[SECC] Last Week's Contests Claimed Scores

[John Laney]

Hello all:

I have received no reports of contest activity within the club from last 
weekend, although I did not thoroughly review the report of the Spartan 
Sprint on Monday night.  My bad.  Hope someone was able to participate. 
  I had forgotten that Weesie and I were attending the show in Columbus 
of the touring company of the Broadway play "Rent," so I missed the SP 
this  month.

QRP Telephone Area Code Sprint

K4BAI  28 QSOs, all CW, 26 TAC mults = 2912 + 500 bonus points for one 
QSO with N3EPA = 3412.  Time:  1.1 of the 6 hours.  SO2R.

Weesie bought a new car (a Mazda MPV) Saturday and that took up the 
first part of the TAC Sprint and the latter part was taken up with 
eating dinner and going to see "Rent."  Seemed to have pretty good 
conditions on 40.  No contest signals heard on 15 or 10.  20 was really 
poor.  SO2R setup still works very well at QRP levels.

I heard no one calling for the World Radio Friends QSO Party.  This was 
even worse participation than I had imagined.  I thought there would 
have been a few stations trying, but, during the time I had to listen 
over the weekend, I heard none.

I did work about 51 UK and European portable stations on 20 M in their 
FD and NFD.  All on 20 meters.  No signals heard from Europe on 15. 
Didn't get on when 40 or 80 would have been open to Europe.  Nice to 
help those guys out with their FD.  We usually work a few Europeans from 
our FD site, but the exchange is such that it isn't as easy for them to 
catch on for ARRL FD QSOs as it is for us to give them RST + serial 
numbers in their FD.

73,


John, K4BAI.