[CQ-Contest] NS RTTY this Thursday

[Ken K6MR]

Yes, yes, late again.  Time slips away.  Thanks to everyone that was in the NCJ RTTY Sprint last weekend.  Remember that the next one is in 6 months or so, and you’ve got plenty of time to invite your friends!  You can tell them to drop by on Thursday evenings to get a little practice also!

We had a good double digit group last Thursday, with NCCC members WD6T and KA6BIM dropping by for a little tune up.  Also mystery station W6M also popped in, but everyone knew it was JIM KS (AC0E).  Just doing this from memory but I think I worked everyone from last week (as well as many other regulars) in the Real Sprint so thanks again to everyone for helping make it a great evening.

Since we all like RTTY we all know we’ve got a full weekend coming up. CQWW RTTY will keep the diddles going all weekend.  In case you didn’t see the mail messages, there are two practice sessions sanctioned by the CQWW committee, both before and after our little get together:



Thursday, 24 September, 2000-2100z (Thursday evening, EU time)

Friday, 25 September, 0300-0400z (Thursday evening, NA time)


Hope to see everyone printing over the weekend.

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

Friday,  18 Sept 2020, 0145Z - 0215Z (Thursday, 17 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