I feel soo sorry that once a year, for a whopping maybe 2 hours, that a
roundtable of old farts that sit on a single freq every night for 12
hours a day, talking about nothing much at all, have some interference.
NOT!
Joe WB9SBD
On 9/18/2011 9:17 AM, George Fremin III wrote:
> As a somewhat active Phone contest operator, I have felt the SSB
> sprint should have been killed off long ago. Of all the contests on
> the calendar I do not think there is another one that is more
> disruptive to activity on the bands. I do not think it makes
> contesters look very good.
>
> I used to do this contest and I have put together many winning phone
> sprint teams. But during a phone sprint many years ago with 30
> minutes to go in the contest, while on a top 5 score pace, I noticed
> how our activity was affecting the normal users of 80 meters and I
> stopped operating the contest. I think I have made a hand full of
> contacts since.
>
> In my opinion the phone sprint does nothing to improve our image.
>
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