[3830] NA Sprint SSB W4LT HP

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                    NA Sprint SSB Contest - August

Call: W4LT
Operator(s): W4LT
Station: W4LT

Class: Single Op HP
QTH: FL
Operating Time (hrs): 3.7

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Op Time
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   80:   20        
   40:   65        
   20:  108        
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Total:  193    Mults = 46  Total Score = 8,878

Club: Florida Contest Group

Team: FCG Sprint Virgins

Comments:

Rig : Elecraft K-Line

         Antennas : A3s @ 40ft - 2 1/2waves in phase for 40m/short dipole for
80m @ 38 ft

          Soapbox : 

My first Sprint at the invitation of K9PG/The Mighty Dipolio and must admit it
was quite fun! I actually made 20 whole QSO's on 80!  Wow!

Just figuring out the protocol made my entry less than serious, but this is a
really great time on the radio!  We should do it more often! Quarterly, maybe?

I really like the QSY rule and the four hour format a lot! 

Thought I had the rules understood, but the small nuances like why your call
sign is sent first or last escaped me, so all my pre programmed N1MMPlus
automation went out the window within the first 10 minutes as I figured out and
learned the "protocol" of the contest.  So mostly live voice and
manual non ESM logging, as my pre programmed DVK messages and macros didnt
apply to contest protocol reality and I didnt have time to recreate them
because, well, because I was having so much fun without them! 

This contest seems to attract the die hard contesting cream of the crop.  Many
excellent ops with excellent signals involved, and listening to their exchanges
is an education in QSO working efficiency.  As usual in a phone contest, some
guys think that all knobs to the right indicate great signals, however, not so!
 

Very enjoyable time, worked many friends as well.  We will be back for a
sophomore try in the winter, which will give me the ability to actually hear
signals on 80 meters, as the summer thunderstorms make for 20 over S9 QRN on 80
and 40 down here in Florida.  

73 - W4LT-Lu (and yes, its spelled L-U not L-O-U: After all, I'm Spanish not
French!)


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