[SECC] NA Sprint CW AA5JF HP

[Bill Coleman]

Andy,

Yes, the Sprint is very difficult for beginners. 

The contest you are thinking about was the Internet sprINT, where you would send the name of the previous person you contacted, which was totally crazy.

> On Sep 13, 2020, at 1:09 PM, Andrew Goss via SECC <secc at contesting.com> wrote:
> 
> It looks like there are some impressive results from the club. Congratulations!
> 
> This really isn't for the beginner--a split second hesitation on my part decoding the call, and I would almost certainly loose the jump-ball. Impressive operating skills were very much on display. Just a part-time effort here, as I had some other obligations with the family, and decided to go to bed long before it was over: made one set of contacts on 80M and decided fighting the noise wouldn't be worth it. 
> 
> Also, is this a West Coast contest, or was the skip just really much longer than usual? Even on 40M more than half my QSO seemed to be in the west.
> 
> BTW: I have this memory from when I was a teenager that there was a contest that required the operator send the serial number of the previous QSO (which then had to be copied as part of the exchange). Did I make that up or was the once part of the Sprint or some other contest? In any case, I'm glad that wasn't part of the challenge last night.
> 
> Andy
> 
>                     NA Sprint CW Contest - September
> 
> Call: AA5JF
> Operator(s): AA5JF
> Station: AA5JF
> 
> Class: Single Op HP
> QTH: GA
> Operating Time (hrs): 1.5
> 
> Summary:
> Band  QSOs  Op Time
> ---------------------
>   80:  2        
>   40:  45        
>   20:  14        
> ---------------------
> Total:  61    Mults = 24  Total Score = 1,464
> 
> Club: South East Contest Club
> 
> Team: 
> 
> Comments:
> 
> First time in this contest since the late 1980s, and it's still hard. Sending
> code from the keyboard using function keys, plus all the other logging
> conveniences, made this easier than 30 years ago. But then everyone has those
> advantages too: wow this was fast. My skills still are not quite up to it,
> especially when the penalty for not getting the call immediately often means
> missing the QSO entirely. For me that was a real problem on 20m where the skip
> was long, and I wasn't hearing east coast stations really at all. Hope to be
> back with a better result next time.
> 
> 
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