To all Diddlers and Padiddlers:
Before I tell you who the surprise station will be this week, let me express
from all of us our great appreciation to Ken K6MR for having managed this
weekly NS RTTY Sprint Contest in such a fine manner for so many years. We hope
to see him on the air as much as he is able to get on. When he can't make it
on the air, we will miss his strong signal and his adroit operating.
Now, who is the surprise station going to be this week? The surprise station
is YOU! You who enjoys RTTY, but hasn’t tried this weekly half hour fun fest
yet. The rates are about 75% as high as the frenetic rates in our sister
contest, the weekly CW NS Sprints. Because of the lower participation in RTTY
than for CW, we have the rule that you can work for credit the same station on
the same band more than once, as long as you make one intervening QSO between
contacts with that same station. Now, you say, isn’t that boring? NO, because
of our other rule that says you have to QSY at least one KHz after making a QSO
that you have solicited. That's the same as in the Big (NCJ) Sprints, except
the QSY must be at least 1 KHz rather than 5 KHz. As a result of this
combination of rules, this contest very fun and challenging, as those who have
tried it will attest.
Remember to try 15 meters at the beginning of this Thursday night's contest --
it's been open!
Also, please submit you score to 3830 at the end of the contest!
The details of the next NS RTTY:
Friday, 15 Apr 2022, 0145Z to 0215Z (Thursday, 14 Apr 2022 in NA)
-- 1845 to 1915 PDT
-- 2145 to 2215 EDT
-- (others in-between those two)
-- 160: Try 1804, 1805, 1806 (Last two to five minutes seem to be popular…)
-- 80/40/20/15 +84 kHz up from the band edge
-- Same band dupes OK after one intervening QSO
-- 1 kHz QSY rule, otherwise standard Sprint rules
-- Mults are counted per band.
-- 100W power limit
Please visit https://www.ncccsprint.com/rttyns.html for complete rules and
links to other info. If you find any problems with the Web pages, please let me
know so we can get them fixed.
If you would like to receive all the latest info about NS (both CW and RTTY),
as well as a have a place for comments and questions, sign up for the NS
mailing list: https://groups.io/g/nccc-blue
Contestonlinescore.com has a slot set up for us if you’d like to make sure your
logger is talking to the world. Select NCCC NA RTTY Sprint.
Report scores to 3830scores.com, and join us at 0300Z on 3610 kHz (+/- a few
for ongoing groups) for comments and questions (and dinner menus).
Don’t forget to check out RTTYops Weekday and Weekend Sprints.
Tuesday/Thursday/Sunday (in NA) for you hopelessly addicted Sprinters.
73,
Ed AJ6V
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