[UK-CONTEST] EU Phone Sprint this Saturday

[Dave Lawley]

The first European Sprint contest of the season takes place this coming 
Saturday 15.00-18.59z, SSB on 20, 40 and 80m. The main feature of the 
sprints is that after CQing and making a QSO you must QSY at least 2kHz 
before your next contact.

This means you cannot simply sit on a frequency and CQ all the time as 
in other contests. What typically happens is that you tune around, find 
someone CQing, call them and make the QSO. They QSY so you stay on the 
frequency and make another QSO then you have to move, and so it goes on. 
Both callsigns must be given on each QSO and if you sign your call at 
the end of the exchange, it signals to anyone else who has tuned in that 
you will be staying on the frequency and are ready to be called by the 
next station.

Activity for the first hour is primarily on 20m, with more and more 
stations moving to 40m during the second hour, and the last hour is on 
80m. We here in western Europe are at a bit of a propagation 
disadvantage in the last hour so the more Gs that participate, the 
better we'll all find things towards the end.

There is a superb web site which has been completely redesigned by 
Royce, M0RHI and Peter, M3PHP. Please visit www.eusprint.com to view the 
full rules, past results and lots more useful information. The contest 
is supported by just about all major software including SD, DL2NBU, TR, 
Writelog, Win-Test, N1MM and plenty of others. Details and links for 
downloads are on the web site.

The CW sprint takes place the following Saturday, 16th April.

73, Dave G4BUO