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Tuesday, August 10, 2021
SOAPBOX: August 2021 ARS Spartan Sprint
K3RLL
Nice to hear 20m open at
the starting gate but the party seemed to quickly move to 40m where there
seemed like a lot of carrier noise this evening but some nice
signals. It's a lot more fun to operate here in PA with a real outside antenna.
Thanks for the contacts. 72/73 … Don
VE2IRF
Nice to hear 20m open at
the starting gate but the party seemed to quickly move to 40m where there
seemed like a lot of carrier noise this evening but some nice
signals. It's a lot more fun to operate here in PA with a real outside
antenna. Thanks for the contacts. 72/73 … Don
NØTA
12 on
20m, 4 on 40m. Thanks for the Q's.
W5QLF
This is the first time on the Sprint for me since May 2021 and I had to do a little remembering of the protocol. I do recognize many of the calls I worked as being quite active on QRP events and CW in general. Thanks for letting me play once again! Joe, W5QLF
K4BAI
Made 10 other QSOs
before realizing I had left the amp on after calling a traffic net at
0200Z. So I am showing as QSOs only the 11 I made actually QRP. I
guess the other 10 count for the stations I worked. 73/72, John, K4BAI.
K9DRP
Lots of activity on 20
to start, logging half of my contacts there. The rest were on 40. I
couldn't raise anyone on 80 tonight. TNX to Nick, WB5BKL fer two bands. Ran the
Argo V with the KN4YB bug and a LiFEPO battery.
K4PQC
Bands were fairly quiet
but I only had 3 contacts when calling CW the rest were all S & P.
Only one contact on 20 and one on 80 the rest on 40. Thanks to everyone
for the QSOs., Rig here is scaled down Steve Weber KD1JV designed ATS-3b
with the case removed. Before I was running it with the fully enclosed
case. quite a bit lighter now. An Altoids tin weighs about 1.2 oz.
and my case made of very thin 2 sided PCB weighs a little less than 0.6
oz. I removed the case and weighed the transceiver, 3 filters, ear
bud, paddle and 25o mah LiPo battery. Antenna is a 160
meter horizontal loop at 30' fed with 50' 450 ohm open wire, balun and
25' of RG-58 coax. If I would have stayed on 40 meters and not used
the other two filters and only made 8 contacts there would only be a 6 point
difference in the score. More fun changing bands and making more
contacts. 72' Phil
WB9HFK
Rig: Icom 7300 at 5W; Antenna:
OCF Dipole at 30 Ft.; Weight: 30 Lbs.
K5MUG
KX3 @ 5w into a ZS6BKW
inverted V oriented N/S at 40 feet. Little on the sparse side this
evening. 4 CQ SP contacts, 8 S&P. 20m went dry fairly early - 5
contacts in first 26 minutes; on 40m all worked stations very tight - 7
contacts all between 7.040.5 and 7.041.7. Quite a bit of over-lap, tried
tightening down the filters, only helped a couple times. Tried to get thru to
K4PQC from the very beginning (5 or 6 different attempts) - he wasn't hearing
me - finally got him at 02:57z when he responded (339) to my CQ SP with a
couple of repeats. Thanks, Phil. Whew! Particularly nice to work
local Spartan Sprint and QRP Fox Hunt compadre W5QLF/Joe on both 20m (559/QSB)
and 40m (599), Thanks Joe! All in all, hoped for better evening but will
still declare it another pleasurable event. Thanks to all, take care and stay
safe, 72, Cray / K5MUG / San Antonio, TX
K3JZD
Used 20m
and 40m. 40m got kind of weird near the end of the first hour - maybe was
some solar storm activity. MTR-3B w/500 mAH LiPo Battery Pack running 4w
with KØMBT
3D Printed Mini-Mini Key and Earbuds to a 20m beam and 40m dipole. 73 -
Jody - K3JZD
WB5BKL
K3/10 @ 5W to a 40M extended
double Zepp or a 40M dipole. Tried 15M for a while with no luck. 6 states
this month. Best signals: 20M - NØTA, 40M & 80M - K4BAI. Doubles with Don, John
and Don. 1 QRO and 1
incomplete QSO not
counted. Though things were sparse in the second hour, still had fun.
AB9CA
Did not have much time,
ran for about 45 min. K3 at 5w. Logged 2 on 20 and 11 on 40. 40 definitely
seemed to be the better band last evening. Did work NK6A and NØTA on both 20 and 40. Thanks for the Q's and see everyone
next month . . . Dave, ab9ca
WA9TGT
All my contacts were on
40 meters. The band was pretty quiet for a change and began to go really long
by 11:30PM. Donnie Garrett / WA9TGT
AC2YD
Softrock RXTX Ensemble (built from kit), Lenovo laptop running Quisk
software transceiver with homebrew mods to control Softrock via WiFi, 1/4-wave
vertical with 32 radials. Thanks for a cool event! - 72! Ben, AC2YD
- Richard Fisher, KI6SN
Co-founder, The Adventure Radio Society
Riverside, CA
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