RESULTS -- TENTH INTERNET SPRINT by Larry "Tree" Tyree N6TR and John "jzap" Zapisek K2MM Finally, the results you have been waiting for. The tenth (wow) Internet Sprint (SprINT) contest was held the 28th of April at 0100 UTC. Twenty meters was screwy (as always) and 40 was good enough to produce almost as many QSOs as 20 did. In the early minutes, N5RZ/m seemed to be in the best spot having a great signal into almost all areas on the country. However, Gator fell off the pace when 40 meters came into play, and John, KZ2S at the controls of N2NT, came out in the top spot. John was pushed by K6LL who ended up with 4 fewer QSOs for second place. N6TR experimented with two-radio operating on one band (20 meters), which was effective but hardly competitive as 20 meters was very poor in the northwest. A recovery on 40 meters allowed Tree to fight off a host of other finishers within 4 QSOs. The results you are about to see were generated by K2MM. The reasons the results are late are discussed in the end of the writeup. I doubt this combination of events will happen again. The good news is that all of the tools are now under his control and should be available for a long time to come. For those of you who might have joined the CQ-CONTEST reflector recently, you may have missed the announcement of this contest, and thus not know what it is about. It is very similar to the NCJ NA Sprint contest, except for two major differences: Instead of always sending your own name, you only send it for the first QSO. After that, you send the name received in your previous QSO. This is like a group of people sitting in a circle, passing a message around, and seeing how it got garbled after making its way around. The other difference is that you can rework stations after making 3 QSOs with other stations. This gives you many chances to check out how the competition is doing (as K6LL found out) and assures high rates. The logs are cross-checked by computer, and any busted QSO results in removal from BOTH logs. Congrats to AH3C who had a perfect log with 15 QSOs. KZ8E and N6TR had less than 2 percent QSOs removed. Good work all three of you. The next SprINT will probably be held during the last weekend of July. Keep an eye on CQ-CONTEST for more information. So, over to John for the analysis... 73 Tree N6TR tree@contesting.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Internet SprINT Participation Statistics Date 9604 9512 9507 9504 9501 9407 9404 9401 9310 9305 Logs Sub'd 37 49 33 32 29 45 29 30 26 29 Calls Found 62 76 82 50 64 88 54 55 47 74 Reported: 20m QSOs 1915 0 2871 967 0 3258 1457 2170 1552 2471 40m QSOs 1772 2518 587 1629 2115 247 1081 758 574 2 80m QSOs 0 2080 0 0 619 0 0 0 0 0 QSOs NoMatch 235 368 488 328 348 461 144 156 214 391 QSOs Matched 3452 4230 2970 2268 2386 3044 2394 2772 1912 2082 Total QSOs 3687 4598 3458 2596 2734 3505 2538 2928 2126 2473 Pct. Matched 93.6 92.0 85.9 87.4 87.3 86.8 94.3 94.7 89.9 84.2 SCORE LISTINGS #OK = your score #NG = contacts not credited RXNG = you busted the call/number/name of the station you worked TXNG = the station you worked busted your call/number/name DUPE = you worked the same station within 3 previous non-dupes BCHG = total number of band changes CALL #OK #NG RXNG TXNG DUPE BCHG ACC'Y (each * is 1% over 80%) n2nt (kz2s) 172 5 1 4 0 1 97.2 ***************** k6ll 168 5 4 1 0 1 97.1 ***************** n5rz 155 8 3 5 0 1 95.1 *************** n6tr 144 2 1 1 0 1 98.6 ****************** n4tqo 143 3 1 2 0 1 97.9 ***************** wq5l 140 2 1 1 0 3 98.6 ****************** wa2srq 140 6 2 4 0 3 95.9 *************** n0ax 134 3 1 1 1 13 97.8 ***************** n4ogw 132 10 3 4 3 3 93.0 ************ nv6o 126 20 10 10 0 1 86.3 ****** aa3b 124 9 0 8 1 1 93.2 ************* n4zr 120 8 4 4 0 1 93.8 ************* w0cp (aa5wq) 117 16 13 3 0 3 88.0 ******* k8jlf 116 5 2 2 1 1 95.9 *************** k4pql 115 9 3 2 5 11 92.7 ************ w5ehm (aa5bt) 110 6 3 3 0 3 94.8 ************** ab4rx 109 5 3 1 1 1 95.6 *************** kk9w 109 8 5 3 0 1 93.2 ************* n6ip 104 9 4 5 0 3 92.0 ************ w9wi 103 12 1 9 1 3 89.6 ********* ae0m 98 11 6 3 2 1 89.9 ********* k8hvt 96 6 1 5 1 7 94.1 ************** ka9fox 88 7 2 4 1 1 92.6 ************ kz8e 86 1 1 1 0 1 98.9 ****************** w7zrc 75 9 8 2 1 1 89.3 ********* k1ll 73 4 1 3 0 3 94.8 ************** n7lox 57 5 3 1 1 1 91.9 *********** wb0ola 57 6 5 1 0 1 90.5 ********** w3goi 56 12 7 2 3 1 82.4 ** wn4kkn 40 1 0 1 0 1 97.6 ***************** k8mr 39 2 0 2 0 2 95.1 *************** w2up 31 1 0 1 0 0 96.9 **************** nj2l 26 1 0 1 0 1 96.3 **************** n6aa 21 1 0 1 0 0 95.5 *************** ah3c 15 0 0 0 0 0 100.0 ******************** aa9ax 15 1 0 1 0 0 93.8 ************* n9jf 11 3 2 1 0 1 78.6 wa6kui 0 1 1 0 0 0 0.0 kr0y 0 2 2 0 0 0 0.0 na4k -19 19 0 0 0 0 0.0 No log kb8n -76 76 0 0 0 0 0.0 No log aa6kx -89 89 0 0 0 0 0.0 No log #OK + #NG is the raw claimed score. #NG is the number of busted contacts. Some contacts may be busted for more than one reason, so RXNG + TXNG + DUPE may be greater than #NG. As usual, amnesty was granted for QSO-number errors where the difference was one or less. Also, because a bug in TR-Log caused several logs to be missing QTH data, blanket amnesty was granted for all QTH errors for this running only. Stations making more than 10 QSOs who did not submit a log were penalized one point per unreported QSO! All entrants' graded logs have been sent to them via e-mail. These logs, as well as this and past results, are available via anonymous FTP: ftp://jzap.com/pub/int/YYMM-log.zip (YYMM = 9604) ftp://jzap.com/pub/int/YYMM-res.zip THE JOYS OF HORSERACING Some ops have remarked that being allowed to work dupes makes this contest uninteresting. I've found exactly the opposite. Frequently working a station with whom you're running neck-and-neck and comparing numbers can be a lot of fun. > [Dave/K6LL] It was an interesting horserace with N2NT: time my # his # 0103 5 6 0106 11 12 0113 20 22 0132 46 48 0134 50 52 0145 65 68 0152 72 77 0229 127 131 0242 145 149 0300 173 ??? With only a four-QSO difference between you and first-place John/KZ2S/N2NT, I was sure your horserace graph would be very interesting. Unfortunately, it turned out to be quite boring. As your table above shows, John was consistently just a little ahead of you. Sorry, Dave. > [Ward/N0AX] I had a fun race with N4OGW, but couldn't catch up with him. > [Tor/N4OGW] As usual, skip was too long on 20m. Nothing from > TX/EastCoast at the start, only the Far West. 20 finally opened to TX, > but never to the east... rate sure jumped when 40 got going! The horserace between Ward and Tor was one of the more interesting. With Ward losing only 3 NG QSOs to Tor's 10, Ward actually passed him. One interesting facet is how rates varied with band. Notice how Tor's rate dropped the first time he went to 40, prompting him to come back to 20 for another 15 minutes. Also notice how the rates took off once 40 got humming. This graph shows the race between N0AX and N4OGW minute by minute. The x-axis is a constant rate of 130 QSOs per two hours. Each line above/below the x-axis is one valid QSO more/less than that rate. Call: N0AX N4OGW (tie) Sign: x o # 0000 0010 0020 0030 0040 0050 0100 | | | | | | | 22222222222222222222222222222222222222222222 2222222222 22 n0ax | | | | | 444 | 44 | band | x | | | | | | o xxx x | | | | | | x#o xx## | | | | | +--o----o-+#--------+---------+---------+---------+---------+ 65 | oooo | #x#ooo | | | | | | | o xx | | | | | | | x#x| x | | | | | | oxxxxx ###o| | | | | | o o x| xx | | x x | | | |o o #oo##oxo xxo | x xx xxx 59 | | | oo |xx xo o ox# #o xxxxx | | | | | o| # x#x | oo| | | | | | o | o o o 56 | | | | | o |ooo oo | | | | | | oo | | | | | | | | 22222222222222222222222222222222222222222222 22222222222 n4ogw | | | | | 444444| | band | | | | | | | 