[CQ-Contest] The Winter NAQP RTTY contest is arriving Saturday February 24, 2024

K6UFO Mark Aaker k6ufo at arrl.net
Mon Feb 19 16:19:21 EST 2024


The North American QSO Party (NAQP) on RTTY will be Saturday February 24. 
Please join the fun with the friendly contest exchange of a Name and State (or Province or Country).
Single-op scores count up to 10 of the 12 hours, so you can have 2 hours off for meals, family, ...   
Five bands, 10m to 80m, RTTY only, Maximum of 100 watts.
Contacts and Multipliers count again on each band - Hooray for 10m!
Rules, records, and past results at the National Contest Journal website: 
<http://ncjweb.com/naqp/http://ncjweb.com/naqp/  
 
Any group of two to five single-operators can form a NAQP Team. 
Register your Team before the contest at the "Team Registration" link:  
<http://ncjweb.com/rttynaqpteamreg/http://ncjweb.com/rttynaqpteamreg/
 
RTTY Practice is available on Thursday and Friday nights: 
1. Thursday night is the WRT, the Weekly RTTY Test at 0145Z Friday in NAQP Format (Name and State).
  https://radiosport.world/wrt.html
2. Friday night is more NAQP RTTY Practice. Saturday 0200Z (Friday 9PM EST, 6PM PST) 
Call "CQ NA" and practice your NAQP exchanges and logging for about 30 minutes.
Frequencies: 14083, 7083, and 3585 kHz and up. 
 
Then, NAQP RTTY starts Saturday morning, 1800 UTC.  
I welcome your photos or stories of your operation, to make the results article more interesting. 
Look for college stations in the NA Collegiate Championship. <http://www.w9smc.com/nacc/>
 
See you in the NAQP RTTY contest, Saturday February 24, 2024!
 
Mark K6UFO 
NAQP RTTY Contest Manager 
k6ufo at arrl dot net



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