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[RTTY] Fwd: [CQ-Contest] RTTY NCCC Sprint on Thursday (in NA), DUPES OK,

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Subject: [RTTY] Fwd: [CQ-Contest] RTTY NCCC Sprint on Thursday (in NA), DUPES OK, add 15m!
From: Hank Garretson <w6sx@arrl.net>
Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 21:27:10 -0700
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On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 5:45 PM, Ken Keeler <kenkeeler@jazznut.com> wrote:

The  30 minute RTTY sprint practice continues on Thursday, one hour before
> the CW NS Ladder this week.
>
> Slow speed CW NS continues at 0200Z for 15 minutes.
>
> Next NS-RY:  0130 to 0200Z, May 24;  Thursday night in NA, 630 PM PDST,
> etc.
> To pump up the activity, DUPEs are OK, after one intervening QSO on any
> band.
> And, 15m has been open for the past few weeks, so let's start there.
> 100w max.
>
> 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 usually limited to 100w, and mults count on all bands.
> For this upcoming RY practice, use 80, 40, 20, 15m;  up 80+ Khz. from the
> bottom of the band.
>
> 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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