[RTTY] NS RTTY Sprint

[Ktfrog007 at aol.com]

Once I suggested there be another Thursday Sprint at some  other time which 
might attract more participants, maybe even some DX.   Widen the stage a 
little.  I'm not sure what the best time would be.   We might learn that from 
watching the CWops Wednesday events.
 
While the dupe rule's an oddity, I'm OK with it although I usually  made so 
few contacts that often I didn't have an intervening QSO.  
 
That didn't matter since I participated in the Thursday evening Sprints to  
get my weekly RTTY fix and learn sprinting in order to do the real 
NA-Sprint  contests.  
 
That ended when I found out the latter allowed high power.  It was  
suggested that toward the end of the NA-Sprint contests I would still be sought  
after when all the big boys had worked each other out.  Maybe.  
 
The dregs of the ether.
 
73,
Ken, AB1J
 
 
 
 
In a message dated 2017-05-13 1:34:48 A.M. Coordinated Universal Tim,  
k6mr at outlook.com writes:

Dick has  been very successful in the past, so I think his problems were 
propagation  related last night.

But as I put in every weekly announcement, I (and  NCCC) welcome comments 
and suggestions on how to improve turnout.  We do  have some limitations 
(like non-interference with the CW NS) and I understand  that Sprint format is 
not the most popular.  Everyone is welcome to post  their suggestions (if 
Bill doesn’t mind the extra traffic on here) and we can  openly hash it out.  
Don’t be bashful, the worst that can happen is we  don’t do it. I’m 
certainly open to a public discussion of any ideas.  The  CW NS has 2X – 3X more 
activity, so it is possible to get people  interested.  Bill had some 
suggestions that I wasn’t keen about, but if  the larger group would like to try 
something different I’m not opposed to  experimentation.

So everyone do some thinking and let’s hear your  ideas.

Ken K6MR

From: Bill  Turner<mailto:dezrat at outlook.com>
Sent: Friday, May 12, 2017 5:07  PM
To: RTTY Reflector<mailto:rtty at contesting.com>
Subject: Re:  [RTTY] NS RTTY Sprint

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On Fri, 12 May 2017 08:54:31 -0500, KD0M  wrote:

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>I tried to work the NS RTTY Sprint last night and  finally gave up.

REPLY:

Something needs to be done to make the  NS RTTY more attractive to
RTTY'ers. Several months ago I submitted a few  suggestions to the
sponsor but he declined to adopt them.

Would  everybody please  put on their thinking cap and see what you can
come  up with. Post them here or send them directly to K6MR.

Thank  you,

73, Bill  W6WRT
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