[CQ-Contest] RTTY Sprint Fun Thursday
Hank Garretson
w6sx at arrl.net
Tue Aug 21 15:00:06 EDT 2018
Join us for a fun thirty minutes.
For those new to sprinting, here are some resources.
N6TR Sprint Survival Guide http://www.kkn.net/n6tr/sprint.html
CW Sprinting--Beginners Guide http://www.contesting.com/articles/198
N6TV Sprint Webinar http://www.nccc.cc/misc/nasprint020210_%20N6TV.wmv
The above have a CW emphasis, but they will give you a good feel for Sprint
basics. Sprinting is Sprinting.
Here are the details for our Thursday evening session:
Friday, 0145Z - 0215Z (Thursday, 2018 in NA)
-- 1845 - 1915 PDT
-- 2145 - 2215 EDT
-- (other time zones 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 or band change
-- 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.
If you would like to receive all the latest info about NS as well and have
a place for comments and questions, sign up for the NS mailing list:
https://groups.io/g/nccc-blue
<http://www.kkn.net/mailman/listinfo/nccc-blue>
For something fun, give the live scoreboard a try at
https://contestonlinescore.com . Set up your logger to report and select
the NCCC NA RTTY SPRINT on the web page to display the scores. The Help
menu pulldown will give you the info needed to setup the most common
logging programs.
*Please* report your score to 3830scores.com, and join us at 0300Z on 3610
kHz (+/- a few for ongoing groups) for comments and questions.
Contest Exuberantly,
Hank, W6SX
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