NCJ North American Sprint
February 4, 1996.
Exchange: AA4LR Bill GA
Single Operator, Low Power, Low Antennas, 1 hour operating time
band QSOs mults
____________________________
20SSB 4
40SSB 8
80SSB 0
____________________________
total: 12 7 claimed score: 84
Equipment:
Kenwood TS-430S
Heil BM-10 with #4 element
Murch UT 2000 tuner
Antenna:
125' doublet at 15-20 feet, fed with (mostly) open wire
Comments:
February 3 was my birthday, so I though I'd have some fun and work
the sprint. Boy, was I wrong.
20m was nearly gone. Heard several stations I couldn't work, like
K7SS/KH6. Went down to 40m, and it was almost as bad. You know
40m has gone long when you can't hear both sides of a domestic QSO.
After 20 minutes on 20, and 30 minutes on 40m, I decided to try my
luck on 80m! Ten minutes of tuning found absolutely no Sprinters, just
pig farmers. At that point, I decided that this wasn't much fun, and
went upstairs and rejoined my family.
Come on, Sunspots!
Bill Coleman, AA4LR Mail: aa4lr@radio.org
Quote: "Man will never fly in a thousand years!"
-- Wilbur Wright, 1902
|