NCJ North American Sprint - CW
Call: WA7BNM
Exchange: Bruce CA
Team: S.Calif Contest Club #2
Low Power
All CW hand sent (it was painfully obvious)
Band Q Time
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75 25 0:55
40 33 1:18
20 35 1:47
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93 x 30 = 2,790
Comments:
Yes, this score represents a full 4 hour effort. First time ever in CW
Sprint. Horribly frustrating. Decided pre-contest that my goal was
100 Qs. Five minutes into the contest, I wondered whether
I'd finish with 20 Qs. Felt like a Fiat 600 in a Formula One race.
The good news was there were lots of signals to choose from on all
three bands. The bad news was they all sounded like 100 wpm to me.
I greatly appreciated those Sprinters (many with callsigns recognizable
from the Contest and 3830 reflectors) who automatically QRSd to my
sending speed. You guys are classy, and I hope all of you did well.
Unfortunately, there are still a number of clueless contesters who
would dump their call at 40 wpm after I'd just completed the exchange
with a CQer at about 20 wpm. This only resulted in me turning the VFO
dial and adding to my level of frustration. If they'd sent their call
at a speed reasonably close to mine, we would both have had another Q.
73 de Bruce, WA7BNM (bhorn@netcom.com)
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