NA Sprint CW Contest - February
Call: K3KU
Operator(s): K3KU
Station: K3KU
Class: Single Op LP
QTH: MD
Operating Time (hrs): 4:00
Summary:
Band QSOs Op Time
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80: 81 95
40: 74 90
20: 34 50
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Total: 189 Mults = 41 Total Score = 7,749
Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club
Team:
Comments:
As late as Friday morning I was thinking to skip the Sprint. Not that I
wouldn't do well -- with one 100W radio and a 200-ft dipole I'm content just to
have fun). I felt that I would not have fun. Nonetheless, I set things up
Friday afternoon, and rushed home Saturday night fast enough to be QRV 10
minutes before the start. I even managed to work one QSO in the BCQP before
Sprint began.
After it was over, I looked at my posting from last year:
"Lost almost every jump ball...; CQ in my face; sparse answers to my own
CQs... This is not a contest for little pistols. At 0400Z I was glad to shut
down, and I was thinking I had not had fun.
"Now, I'm already having second thoughts."
Had I read that BEFORE the 'Test, I probably would not have tried. Same ole
thing. Fewer operating mistakes and fumbles than last year, but score is still
down.
I still feel like this is the
Loudest-100-Guys-See-Who-Can-Work-Each-Other-The-Most-Times-On-Three-Bands
Contest. Not much for us little pistols to do. I'm curious about how many
different call signs are in those almost-400 QSO logs, and about the
distribution of the upper echelon's QSOs among themselves and the rest of us.
Notice that in CQ !60M CW test just one week before, I made 274 QSOs in 43
States/Provinces plus 5 Countries (all in the Americas) in 4 hours op time.
That was certainly more fun.
But I'll probably be here again next year.
73, Art K3KU
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