0100 0110 0120 0130 0140 0150 0200 | | | | | | | 2 22 22 2|2 | | | | | n0ax |4 44 444 4 444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444| band | | | | | | | | | | | | oo |ooo xxx| | | | | | oo x#xx x 134 | | | | | oo | x oo oo| | | | | | x xx o o 132 | | | | x ooox# x x| | +---------+---------+--------#xxx##x##o#+xxo---xx-+---------+ 130 | | | ### | o o x | | | | xxxxxxxxx x # oo | | | | |xx | x # | | | | | x o | o | | | | | xxxxx x|ooo oo oo|oo | | | | xxx x o o o | | | | | o| | | | | | | oo o | | | | | | ooo ooo | | | | | | | | | | | | | 22222 | | | | | | n4ogw | 4444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444| band | | | | | | | SOAPBOX > [John/KZ2S/N2NT] This was my first SprINT. Guess I lucked out that > conditions actually favored NJ. One often makes one's own luck. Congratulations on hitting a home run your first time at bat, John! > [Ed/WA2SRQ] Congrats to KZ2S for showing just what is possible from NJ. > Maybe if I put balls on my yagis I'll be loud enough to catch him. So you think that's what it takes? Balls? > [Rod/W7ZRC] Hats off to those of you who made the 100+ scores! > [Steve/AA9AX] Congrats to all you great ops that scored 100+. > [Pete/AH3C] Had to quit. Terrible noise level here. Well at least it didn't make you have any errors Pete!! > [Gator/N5RZ] Just got the Armadillo wagon going for the Texas QSO party > next weekend. Drove out about 12 miles south of town several miles away > from the nearest power lines. Sure was quiet, but, being the only light > around for miles, I was attacked by bugs. Even though it was 90+ degrees > out, I had to roll up all the windows, and I was sweating like a pig! C'mon Gator -- according to Miss Frizzle on the Magic School Bus, reptiles don't sweat. > [Derek/AA5BT/W5EHM] Very humbling to get numbers over 160 from several > people, including Gator/M, sheesh. > [Eric/NV6O] Another exhibition of fantastic operating skills by the > SprINT gang. How does Gator do it? > [Steve/N4TQO] Nice to hear many new calls. This is beginning to be a > serious contest, lots of scores over 150. Where was KM900P? > [Bob/N6IP] First "full" contest effort since last July. SprINT seemingly > has much more activity than the last time I entered. Hard to say for sure, Bob. We had more logs this time, but there were more different callsigns found in July. > [Jim/N9JF] To say that I never got into the rhythm of this thing is a > ludicrous understatement. But it was fun while I lasted. People that have to milk cows at 5 AM might have a hard time with a contest that starts as late as the SprINT. > [Rus/NJ2L] It was a lot of fun, even though I couldn't do the whole > thing! Next time I hope the schedule is clear. > [Jeff/KR0Y] I made 2 QSOs. Jeff also showed how you can have an impact on the contest just by making one QSO and interjecting a tough name into the contest. He started with SQUINT which made some interesting results. (Check out the name traces.) > [Ric/WA6KUI] My second SprINT. That's not a typo on the score. Only > took time for one QSO with WA2SRQ. I preach the KISS (Keep It Simple > Stupid) system and practiced it in this event! Apparently not simple enough, Ric. Neither you nor Jeff submitted a complete log. (Neither had any received info.) But though you tied him in #OK (zero), you finished ahead of him by having one fewer busted QSO! CONDITIONS AND PROPAGATION > [John/KZ2S/N2NT] The Pacific Northwest was extremely weak on 20, but we > did have some propagation out to the ninth call area. Forty was better. > [Gator/N5RZ] Had to go to 40M at about 0215Z. It rough with the 8' > mobile antenna!! Actually, the weaker the station was, the better were my > chances!! I must have called K6LL 25 times on 40M (S9+40) and got beat > almost everytime!! Yes, the pileups were big. Maybe calling CQ would have worked better. > [Ed/WA2SRQ] This was the first time I've been able to send Tree higher > numbers