August 2007
| I am pleased to present (although delayed) results for the August 2007 Straight Key Sprint. Thanks for your patience as the role of SKS manager was transferred from Kevin K4VD to John AI4RE. |
| Congratulations to Jack K4CNW for taking top place in this month's sprint. Neck-and-neck for second and third places were John W9TFC and Joe K8JP. We thank everyone who partipated and hope you do it again. Like always, we invite you to submit your score regardless of your activity so we may gauge the interest in the event. |
| To answer some questions that were asked, yes, Tribunes counted as Centurions for the purpose of bonus points for this sprint. Notice that I have changed the rules for next month (September 2007) to where the SKS bonuses are the same as in the Weekend Sprint-a-thon: five points for Centurions and ten points for Tribunes. Also, if the operator of K9SKC gives his personal SKCC number, please count it as two contacts - one with K9SKC and one with the operator. |
| If these answers change your score, please send the correction to me at ai4re@arrl.net. Please do not resubmit them via the web form on Kevin's (K4VD) web site or e-mail them to Kevin. |
Soapbox
| KD1XU |
Lots of QSB here, but everybody was patient. |
| K4CNW |
Had lot's of fun as usual. 20 meters was open to the NE and the NW US for a short while early from SC but never heard W6UT/K9SKC from CA. 52% of QSO's were 1st time worked for me - thanks everyone. |
| WU7R |
Conditions were pretty bad here in Montana, but I had fun trying to meet the challenge. there is always next month..... |
| K8JP |
Could not break Dennis K9SKC on 40M. Fun event, but way too much unnecessary repeats. Many very good signals, but some were rivaled by the summer QRN. Never heard a signal on 80M and I called CQ 4 or 5 times. 8RN TFC net was on 3530 kHz. One new SKCC state and one new C. Great time, even though I was dog tired after half of a day at the VA hospital. |
| KA8HFN |
GREAT SPRINT. |
| K4KFJ |
All QSOs were made on 40m with moderate QRN.
Counted the K9SKC/W6UT QSO as two QSOs. Hope
that was correct. All QSOs were S&P. My tks
to those who participated so I could play radio. |
| KC9HGW |
Not great propagation, but I could really hear the stations I had QSOs with. I had a pipeline to FL. |
| KC0RSX |
Lots of fun tonight! Got another state for WAS. Good deal. |
| KC8HKI |
Wow! This was pretty exciting for a first timer. I can't believe how the bands lit up so quickly! Thanks to those that QRS for me. What fun, even if I did only make 5 contacts. thx 73 -Nick |