[UK-CONTEST] G4PIQ & The EU CW Sprint

[Andy Cook, G4PIQ]

My first CW sprint - did one SSB event back in 1996 I think. Good fun, but
started off very badly and took a lot of scrabling to get back on course.
Started too low in the band in the muddle of all the other contests which
were running - I think I counted at least 4!

20m seemed in particularly poor form. I have to say that I didn't feel too
far out of the activity on 80m - a slightly later start would be no harm,
but I'm not sure it needs to move 2/3 hours. Probably more important to
focus on getting more folks on - not that Dave & I2UIY in particular haven't
been beating the drum hard. Activiity is currently far too little to let the
contest meet its full potential.

Good to see the UK activity and some good scores.

    Callsign Used : G4PIQ/P


   BAND   Raw QSOs   Valid QSOs   Points
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   80CW       37          37         37
   40CW       50          50         50
   20CW       62          62         61
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 Totals      149         149        148

Rig : 2 x FT1000MP + Alpha 87A + Titan
Ant : 20m - TH5 @ 24m; 40m - 402CD @ 24m; 80m - Delta Loop @ 23m.