[CQ-Contest] NS RTTY this Thursday

[Ken K6MR]

Greetings Diddlers:

Well I’m not sure if it’s a record for recent NS RTTY sessions, but we had 15 stations reporting last week.  I know I worked at least one station who didn’t report, so that’s a great turnout.  Let’s keep it up!

I mentioned the new RTTYOps Sprints last week, and a couple of us have been trying to get things rolling.  A little slow at the moment, but these things take time  Bill, N0KQ, did some inquiries regarding N1MM logging setups, and there are now official N1MM logger UDC files available for both the weekday and weekend sessions.  So all you N1MM users can jump right in with all the logging ready to go.

The upcoming weekend has lots of things going on, but it looks like the ARI International DX and the 7QP are the only ones with a RTTY mode.  Of course there is the RTTYOps Sprint on Saturday morning (NA time), so fire up the station and check them all out.

Please join us Thursday evening and make sure all the diddles are ready to go.  And a reminder:  if you operated in the BARTG 75 Baud Sprint last Sunday, don’t forget to set everything back to 45.45 baud.  Don’t have a ‘DOH!’ moment.

The details for our little get together this week:

Friday,  1 May 2020, 0145Z - 0215Z (Thursday, 30 Apr  in NA)
-- 1845 - 1915 PDT
-- 2145 - 2215 EDT
-- (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