On 9/11/2022 7:14 AM, Pete Smith N4ZR wrote:
Kind of a mixed experience. My first Sprint in maybe 5 years, and I had
real trouble getting into the rhythm of the thing. If it hadn't been
for an N1MM+ message file with some built-in helps, I would have been
really at sea. Finally packed it in at 90 minutes, without ever getting
to 80.
Hi Pete,
Sprint is, by far, the most challenging contest format, at least for me.
It took me a long time to get close to 300 Qs, and I think I might have
broken it once or twice. Each year, my 1941-vintage brain falls a bit
farther behind.
I was disappointed by the level of operating - particularly by those who
continued calling despite the called station having asked for a
particular station (with a partial call), as well as those failing to
wait until the previous QSO was really completed (with an "R" or other
ack). On the other hand, I made a lot of mistakes too.
Depending on who's hearing who, it can be hard to tell who's TXing --
whether it's the CQing station or the callers. And in Sprint, he who
hesitates is lost! Thanks to lightning static, I needed more than a
half-dozen number fills; when that happens, I'll send dits until other
callers have stopped, then ask for the fill. Only twice did I fail to
get it, so those stations lost a Q.
104 Q's in 90 minutes, 38 mults = 3,952 points. K3/KPA-1500, Carolina
Windom at ~40 feet (my tribander is down in the back yard)
FWIW, when we worked, three times, I think, you had a pretty reasonable
signal. Don't remember our 80M QSO.
73, Jim K9YC
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