[NCC] K8MR Sprint
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Sun Feb 8 08:41:46 EST 2015
put {RUN} and {SP} at the end of your macros, it keeps the sequence straight for ESM......there used to be some definitions on the MM website....
> On 2/8/2015 8:30:18 AM, Jim K8MR via NCC (ncc at contesting.com) wrote:
> > The 3830 site is acting oddly - which may also be why guys have
> multiple postings. So anyway:
>
> 80: 72
> 40: 117
> 20: 120
>
> 309 X 44 = 15396
>
> Team: SE Sprint Coalition
>
> Fist, a big thank you to George, K5KG, for having me over to operate
> the Sprint. Waterfront QRP daylight operations in NAQP etc are cool,
> but QRP Sprints after dark are not my idea of fun.
>
> Only problem, not major, was with logging. George is a WriteLog guy,
> I'm not. So I decided I'd bring in my laptop with N1MM and just plug
> into his radios. Unfortunately, after spending some at home in the
> afternoon practicing N1MM ESM operation, it turned out I had to keep
> George's Microham interface in line to handle the antenna switching.
> Naturally we couldn't figure out how to get that to talk to my
> computer, so I didn't have computer-radio communications. I realized
> about 10 QSOs in that ESM in a Sprint doesn't work so well when N1MM
> doesn't know you've QSY'd. But I ran pretty smoothly without ESM,
> probably fewer mistakes that it would have been with it.
>
> Florida propagation is fun, at least on 40 and 20. Forty was grim at
> first, with Sprint sandwiched between the RTTY above 050 and the K1N
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