than he gave me. Either conditions were really terrible in the > northwest, or his antennas were down and he was using a 160 dipole. [Tree] Maybe that was it!! > [Art/K1LL] Condx poor -- too late up here. Heard the same guys the whole > test. Hence the high number of dupes. But is a good test. 80 would have > helped -- or 160. > [Pete/N4ZR] Well, that was fun. 20 stayed open surprisingly well, and 40 > wasn't bad either, though noisy. > [Dan/AB4RX] First time, had fun. Wish I was on west coast for this one. Be careful what you wish for. New Jersey seemed to be a good place to be. > [Scott/KA9FOX] Operated from home using multiband dipole up about 15 > feet! 20 was worthless, but 40 was great! Heh heh... He said POLE... Heh heheh heh... > [Dave/K8JLF] Decent propagation allowed me to make 121 QSOs, my best > claimed score to date. Hope we didn't take too many out. > [Rod/W7ZRC] Here is my worst example of the SprINT test to date. I'm > going to blame it all on the chili baked potato that I had a couple of > hours before the test! It's still making me sick this morning. A new meaning to "Famous Potatos". > [Ray/WQ5L] Had a blast as always! One regret though: jogging right > before 'test and cooling off with large convenience store Diet Coke. I am > sure the caffeine jitters were quite apparent in my keying... > [Doug/W9WI] These contests are a blast! Someday I have to learn your > software so I can use the computer in this thing... I'm sure my hand-sent > Morse stood out like a sore thumb! > [Tony/AE0M] My best result so far. . . . The attic dipole, being eight > feet above the shack, causes RF in the keyer, making me stutter more than > normal. > [Earl/KZ8E] I spent the day hanging drywall and was way to tired for > SprINTing. Couldn't seem to copy or send worth a squat. Oh well, it only > lasted for two hours so I didn't suffer for too long. > [Scott/KA9FOX] A two-hour contest from home... cool! My YL Laurie thinks > they all should be this way. Hmmm, maybe we are giving our spouses the wrong idea here. TR-LOG -- BLESSING AND BANE > [Ed/WA2SRQ] It's a good thing it's only 2 hours because typing up the > log after the contest is getting to be a pain. I'm going to have to > figure out a way to use NA or CT to log this thing. Well, it's your fault for making so many Qs. BTW, Ed, have you written off TR-Log? If not, try downloading ftp://jzap.com/pub/n6tr/4-05.zip ! > [Jim/WB0OLA] I used the public domain version [4.05] of your program, it > worked quite well. Glad it was worth the price. > [Barry/W2UP] Got a TR-Log-4.05 CFG file from WB0OLA on Saturday night of > the SprINT. Took it to the 'reading room' along with the SprINT rules to > look them over, then I noticed the contest time -- Sunday 0100-0300Z! > Oops! Thought the contest was Sunday LOCAL time! Got about 30 minutes > in, hand logged again. Maybe next time... > [John/W3GOI] I really like the fast and furious nature; much more > interesting than most contests. I found the ops who had put QRS commands > in their exchange right before the name were a great help. There are a lot of people doing this. If you use TR-Log, it is the default, so many people might have been doing it without even knowing it. > [Erik/AA5WQ/W0CP] Thank you for your work in putting this contest > together. Not only did it provide an excellent chance to give TRlog a try > for the first time, but it also gave me a break from studying for finals. Cool. I remember one guy asking Tree if TR-Log handled this contest :-) > [Scott/KA9FOX] Have never used TR logging for this contest before, and of > course didn't try to play around with it before the contest, so I got off > to a pretty slow start. > [Erik/AA5WQ/W0CP] For some unknown reason none of the QTH's I copied with > TR-Log were saved. Please accept this as a checklog. > [Dave/K8JLF] Tree: As you suggested, I filled in the QTHs; they should > be pretty close to correct. No