[TAC] SS practice Thursday and Friday - plus slow speed sprint

[Ian Hill]

    Slow NS

Announcing the NCCC's (Northern California Contest Club) weekly Thursday 
night running of the SNS.

The Slow Speed NS practice is from 0200z to 0215z (Friday UTC, Thursday 
local time). That's starting at 10:00pm EDT, 9:00pm CDT, 8:00pm MDT and 
7:00pm PDT, local time Thursday.

Bands will be 20, 40 and 80 meters (around 3540, 7040 and 14040). Start 
on 20 then 40 and finally 80 (maybe 5 minutes each).

In the SNS dupes are allowed (dupe allowed after 1 intervening Q) so you 
are allowed to work the same station again as long as you have worked 
another station in between.

Regular NS 0230z to 0300z this week 20/40/80/160

Sites to help everyone for sprint contests.

_http://www.contesting.com/articles/198_

_http://n6tr.jzap.com/sprint.html_

Mike W9RE


*NCCC PRACTICE CONTEST* continues this week, Oct. 30 & 31 local dates in 
North America; Oct. 31, Nov. 1, UTC

SS rules, no dupes. In addition to the usual Thursday practice, we'll 
run a Friday night session for the guest ops travelling to their host 
stations.

--30 mins 0230-03Z (all NCCC practice sessions will be the same

0230 UTC START TIME YEAR-ROUND (until further notice):

This Thursday & Friday, use real ARRL SWEEPSTAKES rules using four bands:

BANDS: 20, 40, 80, 160m: -- 14040, 7040, 3540, 1815 +/-5. SPREAD OUT!

-- CW only, choice of power, no dupes

Slow speed NS from 0200 to 0215Z, 20, 40, 80m.  Regular NS rules, not SS 
rules, for Slow NS.

The schedule of Thursday (sometimes Friday also) events through March, 
2009, is posted above.

General rules and further info on this web site.  Navigation menu on left.

-- Report scores near 3610 LSB after the practice, at 0300Z (8 PM PDT, 7 
PST NEXT WEEK) on the weekly NCCC net), and the 3830 Score posting page 
(thanks to WA7BNM & N7WA).

Next week, Nov. 7, back to NS rules. For the winter season we'll start 
NS at 0230 UTC, one hour earlier LOCAL TIME than the summer season.

CU, N6RO <mailto:kenkeeler at jazznut.com>