[CQ-Contest] NS RTTY this Thursday, 11 Feb 2021 in NA

[Ken K6MR]

Greetings Diddlers,



If I didn’t know any better, the turnout for our little get together last week would confirm the resurgence of RTTY!  Wow!  A full 15 stations reporting with a couple more I know were on but didn’t post.  A big welcome to Kent, KH6CJJ, who I’m sure needs to introduction to this group.  Kent was lurking on 20 meters and worked all he could before everyone moved to 40.  Hopefully 20 meters will come alive a bit more and we can keep Kent busy for a longer time.  Imagine if we get 15 meters back!  Welcome to all and let’s keep the group building and bring RTTY back to the glory days!



And speaking of big RTTY turnouts, the upcoming weekend is one of the biggies:  CQWW WPX RTTY.  A true contest where you have to do something more than catch a callsign.  Note that there will be two WPX practice sessions on Thursday before our get together:



2100-2130 UTC, Thursday, 11 February

0100-0130 UTC, Friday, 12 February (Thursday evening NA time)


So warm up everything a few hours earlier than usual and jump in.  For those of you who are going to make the practice sessions but are not normally around on Thursday evenings, stick around for a bit and jump into our little ditty.  We love to have new stations and especially some new and rare multipliers!  You might like it so much you’ll  be back every week.

The details for our little get together this week:

Friday,  12 Feb 2021, 0145Z - 0215Z (Thursday, 11 Feb 2021 in NA)
-- 1745 - 1815 PST
-- 2045 - 2115 EST
-- (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