17/04/2005
The EUSPRINT-CW spring 2005
The cw sprint seems to rouse less participants... a lot of regulars were either missing, or I could not hear them. I did not make any qso on 80, and only a few on 40. So instead of the adrenaline-generating event it used to be, it was more of a relaxing experience. Maybe the rx was dead? I did have S5 noise on the band. I worked a few USA stations without problem on 20. Anyway, I made 60 qso's, and the largest number received was below 100, where in previous sprints the top was 190.... Condx??
I missed 1 feature in tlf. The most efficient way to work the sprint is to:
call someone in S&P mode,
then give QRZ in CQ mode,
work the caller and
find the next CQ'er.
It would be nice if after the first QSO tlf would switch to CQ mode automatically. Won't take much effort I think.
09:50 Posted in Blog, contesting, tlf development | Permalink | Comments (1) | Email this | Tags: Linux Ham Software
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Hi Rein, I think there is no general decline in the EU Sprint activity, but unfortunately this time the condx were quite bad and most of the regular participants from Russia were not taking part, but worked in their WSEM contest instead. Also Spring sprint is usually less busy than Autumn.. Cu in the next one!
Posted by: DJ1YFK | 24/04/2005
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