[CQ-Contest] NS RTTY this Thursday

[Ken K6MR]

Greetings Diddlers:

We had the bare minimum double digit turnout, but plenty of activity.  Welcome to W9ILY and K7HPN, who have been here before I know and are giving it another go.  Welcome guys and hope you’ll make it a regular outing.  The N3QE/K7SV dance is still in progress, with N3QE pulling out a win last week.  And W0YK was not far behind.  We here on the west coast need less sunlight and more sunspots.

Lots of contest stuff happening this upcoming weekend, and the Russian RTTY WW Contest if one of them.  And there is the RTTYOps Weekend Sprint on Saturday here in NA, so a couple of ways to exercise your RTTY skills.

And, don’t forget that the REAL RTTY Sprint is only a few weeks away.  Participation has been drifting down over the last few years, so let’s see if we can reverse that trend.  If you have some RTTY capable friends that have never tried a Sprint, have them drop by on Thursday for a few weeks and then join the fun for a full four hours.  The more the merrier!

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

Friday,  4 Sept 2020, 0145Z - 0215Z (Thursday, 3 Sept 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).

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