[CQ-Contest] NS RTTY this Thursday, 10 Mar in NA

[Ken K6MR]

Greetings Diddlers:

Some good scores last week.  Welcome to relatively new stations K0TG and WW3S, who are really getting the hang of things.  And welcome back to W0YK, who seems to have had some equipment problems with the remote.  I'm sure he'll get it going for next week (and the weekend we'd bet).

The upcoming weekend has the contest which we all practice for:  NA Sprint RTTY!  For those of you who may not have done a Real Sprint recently, remember that the new times are one hour earlier:  2300Z to 0300Z.  So put a yellow sticky on the monitor.  If you want to get some additional diddling before the Sprint, there is also the YB DX RTTY Test, starting Friday evening and running for 24 hours.  So it does overlap a bit with the Sprint.  But that does give you a little more time to make sure everything is ready for the Big One.


So if you are not sure you are ready to go for either one, please join us Thursday evening and make sure things are in tip top shape.  Last chance to practice with your Sprint macros before the Real Thing!



The details of our little get together:



Friday,  11 Mar 2022, 0145Z - 0215Z (Thursday, 10 Mar 2022 in NA)
-- 1745 - 1815 PST
-- 2045 - 2115 EST
-- (others in-between those two)
-- 160: Try 1804, 1805, 1806  (Last two to five minutes seem to be popular…)
-- 80/40/20/15 +84 kHz up from the band edge
-- Same band dupes ok after 1 intervening Q.
-- 1 kHz QSY rule, otherwise standard Sprint rules
-- Mults per band.
-- 100W power limit

Please visit https://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