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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