[3830] NA Sprint CW N3BB HP

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                    NA Sprint CW Contest - September

Call: N3BB
Operator(s): N3BB
Station: N3BB

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

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Op Time
---------------------
   80:  103        
   40:  149        
   20:   93        
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Total:  345    Mults = 47  Total Score = 16,215

Club: 

Team: Austin Heatwave

Comments:

Had my best start ever. Everything clicked, with F7 CQs answered most of the
time and most jump balls won to start a couplet. The Thursday night NS
practices paid off. We had some rain the last few days and my line noise was
gone. Everything worked well. But when twenty meters stopped producing much
response in the second hour, things fell off as I was "working out" forty
meters. I tried eighty meters on the second radio starting at 0210Z but the
band was noisy and not open well, the rate suffered and I seemed to be caught
between twenty which was not producing hardly any SO2R responses and eighty
which was very difficult here.

I ended up deciding to focus on forty but trying to do what I could on eighty,
and actually ended up with decent early activity on eighty with the louder
stations. The band opened and improved until eighty became the better band and
I was sending "F7 CQs" on forty with little response, but there still were the
occasional stations there doing the same and so got some responses. One of
those infrequent forty meter responses was a station in Greenland, of all
places, so that was a rare multiplier at 0330Z or so. After that, only "TV Bob"
called me on forty and I ended up SO1R-ing on eithty meters the final minutes
moving up and down every five KHz calling endless CQs, which brought some
answers. I missed several of the west coast stations on eithty meters the last
hour as I kept losing jump balls when they went back to stronger, closer
stations. 

We had organized two Sprint teams, the Austin Heatwave, named for the dreadful
summer we had this year, plus the all low power Austin LP Hotshots, also named
after the hot summer. So thanks for all the people who signed up, and the
increased activity which comes from all the teams is noticeable. 

Here are some numbers:


  HOUR   80CW    40CW    20CW    TOTAL   ACCUM
  ----  ------  ------  ------   -----   -----
    0       0      48      68     116     116
    1       0      58      25      83     199
    2      49      31       0      80     279
    3      54      12       0      66     345

  TOTAL   103     149      93

Multipliers, as worked in order:

La      Tn      Ct      Nc      Ne      Mn      Ia      Wy      Mt      Id
Ca      Va      Tx      Nv      Ny      Wv      Ms      VP9     Ga      OX
Pa      Nj      Ma      Oh      Md      In      Nh      Nm      Mi      
vE3     Or      Me      Fl      Ar      Wi      Sd      Il      Vt      
Wa      Co      Mo      De      vE1     Ks      Al      Ut      Ok    

Never heard a KY or RI at all. Ditto any of the VEs other than one VO1 and
several VE3s. Missed SC with W4OC out or action for the night. In fact,I never
heard any of the missed mults at all....worked all that I heard.

The Sprint is so much fun. It's interesting to hear the "grand ole' bears" who
hibernate and then come out for the Sprints....guys like N5KO, N6TR, N5TJ,
N2IC, N6MJ, and the Gator. Amazing what these folks can do to turn it on. Great
stuff.  

Thanks to the Boring Radio Club, the NCJ, and the 3830 team for support of the
Sprint and reporting. 

Jim N3BB


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