NA Sprint CW Contest
Call: K9GY
Operator(s): K9GY
Station: K9GY
Class: Single Op QRP
QTH: IL (EN61fn)
Operating Time (hrs): 2.5
Summary:
Band QSOs Op Time
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80:
40: 29
20: 13
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Total: 42 Mults = 11 Total Score = 462
Club: Society of Midwest Contesters
Team: SMC Tiempo Parte
Comments:
Umm, you ever ask yourself whether you are crazy before you do this radio stuff,
hah! To even consider QRP in a sprint I thought I was! Maybe I should of used
LOCO for the name instead of ACE. To my surprise, I really had a lot of fun.
Each QSO is like a miracle...well pretty cool at least.
I thought the best strategy would be to find a clear freq and call CQ so that
the big boys can find me and get two QSOs out of the freq. Seemed to work ok.
Then I switched to answering CQ (guess I was feeling my signal was big).
Answering CQs almost seemed to work better than CQing.
Guess there must be a RTTY contest going on 40m?
Oh and to top off QRP ...I sent everything by hand... No keyer, no
radio/computer interface...almost back to the old days except for computer
logging with WriteLog. Paper logging was pushing it a little, hah!
All in all, a fun time. I will have to try this QRP Sprint thing again.
Best of health to all,
Eric K9GY
FT-817 and Cushcraft R8 (base about 11 feet high)
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