[CQ-Contest] QST: prepare for this weekend's CQ WW RTTY by joining the half hour NS RTTY warmup this Thursday evening

[Ed Radlo]

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To all RTTY ops:

It’s time to prepare for the big 48 hour CQ WW RTTYcontest to be held this coming weekend. The best way to do that is to join us in this week's half hour NS RTTY (NorthAmerican Sprint contest, RTTY mode, sponsored by the Northern CaliforniaContest Club), this Thursday evening local time (Friday 0145Z).  

Many regulars participated in last Thursdaynight’s NS RTTY, plus we were pleased to see newcomers N4NTO and W1UJ.  Then last Saturday, we had the NCJ RTTYSprint (Big Sprint), which featured several NSers making the HP, LP, and QRPtop ten boxes:  K3MM won the HP division,and NN7SS came in first in QRP.  K9TI,whose first RTTY contacts ever were in our NS RTTY two weeks ago, made a commendable 76 LP contacts.  
For those of you who are new to our weekly NSRTTY’s, we use a variation of the NCJ’s Sprint QSY rule – 1 KHz QSY’s ratherthan 5 KHz – and allow duplicate contacts after one intervening contact.  If you need a full explanation of thesespecial rules, send me an e-mail, and I’ll give you all the details, e.g., aprecise definition of our QSY rule.
If a certain station from northern South America checks in this Thursday, you'll get a QSO point credit each time you work him.
For those of you using the popular N1MM+ logger,the contest module to use is NSRTTYDUPE.  A good set of sample functionkeys is in the N1MM+ website's function key gallery, available for freedownload.

After the contest, please remember to submit yourscores to www.3830scores.com.  It’s easy – on 3830, the name of thiscontest is “NCCC RTTY Sprint”.  Reportingyour score, whether it be big or small, helps build enthusiasm for this event. Thatin turn increases participation for future editions, which benefits all of us.

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



The details of our next NS RTTY:



Friday,  23 September 2022 UTC, 0145Z to0215Z (Thursday, 22 September 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