[Mldxcc] Fw: Phone Fray - New SSB Contest - Start Date

[Bill Haddon]

K6MR wrote:

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I would be willing to try a different format if it would improve
participation on RTTY, although that would change it to another contest
with the loud stations sitting on one frequency for 30 minutes working
everyone else.

An NAQP-RTTY short weekly contest might work, but probably not under the NS
umbrella.  Interesting that NW2K appears to be organizing the Phone Fray
w/o club sponsorship.  For NS Ladder (and later NS), I am very grateful
both for the encouragement of NCCC and of the NS Advisory Group (N4AF,
W9RE, N3BB, K6UFO, W4NZ, K4BAI, W0BH).  The NSLadder/NS, the CWOps
contests, 7QP,  the amazing "Talk Like a Pirate" contest (W6RRR) and of
course the Locust QSO party were all invented with significant or sole
input from NCCC members. Maybe there are others I don't know about.

For NS CW we adopted the Sprint format (the W6OAT, NAS type sprint)  but
with band-mults.  We have over 100 devoted followers, with maybe 60-70
showing up for at least part of a particular 8-week NS Ladder. We lose a
few and gain a few each time; others take  breaks for classes, music gigs,
and even tennis games. The QRP component shows the most increase recently.

73 Bill n6zfo

On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 7:57 PM, Ken K6MR <k6mr at outlook.com> wrote:

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> I would be willing to try a different format if it would improve
> participation on RTTY, although that would change it to another contest
> with the loud stations sitting on one frequency for 30 minutes working
> everyone else. I agree that the Sprint format is likely why we don’t get
> more takers.
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> It will be interesting to see how well the new session does.
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> Ken K6MR
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> *From: *Bill Haddon
> *Sent: *Monday, July 20, 2015 18:50
> *To: *nccc at contesting.com
> *Cc: *mldxcc at contesting.com;Robert Hess;K Beals
> *Subject: *Re: [Mldxcc] Fw: Phone Fray - New SSB Contest - Start Date
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> Re: the new Fone Fray 30min ssb contest.
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> Dean, NW2K, a participant in the NS and NS Ladder, consulted us on the
> format and rules for this new SSB contest. It was a pleasure to work with
> him; Dean drew heavily both on the experience of NS and of CWOps in
> devising rules and protocols.
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> Originally, his proposal was to use the NAS sprint format for Fone Fray;
> you all probably know that NS/NSLadder follows a blended NAS/NAQP format.
> So I was a little surprised that he didn't adopt that, but instead opted
> for an NAQP mimic. Originally his contest would have had the same
> relationship to the very sucessful SSB-sprint (N6WM) that NS/NSLadder bears
> to the NA Sprint.
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> It will be interesting to see how the NAQP format works for a weekly
> contest.  If it's highly successful, it might be useful to switch our
> RTTY-NS (NAS protocol) to the NAQP format.  The response to the RTTY-NS
> (NAS protocol) has been a little less than hoped for, despite an amazingly
> diligent effort by Ken, K6MR.
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> 73 Bill N6ZFO
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> for NCCC Thursday Night Contesting (TNC).
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> On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 6:29 PM, Robert Hess via Mldxcc <
> mldxcc at contesting.com> wrote:
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> The rules for a new weekly SSB event, based on the North American QSO
> Party (NAQP), are located here:
> http://www.perluma.com/Phone_Fray_Contest_Rules.pdf
> It's called Phone Fray.  The start date is Tuesday (evening) July 28 (July
> 29 UTC).  To accommodate busy schedules, the contest lasts for just
> 30-minutes and will be great for fast-paced NAQP practice and welcoming new
> contesters of all skill levels.  100 watts max makes everyone loud!  No
> logs, just report scores to 3830scores.com.
> Exchange:  Name and State/Province/NA_Country
> Please forward this email to your club and other amateurs that might be
> interested.
> A free Yahoo Group reflector has been formed for PhoneFray communications
> and please consider joining in the fun using the following link:
> <https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/PhoneFray/info>
> ​​ <https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/PhoneFray/info>
> https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/PhoneFray/info
> If this link does not work, send me a note and I will send you a direct
> invitation to join the group.  Any questions, please send me a note any
> time.  Thanks!
> 73, Dean, NW2K
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