[CQ-Contest] NS RTTY this Thursday

[Ken K6MR]

Greetings Diddlers:

A nice double digit turnout last week.  Welcome  to admitted first timer KT5MR.  Somehow he thought it would be difficult! Nope, we make it easy.  Also welcome to KA1ULN in the QRP category.  He noted conditions were not the best, which I can certainly vouch for.  K6TD keeps showing up so I think we’ve found another Sprint fanatic.  And the K7SV/N3QE battle continues, with K7SV pulling out a big victory last week.

The upcoming weekend has the SARTG WW RTTY test.  This is one of those tests with 3 separate 8 hour periods, so you can pick one and then take a nap and do it all again!  There is also the SARL RTTY test, as well as the RTTYOps Weekend Sprint.  There’s also a contest on Saturday (in NA) that requires something called a Microphone.  NAQP SSB test to be precise.  If you can find one of those strange contraptions around the shack you might even give that a go.  So plenty to keep you busy.

The details for our little get together this week to keep your diddles in tune:

Friday,  14 Aug 2020, 0145Z - 0215Z (Thursday, 13 Aug 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.

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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).

Don’t forget to check out RTTYops Weekday and Weekend Sprints.  Tuesday/Thursday/Saturday (in NA) for you hopelessly addicted Sprinters.

Diddle diddle,

Ken K6MR