WR3O Sprint Results

[WR3O at music-city.tdec.state.tn.us]

                              SPRINT SUMMARY SHEET

     Contest Date : 10-Sep-95

    Callsign Used : WR3O
         Operator : WR3O

         Category : SO 500W 

 Default Exchange : Ser# KIRK TN

             Name : Kirk Pickering
          Address : 4502 Scenic View Drive
   City/State/Zip : 37143
          Country : United States


   BAND   Raw QSOs   Valid QSOs   Points   Mults   Countries     IC-761
 ______________________________________________________________  AL-811

   80CW       55          55         55       5         0       Inv V 85'
   40CW       69          68         68      11         1          "
   20CW       40          40         40      18         0       PRO57A 100'
 ______________________________________________________________

 Totals      164         163        163      34         1 


    Final Score = 5705 points.


Second try at Sprint.  I should have paid more attention to getting
mults, and not just working the loud ones.  Noisy conditions made copy
of weak stns on the low bands tough.  Still did better than last year, 
and made my Q goals.  First contest ever with TR software.  Only stumbled 
badly a few times.  This contest separates the men from the boys, and I 
know which category I'm in right now.  Does this CW stuff get easier if 
you stick at it?

See you next time.  

73, Kirk  WR3O   ( WR3O at music-city.tdec.state.tn.us )

>From H. Ward Silver" <hwardsil at seattleu.edu  Mon Sep 11 19:39:42 1995
From: H. Ward Silver" <hwardsil at seattleu.edu (H. Ward Silver)
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 1995 11:39:42 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Derekmania
Message-ID: <Pine.3.07.9509111142.D26716-a100000 at bach.seattleu.edu>


What seems to be bugging people is the "elite" tag put on the Derekians. 
As if they are saying, "Lookit, we can beat you even if we run low power,
use awful calls, and funny names...neener, neener, neener!"  I don't feel
like that was the point at all...or at least very much.  Us low-power
types have been saying, "C'mon, C'mon" for awhile, and so they did! 
What's the big hairy deal?

We've been having contests-within-a-contest up here in the corner for
quite a while and nobody ever gets upset.  Of course, we never win either ;-)

This thread is being whistled dead for "Excessive Attribution of Intent"!

73, Ward/Ed/Jerry/Homer/Edward, N0AX



>From mraz at rdxsunhost.aud.alcatel.com (Kris I. Mraz)  Mon Sep 11 19:54:31 1995
From: mraz at rdxsunhost.aud.alcatel.com (Kris I. Mraz) (Kris I. Mraz)
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 95 13:54:31 CDT
Subject: TS-940 Battery?
Message-ID: <9509111854.AA13368 at maverick.aud.alcatel.com>

I haven't been contesting from home lately due to my TS-940 being
down. The radio goes haywire when I turn it on. I think this is due to
dead batteries on the main controlling CPU. I checked with the local
radio repair/supplier and these batteries cost $16 each! They are 3V
lithium batteries about the size of a quarter. I'm not sure of the
manufacturer but the Kenwood parts lists shows it as a BR2032. Does
anyone know of a cheaper source for these batteries? Or is this a
typical price?

Direct responses, please.


73
Kris AA5UO
mraz at aud.alcatel.com

>From steve.steltzer at paonline.com (WF3T)  Mon Sep 11 19:07:07 1995
From: steve.steltzer at paonline.com (WF3T) (WF3T)
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 1995 19:07:07 +0100
Subject: RUFZ anomalies


        Tack is quite right about Rufz being addictive. And of course, being
a CONTESTER, posting the scores makes it even worse. Now, while I realize
I'm not "Sprint Elite" class, I've kinda liked to think I was a pretty fair
cw op. However, after looking at the posted scores, my first thought was
maybe I should take up golf, knitting or anything else other than
contesting! But a 2nd look at the speeds shown says, no way! While DL4MM's
method may not come out exactly in wpm to the speed shown divided 5, my ears
tell me it's close. Some of the top scores show copying 99 wpm! Hmmm, the
last I remember hearing, the world record is still 72 wpm to write (or type)
it down.
Being familiar with the hassles of getting timed events such as cw to run
the same speed on different computers, my first thought was "sure, I'm
running it on a 90 mhz pentium". Next step, install it on the laptop. Hmmm,
hard to tell on barely audible laptop speaker, but it's in the ballpark,
anyway. OK, as the programmers here will know, Windows event timing is
another whole ball game, so, start Windows 3.1 and run it. (full screen)
MM's a pretty good programmer,
but it did seem just a tad slower and I scored about a k higher.  Geez, golf
is looking better and better. 
        
        HOWEVER, here's the kicker - I happen to be in the middle of
developing a Windows program, and one day after working several hours, I
took a break with rufz. Put it in a window so I still had my developement
envirenment up. Say what?? My score jumped from a previous high of 26k-300
to 35k-367!!!  Aha! Playing around some more, I discovered by changing the
multi - tasking settings, you can slow it down so much I got bored, missed
EASY calls and still scored 70k points! I don't remember exactly but the
speed showed upwards of 600!
 
        SAVE THE FLAMES, I'M NOT ACCUSING ANYONE OF DELIBERATE CHEATING! A
lot of people run EVERYTHING out of Windows. And I KNOW the guys on the
score list are much better ops than I am anyway. But what say, rufz
afficiandos, are you running it from DOS? in a window? under Deskview? OS2?
What processor and operating system? Or should I call the local pro for lessons?


                                                        73, Steve, WF3T

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