[CQ-Contest] Please join us for NAQP RTTY on Saturday July 20
K6UFO Mark Aaker
k6ufo at arrl.net
Sun Jul 14 11:23:03 EDT 2019
The North American QSO Party on RTTY will be Saturday July 20, 2019. The friendly exchange is a Name and State (or Province or Country). Five bands, 10m to 80m. QSOs and Multipliers count again on each band! RTTY mode only. (WSJT-X software does not support our contest exchange.)
Rules, records, and past results at the National Contest Journal website: <http://ncjweb.com/> http://ncjweb.com/ Party-time is Saturday 1800 UTC to Sunday 0600 UTC. Eastern-time that's Saturday from 2PM to Sunday 2AM. Pacific-time that's Saturday from 11AM to 11PM.
Any group can form a Team of two to five single-operators. Register your Team before the contest at the "Team Registration" link: <http://ncjweb.com/rttynaqpteamreg/> http://ncjweb.com/rttynaqpteamreg/
RTTY Practice is available on Thursday and Friday nights:
Thursday night July 18th is the regular Thursday night RTTY NS Sprint.This follows the North American Sprint exchanges and rules. Friday 0145 UTC, Thursday 9:45PM EST, 6:45PM PST, for 30 minutes. See: <http://ncccsprint.com/rttyns.html> http://ncccsprint.com/rttyns.html
Friday night July 19th is some NAQP RTTY Practice. Saturday 0200 UTC, Friday 10PM EDT, 7PM PDT, for 30 minutes. Call "CQ NA" and practice your NAQP exchanges and logging. Frequencies: 14080, 7080, and 3580 kHz and up.
Then, NAQP RTTY starts Saturday morning, 1800 UTC.
Suggested RTTY Contest Frequencies: 28.080 - 28.100 kHz21.080 - 21.100 kHz14.080 - 14.150 please avoid the NCDXF Beacon at 14.100 kHz7.080 - 7.125 and "go low" 7.025 - 7.070, please avoid CW QSOs and FT8 at 7.074 kHz3.580 - 3.600 and "go low" 3.525 - 3.570, please avoid CW QSOs and FT8 at 3.573 kHz
I am also interested in any photos and stories of your operation, especially photos of a happy RTTY operator or group.
See you on RTTY, Saturday July 20!
Mark Aaker K6UFO NAQP RTTY Contest Manager k6ufo at arrl dot net
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