[CQ-Contest] QST -- NS RTTY operating event 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 regulars, plus some opswhom we haven’t seen in awhile – N0TA, AI6O, W6IA, and N0KQ.  Plus NK4O joined us for a second time.  Welcome back, everyone!

 

One participant noted that last week there weretimes when several stations were calling out of turn on the samefrequency.  This is due in part to thephenomenon that when the high bands are open as they have been, it’s more possiblefor two stations to be transmitting on the same frequency without knowing thatthe other station is there.  There are acouple of ways we can sidestep this. One, spread out more – if there is a jumbled mess on a frequency, QSYand call CQ, for example.  Two, don’tcall someone unless you print their callsign being sent at the end of anexchange.  This works most (but not all)of the time, because of the way the popular contest loggers differentiatebetween the first and second exchanges in a sprint couplet.  If you don’t know what I mean by this, sendme an e-mail, and I’ll explain further.

 

 

Again, a few entrants last week did not submittheir scores to www.3830scores.com at the end of the contest.  It’s easy –just submit 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,  1 July 2022 UTC, 0145Z to 0215Z(Thursday, 30 June 2022 in North America)
-- 1845 to 1915 PDT
-- 2145 to 2215 EDT
-- (others in-between those two time slots)
-- 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