N4ZR CW Sprint Score

[Pete Smith]

        Team/Club : PVRC #1


   BAND   Raw QSOs   Valid QSOs   Points   Mults   
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   80CW       77          77         77       5 
   40CW       95          95         95      10 
   20CW       81          81         81      25 
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 Totals      253         253        253      40 


    Final Score = 10120 points.


My first time with high power *and* running the full 4 hours.  Bettered my
previous best by 70 QSOs, and my first time over 10K points.  It's a whole
new level of "fluster factor" at this rate, and next time I hope I'll do
better.  Low point was having to ask some poor AB5 to repeat his call 4
times before I got "5" rather than "6", and calling N5KO several times on
the TR Log equivalent of the wrong VFO (in CQ rather than S&P mode).  High
point was a 70-QSO last hour on 80, where the new antenna was a big plus.
Directivity isn't terribly useful in the Sprint, though - often I didn't get
the array pointed at the station until it was time to send "TU."

The setup:

         TS-930/SB-220
20-40M:  C-4 at 98 feet (rotable dipole on 40)
80M:     4-el K3LR-style parasitic lazy-vee array for 80
         TR Log 5.95


73, Pete Smith N4ZR
n4zr at contesting.com 
West (bigawd) Virginia


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