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[3830] Honor Sprint - Final Results

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Subject: [3830] Honor Sprint - Final Results
From: W5ASP@aol.com (W5ASP@aol.com)
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 01:20:54 EDT
                Results - October 1998 Honor Sprint


 CALL                SCORE   Qs     Mlt     Class      Team
                                
K7RAT                  4020   134      29      SO/LP    RDO
K7RAT (Revised)    3570   119      29      SO/LP                 [QSYed QSOs
Removed]
K0RF                    2938   113      26      SO/HP 
N0SS                    2842    99      29      SO                        
K6AW                   2496    96      26      SO/HP    RDO
W7GG                   2350    95      24      SO
W4OC                   2040    85      24      SO/LP  
K9NX                     1980    91      22      SO/HP
AA3B                     1694    77      22      SO/HP
N0AX                      1584    72      22      SO/LP    RDO
W5ASP                  1562    71      21      SO/HP
KK7GW                  1440    72      20      SO/LP    RDO
WD4AHZ                1342    61      22      SO/LP    FL Contest Grp
K1HT                     1278    72      18      SO/LP
KM0L                     1254    57      22      SO
KI7Y                       1098    61      18      SO      RDO
N7WA                      918    51      18      SO/LP   RDO
K0A (Op K0RX)         675    45      15      SO/LP
N7FO (Op KN5H)      645    38      17      SO/LP       
AD6DO                    629    37      17      SO
NM5M                     608    38      16      SO 
K1KY                      420    30      14      SO/HP    TN Contest Grp
K7SS                        36    12       3      SO 


Comments:

N0AX  - Had to use "Honest" Abe for the name here - distant relation,
actually.
        Thanks to all that turned up and slugged it out to the very end -
        this one turned into a scavenger hunt!  Also, holding the contest in
        the middle of JARTS RTTY and the fall QRP ARCI QSO Party made for
        some interesting QSOs, especially on 40-meters.

        *** Shall we hold another in April? ***
 
        I tend to agree that the honor sprint could be 2 hours in length,
        given the turnout.  If so, the bands should be higher and the time
        earlier, so that the western guys aren't trying to work 80 in
        daylight and the eastern guys aren't trying to work 20 in the dark.

        N6TR seemed to get into the spirit the most and was busily vacumning
        up QRPers, DLs in the WAG (waggers?), innocent passers-by, and the
        like.  I don't think he was able to work many JARTS RTTY'ers, though.
        I, myself, got kinda distracted (making stew at the same time) and
        wandered off to work TJ, FJ, and 4K on various other bands.  It did
        not occur to me to get into the scavenging aspect and I wish I'd
        thought of it!

        I knew it was going to be a light turnout when 15 minutes in everyone
        I'd worked was lined up like fishermen on opening day CQ-ing away on
        20-meters!  I suspect that we'll get more and more turnout as time
        goes by.

        Looks like the Rush Drake Orchestra team obliterated all competition,
        mainly by absorbing at least half the active participants. Ward, N0AX

AA3B  - Where was everyone? GL this contest season! 73 Bud AA3B

AD6DO - Only operated from 0021-0058z.  Not very many participants so 
        my interest faded very quickly. 73, Daniel Craig, AD6DO

N7WA  - Got up early to do the AP Sprint (5:30AM local), worked 
        outside all day in the cold rain, and started 1/2 hour 
        late. After 2 hours, I had enough and sacked out on the
        couch to watch reruns of MASH. Suggestions for future Honor Sprints: 
        a) Maybe just change it to the Honor Almost Internet Sprint; b) Drop
        to two hours; c) Participation seemed light, maybe allow dupe contacts
        to keep rates up. If participation grows, you could drop the dupes.
        Michael Dinkelman, N7WA

N0SS  - For cryin' out loud...!  Where was everyone???  That was WORK!
        The score I made was SIGNIFICANTLY better than I deserved! Made
        only possible by the lack of other operators. Wound up scraping for
        Q's... working the guys in the QRP contest (thanks to all of them who
        did work me.. they were quite courteous with exchanging data for BOTH
        contests with me). 73 Tom Hammond, N0SS

NM5M  - Thanks Ward!

K7SS  - Imagine my horror, when taking a break after the Padres sad 
        loss to those damn yankees, I read on 3830 reflector digest, which
        comes in every night at around 8:45, that the HONOR SPRINT was on
        today! Not only TODAY, but NOW, and 10 minutes til the end!!!
        Went immediately to 80, worked W7WA, KK7GW and N7LOX followed by
        K7RAT for a MULT!! FLASH changed bands to 40 (sounds like a Gotham
        Adv) and proceeded to jump bands with WA GW and the RAT for the rest
        of the contest and even work a ZERO at the end... 10 minutes on time.
geeeeesh..
        Noteable needless info: First HF contest ever without a CALIFORNIA
        QSO. 73 all and hope Langston can sleep tonight..

