[TAC] slow speed sprint practice and NS practice tonight

[Ian Hill]

NS ladder competition starts next week. Top 9 scores out of 14 ladder 
contest count toward awards.
http://www.ncccsprint.com/ladder.htm



    Slow NS

SNS continues this week.

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 9:00pm EDT, 8:00pm CDT, 7:00pm MDT and 
6:00pm PDT, local time Thursday.

Bands will be 40 and 80 meters (around 3537 to 3543 and 7037 to 7043).

(Slight frequency adjustment to coincide with where operations occur).

In the SNS dupes are allowed so you are allowed to work the same station 
again as long as you have called a CQ in between.



    NS

Starting this week Ken, N6RO begins his very deserved NS Vacation after 
a long stretch of shepherding these weekly NCCC  practice events.  
Thanks, Ken, for a superb and sustained effort.

The NCCC Sprint Ladder competition begins Apr 3rd for a 14-week session, 
details of which are still being worked out.  Look forward to another 
year of NS Ladder Spring and Summer fun.  We've added two team members 
to the NS Ladder Board, Ted, W4NZ, replacing K3STX, and our first 
Canadian member, Chris VA3NR.

This week , Mar 27 UTC, we'll have the NS Practice session using 4 bands 
and the posted NS Rules.  It's a good chance for final tune-up prior to 
the start of the Ladder.    For this practice the QSY rule is 1 KHz and 
the suggested frequencies are around 14040, 7040, 3540 and 1812. 

Remember to spread out!

WA7BNM may have a score reporting form but if not you are welcome to 
send score reports directly to n6zfo at arrl.net <mailto:n6zfo at arrl.net>.  
We'll post a summary message to CQ-Contest Reflector.

As always, we welcome comments and suggestions for the NS and NS Ladder.

73 Bill n6zfo
NS Ladder Contest Director

NS 0230z to 0300z this week regular NS Sprint Rules CW (dupes allowed) 
See N6ZFO's announcement.

NS for this week see N6RO's announcement-both CW and RTTY times.

Sites to help everyone for sprint contests:

    * _ http://www.contesting.com/articles/198_
    *

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