A couple of Sprint hints:
1. If you hear two call signs in a row, the first one will inherit the
frequency. e.g. N4ZZ K6LL - N4ZZ will inherit and K6LL will vacate.
2. If you are about to vacate the frequency and miss an element of the
exchange, and you can't get the inheritor's attention, just listen! The
inheritor is going to repeat the exchange for the next guy. Decrement
serial number by one.
Dave Hachadorian, K6LL
Big Bear Lake, CA
On 9/11/2022 6:55 PM, Ed Felter wrote:
What a challenge the sprints are for me! I have started the Thursday
sessions in the last few months and this was my first 4 hour test. I made
about 2 hours when 40 went away and 80 was very noisy so I took the
opportunity to hang it up with 100 Qs.
Sprints are kinda like some city streets — you are either quick or you’re
dead. I restarted CW about 6 years ago at age 70 and serious contesting
within the last 3 years or so. I am struggling to get a callsign out of
the melee quickly enough. But sprints are helping me like CWTs have
immensely benefitted my CW efforts. All of this comes at the expense of
you hams on the other end. Sorry for the delays, but please be reminded
that each of you is helping me to get a little bit better, for which I am
grateful.
There is a positive stress that comes from these sprints to which I can’t
seem to say no to even after a dreadful session! So I keep coming back. I
hope to get better!
Thank goodness for great software! Last night, in a hurry, I failed to
change a couple of macro strokes in the first few Qs and I know it was
confusing. I fixed that only to find that improper use of ESM can really
foul up responses in sprints when in other test there is no adverse
response. Sorry.
Anyway thanks for the QSOs and I will see you in the next sprint trying to
get better and hoping for your patience! 73
Ed AI6O
On Sun, Sep 11, 2022 at 8:14 PM Jim Brown<k9yc@audiosystemsgroup.com>
wrote:
On 9/11/2022 7:14 AM, Pete Smith N4ZR wrote:
Kind of a mixed experience. My first Sprint in maybe 5 years, and I had
real trouble getting into the rhythm of the thing. If it hadn't been
for an N1MM+ message file with some built-in helps, I would have been
really at sea. Finally packed it in at 90 minutes, without ever getting
to 80.
Hi Pete,
Sprint is, by far, the most challenging contest format, at least for me.
It took me a long time to get close to 300 Qs, and I think I might have
broken it once or twice. Each year, my 1941-vintage brain falls a bit
farther behind.
I was disappointed by the level of operating - particularly by those who
continued calling despite the called station having asked for a
particular station (with a partial call), as well as those failing to
wait until the previous QSO was really completed (with an "R" or other
ack). On the other hand, I made a lot of mistakes too.
Depending on who's hearing who, it can be hard to tell who's TXing --
whether it's the CQing station or the callers. And in Sprint, he who
hesitates is lost! Thanks to lightning static, I needed more than a
half-dozen number fills; when that happens, I'll send dits until other
callers have stopped, then ask for the fill. Only twice did I fail to
get it, so those stations lost a Q.
104 Q's in 90 minutes, 38 mults = 3,952 points. K3/KPA-1500, Carolina
Windom at ~40 feet (my tribander is down in the back yard)
FWIW, when we worked, three times, I think, you had a pretty reasonable
signal. Don't remember our 80M QSO.
73, Jim K9YC
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