[SECC] Announcement: SNS Slow Speed Practice Tonight

[John Laney]

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

Please wait just a split second on jump balls ("ns" talk for several 
stations answering a CQ).  Please be aware of the fact that there are 
stations just getting acclimated to sprinting, and can be easily 
intimidated so keep a sharp friendly ear, and maybe let a station 
inheriting a frequency throw out a cq prior to calling them.

Please keep your speed to between 18 to 26  WPM.  Stations running on 
the higher side of this please be willing to QRS for some of the slower 
operators.  Remember we are trying to welcome new sprinters to our ranks!

We will be preceding the NS Ladder competition (A fantastic warm up for 
all!), with a 10 minute break prior. So for now, the Slow Speed NS is 
from 0200z to 0220z+ (Friday UTC, Thursday local time).  That's starting 
at 9:00pm EDT, 8:00pm CDT, 7:00pm MDT and 6:00pm 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.

NSL(NCCC Sprint Ladder #10) starts this week 0230z to 0300z (See N6ZFO's 
announcement).

The SNS, NS and NS Ladder and the NCCC/NS Net on 3610 immediately 
following are all part of the "Thursday night contesting" experience 
sponsored by the Northern California Contest Club!


Sites to help everyone for sprint contests.

NS home website is:
http://www.ncccsprint.com/
http://www.contesting.com/articles/198
http://n6tr.jzap.com/sprint.html

Need help with your logging software, macros, etc.? Feel free to drop me 
an email and we will do our best to assist!

73 es GL

New SNS Website and more exciting changes to come in the near future! 
We are working on it so stay tuned!

Chris
N6WM
Contest Director, SNS

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