[3830] NA Sprint CW K5ZD HP

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                    NA Sprint CW Contest

Call: K5ZD
Operator(s): K5ZD
Station: K5ZD

Class: Single Op HP
QTH: W1
Operating Time (hrs): 4
Radios: SO2R

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Op Time
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   80:  136        
   40:  115        
   20:   61        
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Total:  312    Mults = 41  Total Score = 12,792

Club: 

Team: YCCC#1

Comments:

Was planning to go low power, but bands sounded so strange at the start that
turned the amp on just minutes before the contest.  Glad I did!

The WPX RTTY contest made 40m a challenge.  That contest is getting too big for
the Sprint to compete with. Especially in Europe -- making it even more
difficult for us in the Northeast.  The PACC contest also added some loud guys
calling CQ contest.

Bands were long almost from the start.  Glad I did 40 at the beginning to get a
few "close" guys.  Went to 80 the earliest I ever have and again was able to get
some W2/W3 guys that got real weak later. 

Heard people working guys that would have been new mults, but didn't get a shot
at them.  WV, AL, VE9

You could sure tell who the hard core SO2R guys were.  K5TR and N6TR (and
others) seemed to be CQing all the time on the off band.  However, in this
contest, with activity so concentrated on one band at a time, there wasn't much
to pick up.  I usually did better to stay focused on one band rather than try to
get fancy.

I vote that the Phone and CW Sprints go back to their "traditional" dates.  CW
first weekend of Feb and Phone the second.

Randy


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