[UK-CONTEST] EU Spring CW Sprint GM4AFF

[Cooper, Stewart]

I struggled a bit with this one, but it was an experience, and probably improved my CW skills a little (which couldn't get worse). This contest certainly isn't an CQ-fest and the faster ops (CT1ILT etc) make it very hard to copy their details. I wonder if they get any casual callers? In spite of this, his score is big. DL's were thin on the ground. I worked one UA who was in the Sprint at the start on 20m, but when I called him on 80m he'd decided to start operating in another contest!
BAND QSO DUP POINTS AVG

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80 44 0 44 1.00

40 43 0 43 1.00

20 42 0 42 1.00

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TOTAL 129 0 129 1.00

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TOTAL SCORE : 129




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From: uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com on behalf of Dave Lawley
Sent: Sat 14/04/2007 21:01
To: UK Contest Reflector
Subject: [UK-CONTEST] Eu Sprint - Apology



This is an apology to any uk-contest reflectorites who I may have
tempted to have a go in the Eu CW Sprint today.

A few years ago we started getting QRM in the last two hours of the
contest from the Russian WSEM contest. An approach to the Russians
proved fruitless, so we decided for last year's contest to swap the
spring phone and CW weekends. At the same time we moved the start time
one hour later, to reduce the disadvantage suffered by those of us in
western Europe. Before, when the contest finished we were still in
daylight and this made 80m QSOs especially hard.

Well, guess what? The Russians have gone and moved their damned WSEM
contest a week early - it started an hour into the CW sprint today, and
has totally trashed it. Complete waste of time.

The North American sprints have a great level of activity and very high
skill levels, with the leaders making up to 400 QSOs in the four-hour
contest period. We're told that contesting is on the increase in Europe
but we have never been able to achieve comparable levels of activity in
the Eu sprint and I'm forced to the conclusion that, with some
exceptions of course, Eu contesters cannot achieve the skill levels
needed for sprint contesting, they seem to prefer just pushing F1 all
day and if the cluster can find your mults for you, so much the better.

Even though we don't get the same levels of activity in the Eu sprints
that they get in North America, I usually enjoy the sprint but WSEM has
completely ruined it this time.

Dave G4BUO

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