[CQ-Contest] NS RTTY contest this Thursday evening local time -- will we have a shootout like last week?

[Ed Radlo]

To all RTTY ops:

 Don’t forget to participate in this week's half hour NS RTTY (NCCC Sprint contest, RTTY mode) this Thursday evening localtime (Friday 0145Z).  It’s a halfhour of action packed RTTY fun.
Last week's version of this contest featured a shootout between two top ops:  W0YK operating remotely from K6MTU, and WD6T operating from N6RO.  Each had 16 mults.  The lead kept seesawing throughout the 30 minutes.  When all was said and done, W0YK had 50 contacts, and WD6T had 49!  It doesn't get any closer than that!  50 contacts in a half hour, folks -- that a rate of 100/hour!  How many RTTY contests do you know of where the rate is 100/hour?  It helped that both of these ops were using the new 2BSIQ technique, something that only a few have been able to master.
Everyone else who operated last week also had a ton of fun.  Just ask someone who has ever been in this weekly contest, and they will agree. 

 For those of you usingthe N1MM+ logger, the contest module to use is NSRTTYDUPE.  If you need a good set of function keys, letme know and I’ll be happy to share mine with you. Remember to try 15meters at the beginning of this Thursday night's contest -- it's been open at0145Z!

 Also, please submit your score to 3830 online at the end of the contest. Reporting your score, whether it be modest or awesome, helps buildenthusiasm for this contest.

 

The details of the next NS RTTY:

 

Friday,  29 April 2022, 0145Zto 0215Z (Thursday, 28 April 2022 in North America)
-- 1845 to 1915 PDT
-- 2145 to 2215 EDT
-- (others in-between those two time intervals)
-- 160 meters:  Try 1804, 1805, or1806 during the last two minutes

-- 80/40/20/15 meters:  +83 to +89 kHz up from the lower band edge
-- Same band dupes are allowed for credit after one intervening QSO
-- 1 kHz QSY rule, otherwise standard NCJ Sprint QSY rules
-- Multipliers are counted anew on each band, so if 4 bands are open, you’llget a lot of mults!
-- 100W output power limit

Please visit https://www.ncccsprint.com/rttyns.html for complete rules and links to other info. If you find anyproblems with the Web pages, please let me know so we can get them fixed.

 If you would like to receive allthe latest info about NS (both CW and RTTY), as well as a have a vehicle for expressingyour comments and questions, sign up for the NS mailing list:  https://groups.io/g/nccc-blue. Contestonlinescore.com hasa slot set up for us if you’d like to make sure your logger is talking to theworld.  Select “NCCC NA RTTY Sprint”.

 

Report scores to 3830scores.com, and join us at 0300Z on 3610 kHz (+/- a few depending upon whoelse is on) for comments and questions.

 Don’t forget to check out RTTYopsWeekday and Weekend Sprints.  Tuesday/Thursday/Sunday (in NA) for youhopelessly addicted diddlers. 

 

73,

Ed Radlo  AJ6V