[CQ-Contest] QST - the half hour NS (NCCC Sprint) RTTY contest is this Thursday evening in North America

[Ed Radlo]

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To all RTTY ops:  

This is a reminder thatonce again, the Northern California Contest Club is pleased to present ourregular weekly half hour RTTY Sprint, aka the NS RTTY, this Thursday eveningNorth America time.  Stations from other continents are also welcome to join us.

We had a sparse crowdlast week.  Let’s see if we can do betterthis week. Not everyone reported their score to 3830 last week.  After the contest, please remember to submityour score to www.3830scores.com.  It’s easy – on 3830, the name of thiscontest is “NCCC RTTY Sprint”.  Reporting your score, whether it bebig or small, helps build enthusiasm for this event. That in turn increasesparticipation for future editions, which benefits all of us. 

For those of you who arenew to our weekly NS RTTY’s, we use a variation of the NCJ’s Sprint QSY rule –1 KHz QSY’s rather than 5 KHz – and allow duplicate contacts after oneintervening contact.  If you need a full explanation of these specialrules, send me an e-mail, and I’ll give you all the details, e.g., a precisedefinition of our QSY rule. 

Remember to QSY afteryou’ve made a contact that you‘ve solicited, and also remember to give bothcallsigns as part of the exchange.

For those of you usingthe popular N1MM+ logger, the contest module to use is NSRTTYDUPE.  A goodset of sample function keys is in the N1MM+ website's function key gallery,and available for free download. 

Remember to try 15meters at the beginning of this Thursday night's contest – 15 has usually beenopen at 0145Z lately, at least for some locations.

The details of ournext NS RTTY: 

Friday,  16December 2022 UTC, 0145Z to 0215Z (Thursday, 15 December 2022 in North America)

--1745 to 1815 PST

--2045 to 2115 EST

-- (others in betweenthose two time intervals)

-- 160 meters: Try 1804, 1805, or 1806 during the last two minutes

-- 80/40/20/15meters:  mostly +83 kHz to +89 kHz up from the lower band edge

-- Same banddupes are allowed for credit after one intervening QSO

-- 1 kHz QSYrule, otherwise standard NCJ Sprint QSY rules

-- Multipliers arecounted anew on each band, so if 4 bands are open, you’ll get a lot of mults!

-- 100W output powerlimit

Please visit https://www.ncccsprint.com/rttyns.html for complete rules and links to otherinfo. If you find any problems with the Web pages, please let me know so we canget them fixed. 

If you would like toreceive all the latest info about NS (both CW and RTTY), as well as a have avehicle for expressing your comments and questions, sign up for the NS mailinglist:  https://groups.io/g/nccc-blue. 

Contestonlinescore.com has a slot set up for us if you’d like to make sure yourlogger is talking to the world.  Select “NCCC NA RTTY Sprint”. 

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

73, 

EdRadlo  AJ6V

 

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