I only had a little over an hour and planned to operate S&P to give out a
few reports. It was a fun contest but a little confusing.
By confusing I was operating S&P where I thought the procedure was to make
the QSO and QSY so the calling station could pick up the next contact. I was
surprised when I received my report and two or three stations would call me
on the calling station's frequency before he could send the QRZ for the next
call. I did not respond and moved on to the next station calling CQ. Unlike
other contests this happened several times. Something tells me Sprint
contests are win all you can as fast as you can and some may have been fast
on the trigger.
What blew my mind was how some stations had a large number QSO's in first
minutes and was only on QSO number 10. After the opening 30 minutes, things
seemed to settle down and things became a more orderly. It was fun.
I was using a pre-release version of W7AY's cocoaModem software and it
worked great even though not designed to support logging of the required
exchange data. I could give out the correct exchange but was only able to
log the other station's QSO number. For this reason I will not be submitting
a .log file. The cocoaModem contest interface worked perfect and let me
enjoy the contest for the limited operating time.
73 de Dick, AA5VU
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