The fun and friendly North American QSO Party on RTTY will be on
Saturday February 27. Our friendly exchange is a Name and State (or
Province or Country). Five bands, 10m to 80m, RTTY, Maximum of
100 watts to reduce the loud Alligators and give everyone a chance for
a little space to run. QSOs and Multipliers count again each band!
Rules, records, and past results at the National Contest Journal website:
<http://ncjweb.com/> http://ncjweb.com/ ;
TIME: Party-time is Saturday 1800 UTC to Sunday 0600 UTC.
Eastern-time that's Saturday afternoon 1PM to Sunday 1AM.
Pacific-time that's Saturday morning 10AM to 10PM.
Single-ops only operate 10 of the 12 hours, so you'll have time for a
meal or other Saturday chores, and still have Sunday free for your
weekend activities. Multi-ops can operate all 12 hours.
TEAMS: Any group of friends can form a NAQP Team of two to five
single-operators. Register your Team before the contest at the
"Team Registration" link: <http://ncjweb.com/rttynaqpteamreg/>
http://ncjweb.com/rttynaqpteamreg/ ;
RTTY Practice is available on Thursday and Friday nights:
Thursday night is the regular Thursday night RTTY NS Sprint.
This follows the North American Sprint exchanges and rules.
Friday 0145 UTC, Thursday 8:45PM EST, 5:45PM PST, for 30 minutes.
See: <http://ncccsprint.com/rttyns.html> http://ncccsprint.com/rttyns.html ;
Friday night is for NAQP RTTY Practice.
Saturday 0200 UTC, Friday 9PM EST, 6PM PST, for 30 minutes.
Call "CQ NA" and practice your NAQP exchanges and logging.
Frequencies: 14084, 7084, and 3584 kHz and up.
Then, NAQP RTTY starts Saturday morning, 1800 UTC.
I welcome any photos and stories of your operation, they make the
results report more interesting.
College Club Stations will be participating in the NAQP RTTY as
part of the NA Collegiate Championship. www.w9smc.com/nacc/
See you on RTTY, Saturday Saturday February 27!
Mark Aaker K6UFO
NAQP RTTY Contest Manager
k6ufo at arrl dot net
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