****Announcing the NCCC's (Northern California Contest Club) weekly Thursday
night running of the SNS , The cw sprint for the rest of us! ****
The SNS Has its own web site!
Check it at http://www.ncccsprint.com/sns.html
Please wait just a split second on jump balls ("sprinter " talk for several
stations answering a CQ). Please be aware of the fact that there are stations
just getting acclimated to sprinting, and can be easily intimidated so keep a
sharp friendly ear, and maybe let a station inheriting a frequency throw out a
cq prior to calling them.
Please keep your speed to between 18 to 26 WPM. Stations running on the
higher side of this please QRS for some of the slower operators. Remember we
are trying to welcome new sprinters to our ranks!
We will be preceding the standard NS this week, and a big welcome to Tom, N3ZZ
who will be spearheading activity for that contest with a 10 minute break
prior. The Slow Speed NS is from 1900-1920 PDST Thursday night ( 0200z to
0220z UTC Friday) now that the ladder is complete, we can loosen our belts a
bit so if you want to go a bit beyond 1920 go for it. With CQP coming up this
weekend, it would be great to hear some of those 1 X 1 calls out there, or some
of the county expeditions jumping in for a warmup!
Expect some co-ordination with N3ZZ on the regular NS on fun and interesting
ways to keep Thursday night contesting interesting, including 1 hour
extravaganza's! coming soon!
Frequencies:
20 m 14037-14043
40 m 7040-7047
80 m 3537-3543
its a bit early for 160, so lets not go there for now.
POWER: 100 watt limit.
If you don't hear a CQ, send a CQ and don't worry about the couplet since this
is only practice and hopefully an introduction to sprints for newbies.
Stations might answer a CQ more likely than call CQ themselves. With that said
remember that newbies are listening to get up the nerve to jump in so don't
hesitate to make Q's.
The SNS, NS and NS Ladder and the NCCC/NS Net on 3610 immediately following at
0300 that will continue to be hosted by Ken N6RO are all part of the "Thursday
night contesting" experience sponsored by the Northern California Contest Club!
Sites to help everyone for sprint contests.
NS home website is:
http://www.ncccsprint.com/
http://www.contesting.com/articles/198
http://n6tr.jzap.com/sprint.html
Need help with your logging software, macros, etc.? Feel free to drop me an
email and we will do our best to assist!
73 es GL and above all, enjoy and have fun!
more exciting changes to come in the near future! We are working on it so
stay tuned!
Chris
N6WM
Contest Director, Slow NCCC Sprint
President, NCCC 2011-2012 Contest Season
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