[RTTY] Thursday NS RTTY

[Ken K6MR]

Greetings Diddlers:


I hope everyone had a great New Year celebration.  Also I trust those of 
you in the deep freeze found a comfy spot!  Last week had quite the 
turnout given the end of the year.  New stations W2TT along with NCCCers 
W1RH and W9KKN were in there with a plethora of our regular stations.  
This was the first RTTY Sprint ever for W1RH, and W9KKN must have been 
back home /9 even though he's now an NCCC member.  Welcome guys and hope 
we'll see you again!



This weekend is the first serious RTTY test of the year: ARRL RTTY 
Roundup.  So let's make sure your diddle machines are ready to go.  
Please join us Thursday evening and give everything a checkout.  Yes the 
format is a little different but jump in and we'll make sure you are 
ready for a successful weekend.



Here are the details for our usual Thursday evening session:

Friday,  5 Jan 2018, 0145Z - 0215Z (Thursday, 4 Jan 2018 in NA)
-- 1745 - 1815 PST
-- 2045 - 2115 EST
-- (others in-between those two)
-- 160: 1805 and up
-- 80/40/20/15/10 +80kHz up from the band edge
-- Same band dupes ok after 1 intervening Q or band change.
-- 1 kHz QSY rule, otherwise standard Sprint rules
-- Mults per band
-- 100W power limit

Please visit http://www.ncccsprint.com/rttyns.html for complete rules 
and links to other info. If you find any problems with the web pages, 
please let me know so we can get them fixed.



If you would like to receive all the latest info about NS as well as a 
have a place for comments and questions, sign up for the NS mailing 
list: http://www.kkn.net/mailman/listinfo/nccc-blue



For something new (and exciting?), give the live scoreboard a try at 
https://contestonlinescore.com .  Set up your logger to report and 
select the NCCC NA RTTY SPRINT on the web page to display the scores.  
The Help menu pulldown will give you the info needed to setup the most 
common logging programs.



Don’t forget to report your score to 3830scores.com, and join us at 
0300Z on 3610 kHz (+/- a few for ongoing groups) for comments and 
questions (and dinner menus).


Diddle diddle,

Ken K6MR