KA9MOT
09-16-2012, 02:19 AM
So, I heard the special event station on 40M from St Louis, W6P. He's calling CQ and I thought, "Cool, I wonder what that is all about?"
At almost the exact same time I hear my buddy N9WFT, Dan (We took our General tests together) call him and they had an exchange. Dan is one of those guys who wants to rag chew with everybody, and was doing his best to get the Special Event Station (Route 66 Special Event) to set and talk a bit. The station did for a minute, signed and called CQ. I called him and we exchanges reports and I spun the dial.
I jumped up to 20M and worked a couple of stations doing the CQ Salmon Run. The second station was being QRMed real bad by a station 100kc below us. I listened to the second station for a few more minutes and he said he was moving to 40 to get away from the QRM. I spun the dial and heard the QRMing station calling CQ Sprint. So, we have a contest going as well. I'm not a contester but do enjoy giving some of these folks the contact because it is fun.
I listened, wrote down the call, typed it into my logbook so all I would have to do is press Tab if the contact was made and my logging program would fill in most of the important stuff. As soon as I was prepared, I answered his CQ.
He came back to me first call, gave me a 59 report, told me his name, state and serial number. Gleaning what I needed to send him from his exchange, I told him 59, Steve, Illinois, 001, 73 and Good Luck OM!
He said, "Thank you very much, good luck and the frequency is yours"....... UH-Oh, why did he give me the frequency? I don't want the frequency..... Why would he offer me the frequency?
I'm a VFO turner.... I never ever camp on a frequency. I've called CQ once in my life and didn't enjoy it.....
Needless to say, silence ensued, the frequency was never used by me beyond my initial exchange with the contester.
So, after thinking about this for awhile I decided I'd better find the rules for this contest, and don't ya' know, that is how a Sprint works......
No more Sprints for me....
At almost the exact same time I hear my buddy N9WFT, Dan (We took our General tests together) call him and they had an exchange. Dan is one of those guys who wants to rag chew with everybody, and was doing his best to get the Special Event Station (Route 66 Special Event) to set and talk a bit. The station did for a minute, signed and called CQ. I called him and we exchanges reports and I spun the dial.
I jumped up to 20M and worked a couple of stations doing the CQ Salmon Run. The second station was being QRMed real bad by a station 100kc below us. I listened to the second station for a few more minutes and he said he was moving to 40 to get away from the QRM. I spun the dial and heard the QRMing station calling CQ Sprint. So, we have a contest going as well. I'm not a contester but do enjoy giving some of these folks the contact because it is fun.
I listened, wrote down the call, typed it into my logbook so all I would have to do is press Tab if the contact was made and my logging program would fill in most of the important stuff. As soon as I was prepared, I answered his CQ.
He came back to me first call, gave me a 59 report, told me his name, state and serial number. Gleaning what I needed to send him from his exchange, I told him 59, Steve, Illinois, 001, 73 and Good Luck OM!
He said, "Thank you very much, good luck and the frequency is yours"....... UH-Oh, why did he give me the frequency? I don't want the frequency..... Why would he offer me the frequency?
I'm a VFO turner.... I never ever camp on a frequency. I've called CQ once in my life and didn't enjoy it.....
Needless to say, silence ensued, the frequency was never used by me beyond my initial exchange with the contester.
So, after thinking about this for awhile I decided I'd better find the rules for this contest, and don't ya' know, that is how a Sprint works......
No more Sprints for me....