[VHFcontesting] [222Activity] An idea for the sprints.

[David Olean]

Simple fix.....

21:01 (local)  RFI appears

21:01:30  Pull breaker for living room on the main circuit panel

21:01:30:04  Girls start screaming.

21:03:00  You go to living room and assess the situation. Tell them that 
the TCP/IP has failed and the ISP has been AWOL.  The LDMOS has been 
hydrofracted and any repairs     will have to wait for morning.

21:05           Brew some coffee while you are near the kitchen.

21:08            Enjoy the Sprint.


73

K1WHS


On 10/2/2020 7:20 AM, Joshua Arritt wrote:
> 2100 local.  I had my headphones one in the shack, loud, straining to hear
> the faintest signals in the poor tropo.
> 2101 local.  The girls turned on the new Samsung flat panel TV upstairs.
> S7 noise smacks my ears and I almost fall out of the chair.
> 2104 local.  I took the headphones off and got out a book.
>
> VY 73 DE KF4YLM
>
> On Fri, Oct 2, 2020 at 6:54 AM <w5zn at w5zn.org> wrote:
>
>> Gretings Dave and 222 gang.
>>
>> Well, I'll confess I bailed after two hours, around 9:00 PM local,
>> because I had worked all the folks I knew who were on but more
>> importantly I was ready to snooze! :-)). I didn't give it any further
>> thought until your email that got me thinking about this!
>>
>> Now that 222 has become a focus of several of us working toward WAS and
>> there is renewed interest on the band, especially with MS and EME for
>> some, it would have been good to fire up the EME station if for no other
>> reason than to check things out and have a few folks do the same.
>>
>> It would be good for me to do some advance planning for the Sprint. I
>> usually just fire up for an hour or so and then that is it but I like
>> your idea/suggestion.
>>
>> 73 Joel W5ZN
>>
>>
>> On 2020-10-01 15:01, David Olean wrote:
>>> It isn't much of an idea, more a suggestion, to not abandon the VHF
>>> sprints when activity dies down after the initial spurt of activity.
>>> I was not a big fan of opening up chat pages for coordination of
>>> contacts in VHF contests. My reasoning was that it favored stations
>>> that had good internet connectivity and penalized those that did not.
>>>
>>> That being said, we now have the ability to set up schedules for
>>> almost impossible contacts simply  by coordinating on internet sites
>>> dedicated to such things. So why did everyone bail out after an hour
>>> or so on the 222 Sprint?  The few diehards left were ones that I had
>>> already contacted.  It would have been great to try some long haul
>>> tropo contacts on CW or even FT4/FT8 with stations that are normally
>>> not in range. Trying and failing at a 400+ mile QSO with a 25 watt
>>> station or trying a meteor scatter contact is much more agreeable than
>>> spending an hour calling CQ and tuning around on a almost empty band
>>> with no takers and no results.  A few posts for skeds by several of
>>> the diehards also went unheeded towards the latter half of the
>>> sprint.  The last hour, when things die down is the time to experiment
>>> and see what your station can do even if it is outside of your comfort
>>> zone.  The worst that can happen is that the path does not work!
>>> Then, there is the problem of which chat page to monitor. Having poor
>>> connectivity makes monitoring a number of them impossible for many
>>> operators.  On a good day, I might be able to cover two chat pages.
>>> We should set up a standardization for the sprints so people are all
>>> looking at the same place.
>>>
>>> So next time, think twice about quitting early! Do something exciting
>>> instead.
>>>
>>> 73
>>>
>>> Dave K1WHS
>>>
>>>
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