[RTTY] RTTY Roundup Practice Thu

[Dean Wood]

The NCCC invites you to participate in tonight's (Thursday) RTTY Roundup 
practice:

*RTTY Roundup Practice
Thursday, December 30; 7:00pm-7:30pm PST
[In UTC: Friday, December 31; 03Z-03:30Z]
Suggested frequencies: 3585, 7085, 14085 kHz, +/-
(Let's be courteous to ongoing QSOs.)
Format: RTTY Roundup exchange
RTTY Roundup rules: http://www.arrl.org/contests/rules/2005/rtty.html

You're also welcome to join the NCCC net at 04Z on 3.853MHz +/- 5kHz.

We'll also have RTTY Roundup practices next Thursday and Friday.

The Northern California Contest Club regularly organizes contest 
practice sessions for other contests, and had a RTTY Roundup practice 
last January.  It is a good opportunity to debug many setup issues 
before the real contest.

These practice sessions are useful to:
*Test your antennas to make sure they have survived the winter so far
*Test RTTY interface and tweak sound card levels
*Verify your TX polarity is correct and your TX signal is free from RFI
*Test logging software, function key macros, MMTTY setup (do you really 
want AFC or NET enabled?)
*Test SO2R setup
*Practice moving stations to other bands for QSOs
*Get in one more contest fix before the new year

73...
-Dean - N6DE
NCCC VP/CC