[NCC] K8MR Sprint

[tleek8az]

Hiya...

Are you still planning to trudge "up nawth" for ARRL in 2 weeks?   Just
trying to get the preliminary Crew schedule set up.

Does NOT look like we'll yet have 2 radios per band ..... Greg's switch is
still a work in progress.  Might get to Beta test for the SSB weekend.

Plan is to do Multi-Two both modes.  Probably not super competitive with
only one radio per band.  But should be fun.

Enjoy the sun.  45 degrees here today -- with rain in the forecast.  Should
help melt more snow .... Was up to 24" on the deck, but now down to 16" and
falling.

73,
Tom

On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 8:30 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 pileup
> below 040. But once K1N moved to another band/mode, 40 was great. I missed
> all the same mults as everybody else. No Wyoming, not so unusual, but
> missing Connecticut?!
>
> A lot more FL activity than last year, when I was also here, and it was
> just N4OX and me. This year I don't know if I'll be able to crack 3th place
> in the state! But it's still better to be drinking my morning coffee today
> out in the sunshine.
>
> 73  -  Jim  K8MR
>
> ==================
>
> Good to work lots of MRRC/NCC folks. A bit odd not being on the MRRC/NCC
> team, but I offered my team services to the station host, and my offer was
> accepted. At least having KU8E on the MRRC/NCC team evened out the karma.
>
> 73  -  Jim
>
>
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