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NS Rules
Note
These are the "nominal" NS rules and may be modified on a weekly basis.
Refer to the Next NS web page for details on any
modifications for a given week.
Time
- 1930-1959 Pacific Time (PST or PDT depending on Daylight Savings)
Thursday evening. (NS begins at exactly 1930. A participant
may not respond to a CQ or it's equivalent more than 30.00 minutes later
-- 2000. In other words, if the soliciting station receives and
sends the call sign of the responding station before 30.00 minutes after
the start, then the QSO can be completed and counted. Otherwise,
not.)
Frequencies (near)
Exchange
- Serial number
- Name
- QTH (US state, Canadian
Province or DX country)
Rules
NCJ NA CW Sprint rules
with the following modifications:
- Rules modified to NAQP rules:
-
NAQP multipliers, i.e., KH6 is an additional multiplier
- Multipliers count once per band
- 160 meter QSOs permitted
- 100 watts or less power
- Scoring is total QSOs times sum of multipliers on each band
- The 5kHz QSY rule reduced to 1kHz
-
The same station can be worked multiple times provided 1 contact
separates the contact in both logs on the same band. Back-to-back
contacts on different bands are OK.
- 30-minute contest period (see Time above)
Reporting
- Post to the 3830 reflector via the 3830
submittal web page for the NS Ladder Competition within 48 hours
after the NS. Direct posting to
N6ZFO is also acceptable
within 7 days.
Guidelines
- Reduce CW speed for slower stations
- When N6RO works N6ZFO, N6RO may have had the
required intervening QSO but not N6ZFO.
N6ZFO could respond with "NIQ" (no intervening QSO),
"LTR" (for Later), "NO" or "AS".
Software
- Use either the
NA CW Sprint or Internet
Sprint module of your favorite logging program, making sure it
allows duplicates to be worked and logged, even though they may not be
included in the computed score.
- If your logging software cannot add
band-multipliers and/or legal dupes to the score computation, then
some manual post-contest work will be necessary to get the total
score.
- N1MM Logger, TR-Log and Win-Test handle NS completely,
including proper score computation. Details are available on the
NS Software web page, along
with specific information on other popular contest loggers. If
you can enhance this information, please contact W0YK.
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