[RTTY] Reminder: NAQP RTTY Practice Thu and Fri, Contest on Saturday July 15

[K6UFO Mark Aaker]

The North American QSO Party on RTTY will be this Saturday. 
Saturday July 15 1800 UTC to Sunday July 16 0600 UTC. 

Exchange is a Name and State (or Province or Country). 
Five bands, 10m to 80m. Usual RTTY freqs starting 080 kHz and higher. 

Rules, Team Registration, Past Results and Records are all at the 
National Contest Journal: 
<http://ncjweb.com/naqp/> http://ncjweb.com/naqp/ 

RTTY Practice is available on Thursday and Friday nights: 

Thursday night July 13 is "early" NAQP RTTY Practice. 
5:00PM PDT, 8:00PM EDT (0000 UTC Friday) for 30 minutes. 
try "CQ NAQP Practice" and practice your NAQP exchanges. 
Frequencies: 14080, 7080, and 3580 kHz and up. 

...followed by the weekly Thursday night RTTY NS Sprint 
6:45PM PDT, 9:45 EDT (0145 UTC Friday) for 30 minutes. 
This follows the North American Sprint exchanges and rules. 
<http://ncccsprint.com/rttyns.html> http://ncccsprint.com/rttyns.html 

Friday night July 14 is the "late" NAQP RTTY Practice. 
8:00PM PDT, 11:00PM EDT (0300 UTC Saturday) for 30 minutes. 
try "CQ NAQP Practice" and practice your exchanges. 
Frequencies: 14080, 7080, and 3580 kHz and up. 

Then, NAQP RTTY starts Saturday, 11:00AM PDT, 02:00PM EDT (1800 UTC) 

In the July contest, you may encounter some Europeans in the 
DMC RTTY Contest who would like a Signal Report and a Serial Number 
(599 001). Get their NAME for your NAQP RTTY log. 

Have a great time, and send me any good photos and stories. 
See you on RTTY, Saturday July 15! 

Mark Aaker K6UFO 
NAQP RTTY Contest Manager 
k6ufo at arrl dot net