[SECC] SNS Practice Thursday Night

[John T. Laney III]

Announcing the NCCC’s (Northern California Contest Club) weekly Thursday 
night running of the SNS.

Since SNS is a practice and we are trying hard to encourage newcomers, 
please wait just a split second on jump balls (several stations 
answering a CQ). One thing I have noticed is that if a newcomer inherits 
a freq and more then one station drop in their call, he is likely to be 
overwhelmed (we all know what I mean) and not respond at all. If I hear 
another response to a station inheriting the frequency I do not call 
(only SNS). Go ahead and call if no station is heard.

Please keep your speed to between _18 to 26 WPM_. Suggest using 18WPM 
for the first 10 minutes then increase as you see fit. __

The Slow Speed NS practice is from 0200z to 0225z+ (Friday UTC, Thursday 
local time). That’s starting at 10:00pm EDT, 9:00pm CDT, 8:00pm MDT and 
7:00pm PDT, local time Thursday .

Frequencies:
20 m 14037-14043
40 m 7040-7047
80 m 3537-3543


POWER: 100 watt limit.

If you don’t hear a CQ, send a CQ and don’t worry about the couplet 
since this is only practice and hopefully an introduction to sprints for 
newbies. I think stations might answer a CQ more likely than call CQ 
themselves. With that said remember that newbies are listening to get up 
the nerve to jump in so don’t hesitate to make Q’s. Also since this is 
only a practice you can go past the 15 minute time suggestion.

NS 0230z to 0300z (ladder starts this week, see N6ZFO’s announcement).

Sites to help everyone for sprint contests.

http://www.contesting.com/articles/198

http://n6tr.jzap.com/sprint.html

Mike W9RE

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