretty poor. Even the CW NS folks are getting  more rare on 160 every week.

The upcoming weekend is (obviously) reserved for those of you hearty enough to take on the outdoors as well as the marginal conditions.  For those of you (us/me) in the west, it’s going to brutal (weather wise).  112 F at my place today, so I’m staying inside. Good luck to all who wish to visit the great outdoors.  I’ll be sure to work you (sipping a cool one under the air conditioner…).

Meanwhile, if you’ve got a digital field day setup you need to test (or just want to do some Sprinting), please join us on Thursday evening and exercise those diddles.  We always are eager to invite newcomers: just jump in and send s/n, name and state. Listen for a bit and you’ll get a idea of the “qsy rule”, which makes life interesting.

A special note from our NS CW brethren: For those of you who have always wanted to try CW Sprinting (but were intimidated by the speeds), this week’s Thursday CW NS is a 20 WPM evening. So here’s your chance to jump in and experience the Sprint Magic on that ‘other mode’. NS CW starts 15 minutes after the RTTY session ends (so 0230Z), and congregates around .040 on each band (160 at .015).  Since you’ve already got things warmed up, just push the mode button and give it a try!

Here are the details for our usual Thursday evening session:
Friday,  23 June 2017, 0145Z - 0215Z (Thursday, 22 June 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