[CQ-Contest] NS RTTY this Thursday

[Ken K6MR]

Greetings Diddlers:

A small group last week but good numbers.  Welcome back to K8JT who has been gone for a bit.  This is, of course, our first NS of the New Year (Dilbert’s objections not withstanding) so welcome to everyone who has joined us this last year and hope to see everyone printing on this trip around ol’ Sol.  Now if Mr. Sol would provide us some solar flux I’m sure we’d all be a bit merrier.

The upcoming weekend is RTTY Roundup.  Hopefully it’s not the first you’ve heard of it.  Go everything working?  Diddling with the best of them?  Great.  Join us Thursday evening and give it a go.  If you are not sure everything works, it’s even more important to join us!  Test out the diddle machine and have time to fix whatever.

And don’t forget the two RU practice sessions Friday afternoon/evening.  2200Z and 0200Z.  FTx sessions follow the RTTY sessions if you are so inclined.

The details for our little get together this week:

Friday,  3 Jan 2020, 0145Z - 0215Z (Thursday, 2 Jan 2020  in NA)
-- 1745 - 1815 PST
-- 2045 - 2115 EST
-- (others in-between those two)
-- 160: Around 1805  (Last two to five 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