K0RX  - (@ K0A) I had reserved this callsign for the Scouting Jamboree on the
        Air.  Lots of kids over to the shack all afternoon.  Lots of ?? about
        the callsign during the sprint - evidently people still aren't used
        to working the 1x1's. I tried to post an announcement of our JOTA
        operation on the cq-contest reflector, but that didn't make it past
        the censors.  Maybe it would have helped in callsign recognition.
        Anyway, thanks to all who participated!  Lets do it again, but 2 hrs
        is probably as long as it needs to be.  

K1HT  - I got off to a flying start, but then had long stretches without
        finding anyone to work.  This one hasn't yet reached critical mass.
        At least conditions were good.  I worked several newcomers; I hope
        they'll turn out for the "big Sprint" in February.

K1KY  - Long day of hamming activities, started out in Gray, TN at hamfest
        with TCG meeting.  4.5 hour return trip, I stopped by the contest
        site to offload my goodies and do a little house cleaning. Couldn't
        get anyone interested in signing up for a team, so I decided to
        operate a while and at least activate that rare TN multiplier. Not a
        lot of activity, but was fun while it lasted. Of course, I have a
        "Golden Log"! Let's make this a 1-2 hour thing next time!
        Thomas M. Delker - K1KY

K6AW  - This was hard work. Thanks for the Q's. 

K7RAT - More like a mud wrestle, or a scavenger hunt then a sprint. Was great
        finding W9WI with a European during the last 15 minutes on 20 meters,
        and then working him on 3 bands.

        (Addenda) - Well, Chuck raises a good point about the QSY stuff.
        Technically, I would say it is "illegal" for the CQing station to
        suggest a QSY after the QSO.  It is probably less clear that the
        answering station would be wrong if he suggested it however.  In
        order to maintain the high honor of this event, here is a revised
        score sheet with all of my QSYed QSOs removed.  Since I don't know
        which ones were which (if I CQed or not), I just removed them all.
        I leave it to the contest sponsors to decide which one to use.

K9NX  - Was still fun even though there couldn't have been 40 stations total
        in the contest. We gotta do a better job of "advertising" next time,
        or make these "honor" sprints shorter (2 hours?). Was real confusing
        with so many contests going at once. On 40 had a QRP test, some kinda
        Euro test and JARTS RTTY, plus the Sprinters all vying for the same
        20KHZ of 40M...what a mess.

KK7GW - Looks like I might be 2nd or 3rd low power behind Tree and maybe a
        couple others.  K0RF was past 100, but I'm pretty sure he was
        running a KW.

W4OC  - Activity not great. After 0311 couldn't find anyone to work. Ran
        single radio - 100 watts and inverted vee's at  45 feet on all bands.
         
W7GG  - Pretty puny turn-out for this one.  World Series or what? Was ready
        to bag it after two hours but hung in another 45 mins. Was pleased
        to see that my NR's were pretty close to the leaders until I folded.
        Felt like I could compete for a change but lack of activity got the
        best of me.

WD4AHZ- Started off pretty good, but once you worked everyone, it sure
        slowed down!  Ccalled it quits after 3 hours,  Thanks to Ward, N0AX
        for getting it organized. Well, as I'm sure everyone else is going
        to say, this went slooooowly. I got off to a fast start, picking up
        17 Q's in the first 17 minutes.  I finally felt in the swing of the
        sprint style system.  Then, I couldn't find any new stations...and
        finally after #25 at 0047z, I went down to 40.  Of course, moving to
        a new band, the rate jumped again, until I'd worked all the hardcore
        guys that could hear me.

        Then, I come across K7RAT working one of the QRP ARCI guys.  As long
        as you get the exchange, it counts, and boy did those QRP'ers help.
        Of course, I had to note the full exchange they sent, because I'm
        doing a semi-effort in that contest too.  It's a good warm-up for SS,
        I had nice little 25-30/hr runs on 20 in the morning. Finally checked
        80 at 0200z, and worked a couple here and there.  I took a bit of a
        break to eat and check the World Series around 0245z, got upstairs
        just in time to see Tino Martinez hit a grand slam to put the
        Yankees on top for good.

        However, I kept at this contest, and I ended it like I did the start,
        racking off 5 Q's in the last 6 minutes, thanks to K7SS and W7WA
        moving up and down with me. Stations worked on all 3 bands: N0AX,
        K6AW, W7GG, K7RAT, N7WA, KI7Y, K7SS, and W7WA. My pet peeve...having
        the RTTY guys maliciously interfere with me...I called NA KK7GW, and
        boom RTTY starts.  It stops, I call, it starts as soon as I finish
        the CQ.  40 was packed with SSB below 7040 and RTTY from 7030 up
        through 7050. This was a different sort of a contest.

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