The North American QSO Party on RTTY will be Saturday February 29.
The friendly exchange is a Name and State (or Province or Country).
Five bands, 10m to 80m RTTY. QSOs and Multipliers count again each band!
Rules, records, and past results at the National Contest Journal website:
<http://ncjweb.com/> http://ncjweb.com/ ;
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.
Any group of friends can form a 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: 14080, 7080, and 3580 kHz and up.
Then, NAQP RTTY starts Saturday morning, 1800 UTC.
Suggested RTTY Contest Frequencies:
28.080 - 28.100 MHz
21.080 - 21.100 MHz
14.080 - 14.150 please avoid the NCDXF Beacon at 14.100 MHz
7.080 - 7.125 and "go low" 7.025 - 7.080 please avoid CW QSOs and FT8 at 7.074
MHz
3.580 - 3.600 and "go low" 3.525 - 3.600 please avoid CW QSOs and FT8 at 3.573
MHz
I welcome any photos and stories of your operation, they make the results more
interesting.
See you on RTTY, Saturday February 29!
Mark Aaker K6UFO
NAQP RTTY Contest Manager
k6ufo at arrl dot net
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