[CQ-Contest] QST -- half hour NS RTTY contest this Thursday evening local time in North America

[Ed Radlo]

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To all RTTY ops: 

Please join us in this week's half hour NS RTTY(North American Sprint contest, RTTY mode, sponsored by the Northern CaliforniaContest Club), Thursday evening local time (Friday 0145Z).  

Last week featured many ops who usedour Thursday night event to practice for last Saturday’s highly successful NAQPRTTY.  Thanks for all of you who joinedus, and we hope to see you on a regular basis! 

I did notice that a couple of these ops didn’t adhere to the special QSY rule that is a feature in all Sprints,including ours.  The next paragraph is astatement of the Sprint QSY rule, tailored to reflect the fact that our contest uses a1KHz version of the rule, as opposed to the 5 KHz version that is used in the four-hour NCJ CW and RTTY Sprints: 

If any station(“X”) solicits a contact (e.g., by sending “CQ,” “QRZ?”, “QSY up 1”, or anyother means of soliciting a contact, including completion of a contact where thefrequency was inherited by X), X is permitted to make only one contact inresponse to that solicitation.  X mustthereafter move at least 1 KHz before calling another station, or at least 1kHz before soliciting another contact.  OnceX is required to QSY, X is not allowed to make another contact on the frequencythat X just vacated until or X makes at least one subsequent contact on a frequencyother than the frequency that X just vacated. 

If anyone has a question about this QSY rule,please send me an e-mail, and I’ll answer you promptly. 

A few entrants last week did not submit theirscores to www.3830scores.com at the end of the contest.  It’s easy – justsubmit your score to this Website for the contest “NCCC RTTY Sprint”.  Reporting your score, whether it be big orsmall, helps build enthusiasm for this event. That in turn increasesparticipation for future editions, which benefits all of us.

 For those of you using the popular N1MM+ logger,the contest module to use is NSRTTYDUPE.  If you need a proven set offunction keys, let me know, and I’ll be happy to share mine with you. 



Remember to try 15 meters at the beginning ofthis Thursday night's contest – 15 has often been open at 0145Z lately.  



The details of the next NS RTTY: 



Friday,  22 July 2022 UTC, 0145Z to 0215Z(Thursday, 21 July 2022 in North America)
-- 1845 to 1915 PDT
-- 2145 to 2215 EDT
-- (others in between those two time intervals)

-- 160 meters:  Try 1804, 1805, or 1806 during the last two minutes-- 80/40/20/15 meters:  mostly +83 kHz to +89 kHz up from thelower band edge-- Same band dupes are allowed for credit after one interveningQSO-- 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 otherinfo. If you find any problems with the Web pages, please let me know so we canget them fixed. 



If you would like to receive all the latestinfo 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 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 few depending upon who else is on) forcomments and questions. 



73,

EdRadlo  AJ6V