Here is my story....
Operated from N5RP
Station #1 TS940S/TL922A
Station #2 TS940S/TL922A
Only ran 500W due to neighborhood TVI/RFI problems
TA36 @ 70' 20M
403BAS @ 60' 40M
Inverted V @ 60' 80M
Final score......................295/45.......................13,275
Activity was way down in my estimation. Conditions seemed to be OK except
for 80 which was very noisy from Houston. I missed several who called me on
80. They were just too weak.
I did not have the mentality to go low power. As you see, KR0Y did just as
well
low power as I did with 500W!!! This is definitely not my contest.
Does anyone have K6NA score???????
I'll see everyone again next weekend.
73,
Mr. Bill K5GA
>From Roy Hradilek <73374.2465@compuserve.com> Mon Sep 11 17:03:21 1995
From: Roy Hradilek <73374.2465@compuserve.com> (Roy Hradilek)
Subject: Sprint Score - AD5Q
Message-ID: <950911160321_73374.2465_DHS64-1@CompuServe.COM>
Band QSOs
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20 68
40 97
80 78
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Tot: 243 x 42 = 10,206
This one got off to an awful start on 20. My older version (8.09) of NA
locked up or crashed about every 3rd or 4th QSO, requiring re-boot. This
killed the rate for the first hour. The only thing I can figure is that NA
version 8 doesn't like DOS 6. The shack computer was on DOS 3.3 until
recently.
Finally, I downloaded the NA file to an SDF and uploaded into YVT's copy of
version 9.20. It was still on my disk from Field Day. I reset the initializa-
tion parameters and was ready to go. Cost: 5 minutes. I remained on 20 cuz
there were still lots of guys I hadn't worked.
I QSY'ed to 40 late, but it played great. 80 was also good. Had no further
problems with NA, and pulled well ahead of stations that were running even
with me when I worked them on 20.
The power here was 800 watts on 20, and 1000 on 40 & 80. I was surprised at
the number of guys running low power. I have no problem with Sprint becoming
a low power contest like NAQP (how about a 100 watt limit?). It means those
of us without two radios or quick QSY amplifiers can change bands more often.
I have yet to do more than 2 QSYs in a Sprint. This was fun, but with so many
guys running low power it's hard to compare scores. Derrick can't spell.
Roy -- AD5Q
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