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To all RTTY opsworldwide:
This is a reminder thatonce again, the Northern California Contest Club is
pleased to present ourregular weekly half hour RTTY Sprint, aka the NS RTTY (or
RTTY NS if youprefer), this Thursday evening Western Hemisphere time.
Non-Western Hemisphere stations are welcomein this contest as well.
The start time of the NCCC’sRTTY Sprint is always 0145Z, regardless of whether
we’re on Standard Time or DaylightSavings Time.
Last week, in additionto our regulars, we welcomed back NR4O, who is on the
verge of becoming aregular again. And AA9L has been with usso many times, he
now qualifies as an Official Regular. We hope to see all of you again this
week!
For those of you who arenew to our weekly NS RTTY’s, we use a variation of the
NCJ Sprint’s QSY rule– 1 KHz QSY’s rather than 5 KHz – and allow same band
duplicate contacts aftermaking at least one intervening contact. If you need a
fullexplanation of these special rules, send me an e-mail, and I’ll give you
allthe details, e.g., a precise definition of our QSY rule.
Remember to QSY afteryou’ve made a contact that you’ve solicited, and that both
callsigns, yourname, your state, and your contact number are required as part
of the exchangethat you send.
After the contest, logsare not required to be submitted anywhere, but please
remember to submit yourscore to www.3830scores.com. It’s easy – on 3830, the
name of thiscontest is “NCCC RTTY Sprint”. Reporting your score, whether it
bebig or small, helps build enthusiasm for this event. That in turn
increasesparticipation for future editions, which benefits all of us.
For those of you usingthe popular N1MM+ logger, the contest module to use is
NSRTTYDUPE. A goodset of example function keys is in the N1MM+ website's
function key gallery,available for free download.
Remember to try 15meters at the beginning of this Thursday night's contest – 15
has been openwith spotlight propagation at 0145Z lately.
The details of ournext NS RTTY:
Friday, 20 October2023 UTC, 0145Z to 0215Z (Thursday, 19 October 2023 in the
Western Hemisphere)
--1845 to 1915 PDT
--2145 to 2215 EDT
-- (others in betweenthose two time intervals)
-- 160 meters: Try 1804, 1805, or 1806 during the last two minutes
-- 80/40/20/15meters: mostly +83 kHz to +89 kHz up from the lower band edge
-- Same banddupes are allowed for credit after one intervening QSO
-- 1 kHz QSYrule, otherwise standard NCJ Sprint QSY rules
-- Multipliers arecounted anew on each band, so if 4 or 5 bands are open,
you’ll get a lot ofmults!
-- 100W output powerlimit
Please visit https://www.ncccsprint.com/rttyns.html for complete rules and
links to otherinfo. If you find any problems with the Web pages, please let me
know so we canget them fixed.
If you would like toreceive all the latest info about NS (both CW and RTTY), as
well as a have avehicle for expressing your comments and questions, sign up for
the NS mailinglist: https://groups.io/g/nccc-blue. ;
Contestonlinescore.com has a slot set up for us if you’d like to make sure
yourlogger is talking to the world. Select “NCCC NA RTTY Sprint”.
Report scores to 3830scores.com, and join us at 0300Z on 3610 kHz (+/- a
fewdepending upon who else is on) for comments and questions.
73,
EdRadlo AJ6V
eddrad@aol.com
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