[3830] NA Sprint CW K4RO HP

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                    NA Sprint CW Contest

Call: K4RO
Operator(s): K4RO
Station: K4RO

Class: Single Op HP
QTH: TN
Operating Time (hrs): 4
Radios: SO2R

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Op Time
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   80:  105        
   40:  123        
   20:   79        
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Total:  307    Mults = 42  Total Score = 12,894

Club: Tennessee Contest Group

Team: S.Sprint Coalition #1

Comments:

Congratulations to Tree on an unbelievable QSO number -- WOW.
I'm still struggling with using two radios in the Sprint.  I 
think I might still have scored better with one radio, but for 
the first time I actually experienced what Sprint SO2R is about.  
It's nothing at all like SS or NAQP or any other "sit and CQ" contest.
One thing was for sure, I felt REALLY BUSY the entire contest.
If I wasn't making a QSO, well at least I was CQing somewhere!
I still did constant S&P, but not with the same focus as I would
have had if I  wasn't trying to pay attention to a CQ frequency.  
These Sprint SO2R ops who can do both well are REALLY GOOD.

It's unnerving for a solid op to not QSL a solid QSO. I now
understand that they are trying to save time by moving on when
they've got the number, but I wish they wouldn't do that.  It
feels like poor form to just be abandoned, wondering if it was 
a good QSO or not.  I understand that some ops are now deleting 
these unconfirmed QSOs -- some in protest, and some in self-defense 
for not getting busted with a NIL QSO...  Of course, no one wants
to have their own QSO (and TIME) wasted.  Like Tree said, you're 
money ahead to not log it if you're not sure it was all OK.
Please guys, stick around until the end of the QSO to confirm.

Twenty meters was pretty useless here.  I thought I went to
eighty too early, but with the second radio staying busy, it 
wasn't like I had to abandon 40m.  TR-Log reported 60+ band
changes, which is about twice my previous number.  Someday
I will figure this out, possibly before Tree beaks 450! :-)

Thanks WB4QDA for the amplifier loan for the second radio.
The CW Sprint is still the most intense 4 hours of contesting
available to the Radio Op.

73

-Kirk  K4RO


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