[SECC] Announcement: NCCC RTTY NA Sprint Practice Thursday Night

[John Laney]

Despite puny participation in the past few parcels, I persist in 
promoting this 30 minute practice. (that's 7 P's of alliteration)
Personally, if I don't do it, I forget how to....

The RTTY Sprint practice continues on Thursday, one hour before the CW 
NS  this week.

To keep it interesting for those who participate, we'll allow dupes 
after one intervening QSO (includes band change)

*Next NS-RY:  0130 to 0200Z,  Dec.  6*; Thursday night in NA, 530 PM 
PST, etc.
For this upcoming RY practice, use 80, 40, 20m;  up 80 Khz. from the 
bottom of the band.

Slow speed CW NS continues at 0200Z for 15 minutes.

These 30 minute practices are  for experienced sprinters on cw to learn 
a new mode,
and for RTTY contesters to learn the *sprint format*.  Also a chance
to try out the newly popular 2Tone decoder.

There are two main differences between the NCCC Sprints and NA Sprint:
*In NS, power is limited to 100w, and mults count on all bands.

*You need two different messages in sprint, one when acquiring a 
frequency:  N6TR  245 KEN CA N6RO;
in a different order when vacating the freq.:  N8EA N6RO 246 KEN CA.
This let's others know who is acquiring the freq.

NS rules at: http://www.ncccsprint.com/rules.html
<http://www.ncccsprint.com/rules.html>These apply for the RTTY practice 
sprints.

Thanks to WA7BNM/N7WA for providing the 3830 score reporting each week.

If you want the Sprint RTTY practices to continue, vote by showing up 
each Thursday.

Thursday Night Diddler, N6RO


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