[WWYC] sprint notes

[Hrvoje Horvat]

I think EU Sprint is still not so activated to make any big strategies. In
NA Sprint you can miss a lot of stations, in EU Sprint you cant due much
lower activity - that's why speeds are limited and there's no need to be too
fast, you even end with some free time. As the activity is increasing we
might change some habbits and use NA Sprint system such as
call-exchange-call which is way more efficient.

I hope activity will be much higher in few years and so we will be more
limited with our skills rather then good location/equipment. I think Sprint
is the contest which allows that if activity allows that to happen.

Activity, activity and more activity needed...

Hrle - 9A6XX, NY6W


----- Original Message -----
From: "George Fremin III" <geoiii at kkn.net>
To: <zoltan.pitman at vodafone.com>
Cc: <wwyc at contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, April 19, 2004 7:54 PM
Subject: Re: [WWYC] sprint notes


> On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 03:32:39PM +0200, zoltan.pitman at vodafone.com
wrote:
>
> >
> > I considered it a learning experience and used alt-n frequently. I
started
> > the contest with some ideas learned from the writeups and how-to's like
that
> > of N6TR and W4AN. Too bad I couldn't find back Bill's old Sprint
recordings
> > - they would have been great for warm-up.
>
> W4AN sprint recordings.... the WAV files are the orginal files but I think
> the MP3 versions are just as good or at least good enough sound wise.
>
> http://www.kkn.net/~k5tr/audio/w4an/
>
> Also for other practice/warm up you might find this useful:
>
> http://www.kkn.net/~k5tr/audio/sprint_practice/
>
>
> > I ended up realizing that most of
> > the ideas did not work and I have more questions than before. ok, enough
of
>
> I would be intrested in knowing what did not work and why.
>
> And is this becasue the EU sprint is diffrent than the NA one in
> some way?
>
> >
> > I programmed F2 as <call> # zoli on/ha1ag and F3 as <call> on/ha1ag #
zoli.
> > Used F2 when answered cq's and F3 when got called on CQ. The idea was
from
> > Bill Fisher suggesting that the guy coming to the freq will hear my call
and
> > will know that I will be the one to be called.  It did not work here
either!
> > Most stations simply got confused when got the nr where they expected to
> > hear my call. I heard only G4BUE to do the same. Noticeably top
sprinters
> > like DL6RAI used even the DE between the calls. I never heard anyone
asking
> > Ben for a fill. hmmm.
>
> The convetion in the NA sprint is to do the QSOs such that you can
> always tell who will be getting the frequency next.
>
> You can read more about that here:
>
> http://n6tr.jzap.com/sprint.html
> or
> http://www.contesting.com/articles/198
>
>
> > I thought that sprint will be a contest with speedy CW and set my speeds
>
> It is a speedy contest in NA but the guys that tend to do well in the
> contest generally adapt to the person they working and the band
> conditions.
>
> > Digging out LP stations from the noise especially the QRS-types was made
> > difficult by stations landing on the freq starting CQ. (I did it at
least
> > twice accidentally , sry Ulf!). Sending by paddle was helpful then but
still
> > those QSOs took looong time. Sometimes I wished they did not even called
> > me... :(
>
> Sometimes you have to know when to ignore a caller.
>
> > This time I did 1 radio but I see room for SO2R. I think the Sprint is
not
> > really for the ptt-controlled audio switch but more for the constant
audio
> > splitup. I'm very curious to know how SO2Rers do their magic in Sprint.
>
> I would agree - I know that W4AN almost never switched this audio
preferring to
> just listen to both streams all the time.  I also do not switch my audio
except
> for the weak ones or noise etc.  That way you always can follow what is
happening
> on the other raidio.
>
> --
> George Fremin III - K5TR
> geoiii at kkn.net
> http://www.kkn.net/~k5tr
>
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