[CQ-Contest] NS RTTY this Thursday

[Ken K6MR]

Greetings Diddlers:

Good turnout last week.  Relative newcomers NK4O and KA6BIM were in the mix, with our usual compliment of regulars.  A number of CQWW RTTY practice stations were around, and I think they had no idea what was going on.  I hope everyone had a great time over the weekend.

This weekend has the Russian WW Digital test, and of course the RTTYOps Weekend Sprint.  But seeing how the Northern California Contest Club (sponsor of our little ditty) is also the sponsor of the California QSO Party, I have to put a good word in for a CW/SSB contest.

The California QSO Party is Saturday and Sunday (alas no digital modes) but plenty of fun for everyone.  So maybe put the diddle machine on hold and find your keyer paddles and microphone.  Hey, once in a while can be fun!  Yours truly will be K6I along with a bunch of other single letter calls spelling SEQUOIA.  So please join us for a great weekend.  Details on the CQP website:   http://cqp.org    Hope to work many of you.

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

Friday,  2 Oct 2020, 0145Z - 0215Z (Thursday, 1 Oct 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