It was interesting to see the difference between my two amplifiers. My
big amp needs some new resistors in the parasitic suppressor, so I used
my SB-1000 at about 600 watts output. After many contests, one gets a
feel for when there should be an immediate response and when not. I'd
estimate the 600 watts was about 70-80% as effective as the 1500,
especially so on 40/80. On those bands I all but gave up S&P'ing out of
sheer frustration. Could not break the pileups. I found I did much
better by CQing, QSYing, CQing and QSYing again, yo-yoing up and down
the band. Weird, but it worked.
Took a while to get in a rhythm. Sprint is a strange contest, not one
of my favorites. I think it's good for the LP guys.
The details:
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9 80m QSOs
49 40m QSOs
82 20m QSOs
140 QSO points
x 31 Multipliers
= 4340 Claimed score
Station:
Kenwood TS-870S
Heath SB-1000
Cubex 4-el quad 20/15/10 @ 80 feet
W9INN trap dipole 40/80 @ 70 feet
Software by WriteLog
Call used: W7TI
Name used: Bill
QTH: Orange section, California
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