[CQ-Contest] NS RTTY contest this Thursday evening local time -- learn about propagation changes

[Ed Radlo]

To all RTTY ops:

 

Don’t forget to participate in this week's halfhour NS RTTY (Northern California Contest Club Sprint contest, RTTY mode) this Thursday evening local time(Friday 0145Z).  It’s a half hour of action packed RTTY fun and adventure.

 Last week, we had a good group of mostlyregulars in this contest.  Those whoparticipate every week get a very good sense of how HF propagation progressesfrom week to week, band by band – a real life science education!

 

For those of you using the N1MM+ logger, thecontest module to use is NSRTTYDUPE.  If you need a good set of functionkeys, 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 -- it's been open at 0145Z!

 

Also, please submit your score to www.3830scores.comat the end of the contest.  Reporting your score, whether it be modest orawesome, helps build enthusiasm for this contest.

 

The details of this next NS RTTY:

 

Friday UTC,  6 May 2022, 0145Z to 0215Z(Thursday, 5 May 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 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 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 www.3830scores.com,and join us at 0300Z on 3610 kHz (+/- a few depending upon who else is on) forcomments and questions.

 

 

73,

EdRadlo  AJ6V