[RTTY] SPRINT

Jerry Flanders jeflanders at comcast.net
Tue Oct 12 13:35:50 EDT 2004


Reminds me of "Musical Chairs" game.  I worked 3-4 Q's in this contest a 
couple years ago before I discovered I had to move after every CQ'ed contact.

Some guys probably love that rule, but it was too much chaos for me. If I 
have to work that hard to have fun I will just skip it.

Jerry W4UK

At 03:40 10/12/04, roofus wrote:
>Well I got my clock cleaned in this one and I guess that's good to keep the
>ego in line.  This was my first SPRINT and not knowing what to expect I was
>over whelmed right from the get go and that soon led to frustration.  I
>didn't care for the hop scotch freq changes and I guess I'm just a meat and
>potatoes operator at this time.  I was confused by the dead silence at first
>and thought I had read the rules wrong but when I checked later found some
>activity so jumped in but this was not my cup of tea.  Maybe after I get a
>few more contests under my belt I'll try another sprint but for now I'll
>leave them to you pros.  The name I used (DUH) sure fit but it caused a call
>for a repeat on almost every contact so that was a wash too.
>
>TOTAL SCORE was 420
>
>See you next weekend in JARTS,
>
>The new guy,
>Dennis KI8U
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