[SESprint] K4AAA CW Sprint Audio

[Bill Coleman]

On 9/25/02 3:49 AM, Bill Fisher, W4AN at w4an@contesting.com wrote:

>Hey guys,
>
>I am going to put up my entire log and contest audio on my web site.  I
>can't find the floppy with the log right now, but I have the first 15
>minutes of audio up there now. 

Wow! I encourage everyone to find a quiet time and listen to some of 
this. The audio quality isn't great (I'm sure it's the compression and 
Bill's radios really dont' sound that bad), but it's still interesting 
listening.

Some impressions:

* For all the QRQ CW, I was surprised that I could actually follow what 
was happening. K4AAA still sounds like a machine gun going off, though.

* Not as much two-ear listening in the first 15 minutes. I had imagined 
Bill kept one ear on one radio and one ear on the other the entire 
contest. Not so. Much of the time he's got both ears on one radio -- even 
times he's just listening to the sidetone. That surprised me. But it 
doesn't take him any time to get his bearings on that second rig -- 
sometimes it's just for a second or two.

* Bill tunes fast. You can tell by the whoop-whoop of the signal as he 
tunes past and back to it. He tends to overshoot, but it doesn't take him 
long to get right on the signal.

* Hard to tell from the compression, but the filter sounds really narrow.

>My hope is that this may help some of you guys for February by listening
>to how I operate the contest.  

Bill, thanks for posting this. It's really great to hear the sprint in 
the hands of an expert.

Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL        Mail: aa4lr@arrl.net
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