[CQ-Contest] Please join us for NAQP RTTY on Saturday July 18

[K6UFO Mark Aaker]

 The North American QSO Party on RTTY will be Saturday July 18. 
The friendly exchange is a Name and State (or Province or Country). 
Five bands, 10m to 80m, RTTY, Maximum of 100 watts.
QSOs and Multipliers count again each band! 

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 afternoon 2PM to Sunday 2AM. 
  Pacific-time that's Saturday morning 11AM to 11PM. 

Any group of friends 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 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 PDT, for 30 minutes. 
See: <http://ncccsprint.com/rttyns.html> http://ncccsprint.com/rttyns.html 

Friday night is for NAQP RTTY Practice. 
Saturday 0200 UTC, Friday 10PM EST, 7PM PST, 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 MHz
21.080 - 21.100 MHz
14.080 - 14.150 please avoid the IARU Beacon at 14.100 MHz
7.080 - 7.125, and "go low" 7.025 - 7.080 please avoid CW QSOs and FT8 at 7.074 MHz
3.580 - 3.600, and "go low" 3.525 - 3.600 please avoid CW QSOs and FT8 at 3.573 MHz

I welcome any photos and stories of your operation, they make the results more interesting. 

See you on RTTY, Saturday Saturday July 18! 

Mark Aaker K6UFO 
NAQP RTTY Contest Manager 
k6ufo at arrl dot net