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General Category => General Radio Discussion => Topic started by: Terry on April 08, 2017, 1920 UTC
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Straight Key Century Club (SKCC)
Straight Key Sprintathon (Includes SWL catefory)
This weekend until 2359 UTC on Sunday.
Details here:
http://www.skccgroup.com/operating_activities/weekend_sprintathon/
Some events focus on a theme or activity. Three popular themes that repeat each year are
Homebrew Keys, QRP, and Boat Anchors.
Themes tend to have special rules and scoring.
SKCC members who participate in the WES must use straight keys, sideswipers (cooties), or bugs.
Waivers from this policy are possible. For details, see the club's policy on approved keying
devices here. Because this event aims to include newcomers to CW as well as experience
brass-pounders, operating speed should be adjusted accordingly.
The sprintathon also has an entry category for shortwave listeners, who are cordially invited
to join the fun. Non-members are invited to take part as well.
For shortwave listeners:
You must copy at least one side of a WES QSO for a QSO point. If you copy both sides of a WES
exchanges, that counts as 2 QSO points. You can count the same station more than once only if
you copy that station's QSO on a different band -- one QSO per band. Note that some WES themes
may not allow SWL entrants to claim the theme-related bonus.
Frequencies:
Participants may sprint on 160-6 meters, excluding the WARC bands (60, 30, 17, and 12 meters).
Suggested frequencies are on or around the SKCC calling frequencies: 1.820, 3.550, 7.055
and 7.114, 14.050, 21.050 and 21.114, 28.050 and 28.114, and 50.090 Mhz. The club's sked
page or other spotting tools are permitted for this event. Where two frequencies are listed
for the same band, score as one band. That is, if you contact W8BALL on 7.050 and on 7.114,
you can count only one of those contacts.
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I really wish I already had the portable rig I've been working on getting... I would be all over the sprintathon this weekend, goshdarnit!
KD9CZG, who really needs to work on her yellow maple leaf award...
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Silent Key Century Club heh