[CQ-Contest] NS RTTY this Thursday, 11 Nov in NA DON'T FORGET THE TIME CHANGE!

[Ken K6MR]

Greetings Diddlers,

Back into double digit turnout last week.  Welcome to first timer K0VW (neat call!), as well as AK2S and W4BBT who were back for more sprint fun.



And yes, it’s that time again for most of us to adjust ourselves to that silly biannual government imposed ritual of messing with time.  So even though the UTC times have not changed, those of you (and me) who are subjected to this craziness must adjust our day.  Put a yellow sticky on the monitor, set an alarm, whatever you need to do to remember to show up an hour earlier local time.  Except of course you lucky folks who are in states that have sane management.  Anyway, don’t forget.  If no one is around when you start CQing, you are too late!



The upcoming weekend has a biggie of the RTTY world:  WAE DX RTTY!  This one gives everyone a chance to play and makes QTCs a bit more fun. So warm up the diddle machine and join us Thursday evening to make sure everything is up to snuff for the weekend.



The details of our little get together:



Friday,  12 Nov 2021, 0145Z - 0215Z (Thursday, 11 Nov 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/Sunday (in NA) for you hopelessly addicted Sprinters.

Diddle diddle,

Ken K6MR