[CQ-Contest] Announcing the half hour RTTY NS (NCCC Sprint) contest this Thursday evening Western Hemisphere time.

[Ed Radlo]

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To all RTTY opsworldwide:  

This is a reminder thatonce again, the Northern California Contest Club is pleased to present our regular weekly half hourRTTY Sprint, aka the NS RTTY (or RTTY NS if you prefer), this Thursday evening WesternHemisphere time.  Non-Western Hemispherestations are welcome in this contest as well.

Yes, the contest willstill take place even though it’s Thanksgiving in the United States.

Remember that most ofNorth America switched to Standard Time on November 5.  The start time of the NCCC RTTY Sprint isalways 0145Z, regardless of whether we’re on Standard Time or Daylight SavingsTime.  That means that the local time,but not the UTC, for this contest changed with the change to Standard Time.  See below for details.

Last week, we had justso-so conditions on the high bands, but 40 meters was good, and 80 meters wasgood for the East Coast. 

For those of you who arenew to our weekly NS RTTY’s, we use a variation of the NCJ Sprint’s QSY rule– 1 KHz QSY’s rather than 5 KHz – and allow same band duplicate contacts aftermaking at least one intervening contact.  If you need a full explanationof these special rules, send me an e-mail, and I’ll give you all the details,e.g., a precise definition of our QSY rule. 

Remember to QSY afteryou’ve made a contact that you’ve solicited, and that both callsigns, yourname, your state, and your contact number are required as part of the exchangethat you send.  But don’t send a signalreport or other extraneous information.

After the contest, logsare not required to be submitted anywhere, but please remember to submit yourscore to www.3830scores.com.  It’s easy – on 3830, the name of thiscontest is “NCCC RTTY Sprint”.  Reporting your score, whether it bebig or small, helps build enthusiasm for this event. That in turn increasesparticipation for future editions, which benefits all of us. 

For those of you usingthe popular N1MM+ logger, the contest module to use is NSRTTYDUPE.  A goodset of example function keys is in the N1MM+ website's function key gallery,available for free download. 

Remember to try 15meters at the beginning of this Thursday night's contest – 15 has been openwith spotlight propagation at 0145Z lately.

The details of ournext NS RTTY: 

Friday, 24 November2023 UTC, 0145Z to 0215Z (Thursday, 23 November 2023 in the Western Hemisphere)

--1745 to 1815 PST

--2045 to 2115 EST

-- (others in betweenthose two time intervals)

-- 160 meters: Try 1804, 1805, or 1806 during the last two minutes

-- 80/40/20/15meters:  mostly +83 kHz to +89 kHz up from the lower band edge

-- Same banddupes are allowed for credit after one intervening QSO

-- 1 kHz QSYrule, otherwise standard NCJ Sprint QSY rules

-- Multipliers arecounted anew on each band, so if 4 or 5 bands are open, you’ll get a lot ofmults!

-- 100W output powerlimit

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 toreceive all the latest info about NS (both CW and RTTY), as well as a have avehicle for expressing your comments and questions, sign up for the NS mailinglist:  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 fewdepending upon who else is on) for comments and questions. 

73, 

EdRadlo  AJ6V

eddrad at aol.com

 

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