[CQ-Contest] [NCCC-blue] [RTTY] NS RTTY this Thursday (with time warning #3)

[Shoppa, Tim]

>From 1960-1975 or so QST announced and showed results for the "World-Wide RTTY Sweepstakes".

I think for at least some of the years the "RTTY Sweepstakes" was actually sponsored by CARTG, the Canadian RTTY group, although rules and results were published in QST.

In the early years it was kinda like CQ WW RTTY is today. It allowed US-US and US-DX and DX-DX contacts with both states and countries as mults, and work once per band not once per contest.

Near the end they used a "zone chart" to attempt to compute scores based on distance. I reproduce the 1974 zone chart and rules here:  http://n3qe.org/rttyss1974.png

The distance-based points they used in the zone chart kinda reminds me of current Makrothen.

Tim N3QE

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From: nccc-blue-bounces at kkn.net [mailto:nccc-blue-bounces at kkn.net] On Behalf Of John Barber
Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2017 5:01 AM
To: 'Ken K6MR' <k6mr at outlook.com>; 'NS' <nccc-blue at kkn.net>; cq-contest at contesting.com; rtty at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [NCCC-blue] [RTTY] NS RTTY this Thursday (with time warning #3)

I am sure there was a RTTY Sweepstakes in the early days 1960s/1970s? I could look it up but someone here will probably remember.
John GW4SKA

-----Original Message-----
From: RTTY [mailto:rtty-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Ken K6MR
Sent: 08 November 2017 01:25
To: NS <nccc-blue at kkn.net>; cq-contest at contesting.com; rtty at contesting.com
Subject: [RTTY] NS RTTY this Thursday (with time warning #3)

Greetings Diddlers:

Hope everyone had a great time in the SS.  I've always wondered what an RTTY Sweepstakes would be like.hmmm.

OK, for those of you not in Arizona or KH6, don't forget that NS starts one hour earlier local time.  So if you start calling cq and wonder where everyone is, they have been there and done that earlier.

Most all of our regulars were active last week, with W9BGX (WA9LKZ) our newest regular participant.  Activity does seem to be migrating to lower bands so don't give up if 20 sounds dead at the beginning.
Here are the details for our usual Thursday evening session (with the new time slots duly noted):
Friday,  10 Nov 2017, 0145Z - 0215Z (Thursday, 9 Nov 2017 in NA)
-- 1745 - 1815 PST
-- 2045 - 2115 EST
-- (others in-between those two)
-- 160: 1805 and up
-- 80/40/20/15/10 +80kHz up from the band edge
-- Same band dupes ok after 1 intervening Q.
-- 1 kHz QSY rule, otherwise standard Sprint rules
-- Mults per band
-- 100W power limit
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For something new (and exciting?), give the live scoreboard a try at
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Don't forget to report your score 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



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