[CQ-Contest] NS RTTY this Thursday

[Ken K6MR]

Greetings Diddlers:

A core group was present last week.  Welcome to W5XB, who worked at least N3QE but I didn’t see a 3830 score.  Welcome Grant!  And to KG5U:  Hang in there Dale!  Things will start working.  We all hope.

Private note to the regulars:  I’m still fighting with the electric utility.  My noise is worse now that the weather has warmed up.  Still hoping for a fix very soon.  I’ll be back!

This weekend has a few QSO parties, but I suppose the headline contest is the very first WW Digi DX contest.  FT8/FT4 for a full 24 hours.  Should be an interesting time.

If you’d like to do some old style digital operating, please join us.  Here are the details for our usual Thursday evening (in NA)  get together.

Friday,  30 Aug 2019, 0145Z - 0215Z (Thursday, 29 Aug 2019 in NA)
-- 1845 - 1915 PDT
-- 2145 - 2215 EDT
-- (others in-between those two)
-- 160: 1805 and up (Last two minutes seem to be popular…)
-- 80/40/20/15 +84 kHz up from the band edge   <--NOTE
-- 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.

If you would like to receive all the latest info about NS as well as a have a place for comments and questions, sign up for the NS mailing list:  https://groups.io/g/nccc-blue

Contestonlinescore.com has a slot set up for us if you’d like to make sure your logger is talking to the world.  Select NCCC NA RTTY Sprint.

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