The NCCC Winter Sprint Ladder competition, part of NCCC Thursday night CW
contesting, now underway, is taking a two week break.
But on New Year's Eve we'll gather for a half-hour Straight Key Sprint
concurrent with the ARRL SKN. Times, scoring and rules are exactly as for
the regular NS. We encourage participation in the ARRL SKN. . . you can view
the NS half hour as a kind of hyper-contest break from that activity,
allowing you to really destroy your hand.
See http://www.ncccsprint.com/rules.html for general rules. In summary .
0230-0300Z January 1, Thursday night Dec 31 in NA.
-- 20, 40, 80, 160m cw (around 1816 on 160m)
-- 100 watts max
-- Sprint format: Ser #, Name, State
-- No same-band dupes
-- Scoring: 1 pt / Q x Band mults as in NAQP
Report scores to the NCCC-Blue reflector if you subscribe, else directly to
N6ZFO@arrl.net. There will *not* be a 3830 form for this event. We can
gather on 3540 afterwards using any old key, for discussion, score reporting
etc.
NOTE: on 40m there may be minor frequency competition with the RTTY Roundup
Practice being conducted by the NCCC. That event has priority, so give the
RTTY guys their room, which is I believe 7050 down to 7040. Note there's a
2nd RTTY practice on Jan 1. We should be mostly ok at the usual NS
frequency around 7040.
Here's hoping many of you can participate in the kind-of-crazy NS activity.
But in any case, the NS crew wishes everyone a Happy New Year.
73 Bill n6zfo
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