[SESprint] K4AAA CW Sprint Audio

[Jim White, K4OJ]

the best part is the reassurance that even Bill does not always work the 
guys he calls - this to me was worth the initial listen!

K4OJ




Bill Coleman wrote:

>On 9/25/02 3:49 AM, Bill Fisher, W4AN at w4an@contesting.com wrote:
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>>Hey guys,
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>>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. 
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>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.
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>Some impressions:
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>* 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.
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>* 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.
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>* 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.
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>* Hard to tell from the compression, but the filter sounds really narrow.
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>>My hope is that this may help some of you guys for February by listening
>>to how I operate the contest.  
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>Bill, thanks for posting this. It's really great to hear the sprint in 
>the hands of an expert.
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>Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL        Mail: aa4lr@arrl.net
>Quote: "Not within a thousand years will man ever fly!"
>            -- Wilbur Wright, 1901
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