Having finished with my finals, I decided to operate the 50MHz Spring
Sprint. It seems to have been largely a waste of time. We had propagation.
In the four hours of the sprint, I worked North Carolina, Florida, Minnesota,
North Dakota, Texas, and I got part of the way through a CW QSO with a
station in Ontario, and part of the way through a phone QSO with a station in
Illinois. It seemed like there weren't many stations on the air. I didn't
even HEAR another station in Texas until the last hour of the contest!
The last time I operated this contest, in 1997, my score was 58 times higher
than this. I actually made more QSOs in the 432MHz Sprint this year! Where
was everyone?!? What happened? Did people not know about the contest?
Is _absolutely everyone_ at Dayton? Are single band contests just not worth
doing?
Callsign Used : N5XU
Operator : KM5FA
Category : Single Operator
Default Exchange : EM10
BAND Raw QSOs Valid QSOs Points Mults
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6CW 1 1 1 1
6SSB 10 9 9 8
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Totals 11 10 10 9
Final Score = 90 points.
Grids worked: EL09, EM10, EM30, EM90, EN17, EN33, EN34, FM05, FM14
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Kenneth E. Harker "Vox Clamantis in Deserto" kharker@cs.utexas.edu
University of Texas at Austin Amateur Radio Callsign: KM5FA
Department of the Computer Sciences President, UT Amateur Radio Club
Taylor Hall TAY 2.124 Maintainer of the Linux Laptop Home Page
Austin, TX 78712-1188 USA http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/
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