Author: Spring Sprints <springvhfuhfsprints@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:11:44 -0500
Phil and VHF Contesting Community, First, BE CAREFUL of what is posted on the WA7BNM Contest Calendar, the information that >I< see PRESENTLY posted for "April" is for _2008_ and the dates are NOT th
Author: Spring Sprints <springvhfuhfsprints@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:49:20 -0500
Hello Les (and VHFcontesting community), I saw your (Les's) comments in the dxworld 220 Prop chat area about the lack of activity there in Alabama. We had a pretty good crowd up in the Chicago area a
Author: Spring Sprints <springvhfuhfsprints@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 23:14:45 -0500
Greetings all, 1. Reminder that the 432 MHz Sprint is THIS WEEK, Wednesday, April 22, from 7pm (1900) LOCAL TIME until 11pm (2300). 2. LOG SUBMISSION DEADLINE for the 144 MHz Sprint is THIS WEEK, Tue
Author: Spring Sprints <springvhfuhfsprints@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 10:01:10 -0500
Greetings all, Three down and two to go! 1. The fourth event of this year's Spring Sprint series, for Microwave/902 MHz & Up, is this coming Saturday, 5/2, from 6am to 1pm "local time". This is the f
Author: Spring Sprints <springvhfuhfsprints@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 3 May 2009 13:45:56 -0500
Greetings all, Four down and one to go! 1. The fourth event of this year's Spring Sprint series, for Microwave/902 MHz & Up, has now passed and five logs had already been submitted as of my update to
Author: Spring Sprints <springvhfuhfsprints@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 9 May 2009 15:21:16 -0500
Greetings all, Well, it's STILL "Four down and one to go!" 1. The fifth and final event is the 50 MHz Spring Sprint, "tonight"! This is the ONE event that runs in the "same" hours for everybody, 2300
Author: Spring Sprints <springvhfuhfsprints@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 21:17:42 -0500
Greetings all, Well, all 5 of the Spring Sprint Events are past and the only remaining 'deadline' is tomorrow's log submission deadline for the 50 MHz event. I've received 58 logs for 50 MHz so far a
Author: Spring Sprints <springvhfuhfsprints@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 18:02:15 -0500
Greetings all, And please accept my SINCERE apologies for posting something NOT about the "Limited Rover" Rule change. I had written: While I didn't make my target of Noon (or might it still be befor
Author: Spring Sprints <springvhfuhfsprints@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2010 09:58:20 -0500
Greetings VHF Contesters, I'll spare the excuses but I've not been as "attentive" and proactive toward promoting THIS year's Spring Sprint series as I'd like to have been. Thanks to others who have s
Author: Spring Sprints <springvhfuhfsprints@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 07:58:17 -0500
Greetings all, 1. Reminder that the 222 MHz Sprint is TONIGHT, Tuesday, April 20, from 7pm (1900) LOCAL TIME until 11pm (2300). 2. 51 Logs have been received for last week's 144 MHz event and it appe
Author: Spring Sprints <springvhfuhfsprints@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 18:08:48 -0500
Greetings all, 1. TODAY is the deadline for submitting 144 MHz Logs. I've JUST done an update of the Logs Received report, now showing 79 Log Received with 77 of them "accepted". There are ALSO some
Author: Spring Sprints <springvhfuhfsprints@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 13:58:05 -0500
Greetings all, THREE weeks have now passed since the first of this year's Spring Sprints on 144 MHz and FOUR of the events are DONE (stick a fork in them and turn them over!). 1. The final count of l
Author: Spring Sprints <springvhfuhfsprints@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 08:36:58 -0500
Greetings, Here's a reminder for this year's 50 MHz Spring Sprint, TOMORROW evening (or starting later afternoon in the more western U.S. time zones), from May 8, 2010, 2300Z through May 9, 2010, 025
Author: Spring Sprints <springvhfuhfsprints@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 09:23:07 -0500
Greetings all, FOUR weeks have now passed since the first of this year's Spring Sprints on 144 MHz this past Saturday saw the last of them with the 50 MHz event. 1. The count of logs for the 222 MHz
Author: Spring Sprints <springvhfuhfsprints@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 08:30:18 -0500
Greetings all, FIVE weeks have now passed since the first of this year's Spring Sprints on 144 MHz. All events have now been completed and only one of the log submission windows remains open (for the
Author: Spring Sprints <springvhfuhfsprints@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 10:40:07 -0500
Greetings all, TUESDAY, May 25th, is the log submission deadline for the 50 MHz Sprint. The count of logs received for the 50 MHz event has stretched up to 50 as of my last update, still shy of the 5
Author: Spring Sprints <springvhfuhfsprints@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2011 14:42:37 -0500
As I was last year, I am again delinquent is fulfilling my duties as host for the Spring VHF/UHF Sprints. Thanks to others who have been promoting them in my absence and I hope this is in time for th
Author: Spring Sprints <springvhfuhfsprints@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 11:13:21 -0500
Happy Easter to the VHF Contesting community, Two down and three to go for the 2011 Spring Sprints. As of this morning's log receipts, 144 MHz has reached the half-century mark (50) and 222 MHz has r
Author: Spring Sprints <springvhfuhfsprints@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 2 May 2011 11:00:27 -0500
Monday, May 2nd, 2011 Three down and two to go for the 2011 Spring Sprints. The submission deadline has passed for 144 MHz with the "final" count of Logs Received at 64 but I am awaiting a reply from
Author: Spring Sprints <springvhfuhfsprints@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 8 May 2011 10:28:35 -0500
Sunday, May 8th, 2011 Happy Mother's Day to all. Four down and one to go for the 2011 Spring Sprints. I have "finalized" the set of logs for 144 MHz, 66 total. The set of logs for 222 MHz is also fin