[SEDXC] NAQP SSB Saturday Night

[John Laney]

Hi Sean:  You can find complete rules on the WA7BNM contest calendar.  
This is a 4-hour SSB Sprint Contest.  It runs 0000 to 0400Z Sunday, 
meaning 8 to 12 PM Saturday night local.  It is on 20M, 40M, and 80M.  
The exchange is: both calls, #, name, SPC.

For example, you call CQ and K4BAI calls you.

You respond K4BAI W4XXX #1 SEAN GA.  I come back W4XXX #1 JOHN GA K4BAI.

There is a 1/5 kHz QSY rule. That means that the station who calls CQ or 
QRZ and works a station must QSY one kHz to call another station or 5 
kHz to call CQ again.  So, I inherit the frequency. Since I gave my call 
at the end of the exchange, others know I will inherit the frequency and 
may call after I get the acknowledgement from you (thanks or roger or 
something like that).  Since you gave your call at the first, you were 
indicating that you were listening for my exchange and you would not be 
staying on the frequency.

Activity will start on 20M and move down to 40 and then to 80.  It might 
pay to go back to 20 to listen for multipliers you might have missed 
earlier such as KH6 or KL7 or some western VEs and if the rate is slow 
on 80, you might go back to 40 for some of the western mults.

Mults are states, Canadian provinces/areas as listed in the rules, and 
North American countries outside US and Canada.  Stations outside NA and 
Hawaii send only Name and do not count for multipliers.

We'd be glad to have you participate every time it is run if you can.  
Let me know if you will be on the team (and tell me what your call 
is!).  I will register the team before the Sprint starts.

Something a bit different from the usual contest where high power 
stations with big antennas can sit on a frequency and run for hours.  
They must QSY after a maximum of two QSOs.  73, John.