[CQ-Contest] NS RTTY this Thursday

[Ken K6MR]

Greetings Diddlers:

Excellent turnout last week with 14 stations reporting.  A big NS welcome to NN5O and VY0ERC (VE3KTB in disguise) who jumped right in like seasoned veterans.  And NS CW veteran N8EA was back after a several year absence.  Welcome all and I hope we can keep you engaged in future events.

With the new stations getting into the Sprint family, I get questions about “Why is everyone using different exchanges at different times?”.  The exchange sequences are perhaps the weirdest part of Sprinting, but there is a method to the madness.  Ken, N6RO wrote an excellent explanation of the exchange sequences and how the proper exchanges really improve QSO flow in “Secrets of RTTY Sprinting”.  The article is available on the rttycontesting.com site, and is a great reference for old timers and new stations alike.

Give it a look and see if it improves your enjoyment of the Sprint experience:  https://www.rttycontesting.com/lagniappe/secrets-of-rtty-sprinting/

The upcoming weekend looks to be all SSB all of the time, so please join us Thursday evening for a bit of keyboard fun.  And with the longer days don’t forget to check 20m at the start. Things are starting to come alive!

Here are the details for our usual Thursday evening (in NA)  get together.

Friday,  29 Mar 2019, 0145Z - 0215Z (Thursday, 28 Mar 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 +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

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