Never 100w again folks. The Sprint is a QRO contest from Georgia. My hat's
off to AA4GA who always does it low power. 20m from here at 00Z is the pits.
70% of the Qs are back scatter. At 100w, it's impossible to work these back
scatter QSOs.
Saturday summary:
4:30am: Wake up and make the 1.5 hour trip to the mountain contest QTH.
Saturday: Raise the 402CD to 115' by myself. Solder all of the connectors
on the two 15m towers. Other misc. junk.
7:30pm: Arrive at N4RJ after grabbing a Guido-Burritto at the Loganville
quick-stop store.
8:00pm: Start... sorta.
12:00pm: Couldn't turn off the radio fast enough.
KF4BTH turned out to be harder than I thought it would be to send. Many
mistakes sending it. Putting LOTS-O-SPACE in the call and the name helped.
Beat up fingers from tower work didn't help.
80 69
40 86
20 38
T 193 39 7,527
If it would increase participation... I think a 100w box for the Sprint is a
great idea. If it doesn't change participation, then what's the point?
73
>From barry@w2up.wells.com (Barry Kutner) Mon Sep 11 01:02:52 1995
From: barry@w2up.wells.com (Barry Kutner) (Barry Kutner)
Subject: WAE score
Message-ID: <H8i9aD1w165w@w2up.wells.com>
Band QSO QTC Cty
80 18 18 10
40 57 56 19
20 404 404 45
15 19 19 9
10 yeah, right
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498 497 83 = 203,975 (about 10-11 hours op time)
Comments:
Overall, mediocre condx. As usual, 40 was best just as the contest was
ending. 15 meters was strange - Saturday afternoon a few EU beaming South
Africa. On Sunday several LOUD stations, but very little activity. At one
point F2BS was 10 over 9 on 15, and was the only European on the band!
Last 2 letters - drove me nuts! Seems the Italians universally do the
last 2 letter routine. The Spaniards were next, then a smattering of
everyone else. At times, I came back to these guys " Xray Zulu make your
call," but nobody laughed except me.
Seems to have been less begging for QTC than on CW. A couple of stations
went thru following scenario -
EU: Any QTC?
Me: QTC 22/10
EU: OK, no QTC, QRZ
Can't figure that one out...
One point of embarassment - Seems a lot of folks knew me by name, but I
didn't know them. Is my notoriety from the Contest Reflector, or
something else? I apologize to anyone I should have known :.)
73 Barry
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Barry N. Kutner, W2UP Internet: barry@w2up.wells.com
Newtown, PA Packet Radio: W2UP @ WB3JOE.#EPA.PA.USA.NA
Packet Cluster: W2UP >WB2R (FRC)
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>From Steven Affens <k3sa@access.digex.net> Mon Sep 11 02:29:37 1995
From: Steven Affens <k3sa@access.digex.net> (Steven Affens)
Subject: Need RUFZ again
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950910212839.23066A-100000@access2.digex.net>
It is on the K2MM link on the PVRC Home Page
http://www.access.digex.net/~k3sa/pvrc.html
73 de K3SA
Steven C. Affens
K3SA@ACCESS.DIGEX.NET
On Sun, 10 Sep 1995, Craig Cook wrote:
> I have corrupted my rufz files beyond repair, may I please have the ftp
> sites again? I AM LOOKING FOR THE ZIP VERSION. I got it the first time from
> maspar.maspar.com/pub/k2mm/ but no way now. I can not connect. Please reply
> DIRECT and thank you.
> ccook@agora.rdrop.com <N7ENU>
>
>
>From KQWB55A@prodigy.com (MR STEVEN K NACE) Mon Sep 11 02:55:40 1995
From: KQWB55A@prodigy.com (MR STEVEN K NACE) (MR STEVEN K NACE)
Subject: CW Sprint Operating "Techniques"
Message-ID: <013.01100421.KQWB55A@prodigy.com>
Hey Guys: What an interesting Sprint that was. Lots of wondering if
finally making the
Top Ten was "valid". Well, that's not the point of this posting.
My question is this:
I call CQ Sprint and receive an answer. I give that station my
exchange and then listen
to his reply BUT, after I get his number, I QSY off to find another
QSO.
Now, common courtesy tells me that I should "dit" the guy so he knows
he can proceed
on with his own solicitation. But on the other hand, why wait?
so, please respond with your opinions and I will summarize them and
re-post, if any
interest exists in this so-called operating technique.
CU in SSB w/ amp on and no memory keyers in use.
Steve KN5H
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