need. Several other entrants' logs were missing QTH information, so it seemed appropriate to grant blanket amnesty for QTH errors -- for this running only, of course. But next time you should choose a logging program with not quite so many bugs in it! (Pardon the oxymoron :-) > [Steve/AA9AX] After working in the yard all day and being off the air > since my last test months ago, I really should have started preparing more > than 30 minutes prior to test time. Being new with TR, I finally got into > the test with about 25 minutes to go. > [Ward/N0AX] A great little contest after a day of yard work. > [Eric/NV6O] Thanks for a wonderful evening and a good excuse to quit > digging blackberry roots. [Tree] Didn't know blackberries went that far south, Eric. > [Rus/NJ2L] Spring doesn't seem interested in coming to WNY this year. > Even so, Trey/WN4KKN and I spent a few hours moving the 40/80 antenna to a > taller tree. Trey is probably still shivering from the wind chill! HI-FI VERSUS STEREO > [Dave/K6LL] One of my radios is out of service, so this was a plain old > one-radio low-tech one-bandchange exercise. It was a LOT MORE FUN than > previous SprINTs where I had been trying to improve my two radio > capability. I sure wish this two-radio crap would all go away. If you had fun, Dave, it was probably worth losing the second radio... even if you did miss finishing first by only four Qs! Sayeth N6TR, "Measure your success by how much fun you are having and against your previous efforts." OTOH, maybe Tree is just trying to keep you from beating him as often :-) > [Ward/N0AX] With two radios, as 20 started to fade, I got into a nice > two-on-20, two-on-40 thing that kept the rate meter spinnin' while > everybody moved down. . . . Tycho? Gotta be Derek/AA5BT at W5EHM. Bzzzt. Derek started with the name DUPE. TYCHO came from Dave/KK9W. > [Derek/AA5BT/W5EHM] N0AX sent me 35 and #38, so I was a dupe for him. Do > we both lose the Q for this? Am I expected to check everyone else's > numbers as they come in as well? Yes, Derek, I expect YOU to check everyone else's numbers for dupes. Not anyone else, mind you, just YOU, Mr. DUPE! > [Dave/KK9W] This is lots of fun. Thanks for sponsoring it. . . . FYI, > TYCHO is my son's name. I figured that was okay to choose something more > unusual than DAVE. As Dr. Seuss said, Too Many Daves! > [Tree/N6TR] I don't think my name has ever made it to the finish. I > started with Tree (for a change) and kept hearing it. I fell out of > my chair with 3 minutes left in the contest when I QSOed N5RZ and he > gave me my name back!! I was really tempted to stop then. What is > really amazing is the name I sent back to him was GATOR!!! What are > the odds of that? It's happened before. I'm sure it'll happen again... just not to YOU! > [Pete/N4ZR] I know I perpetrated one of the name schlemozzles when I > tried to correct W5EHM's call on TR's exchange line. I didn't notice > until TR sent W5EHM to the next station as my name! > [Ed/WA2SRQ] At qso #70, I purposely sent ED for the name, not WHEHM, as > is allowed by the rules. > [Dave/K8JLF] Fewer weird names this time; are we getting soft? I can > guess where WHEHM came from, but I'm eager to see ZWAH explained. > [Rus/NJ2L] For the life of me, I can't recall the name that Trey sent to > me in the first QSO. Duh. For my first QSO, I sent him Rus, I think. Nope. Guess again. > [Rus/NJ2L] The name from my first QSO was ZWAH. Oops. Yes, that's better. ZWAH was invented by Theresa Tyree at the age of one year. It was about the only word she would say to Trey when he visted Camp Boring for an All Asian contest. It has developed into a real word and has the following meanings: As a one-word voice-mail message -- "Just calling to say HI. Not much going on. Give me a call back if you want to chat... or not." As the Subject in an e-mail -- "Not sure what this message is about because I haven't typed it yet." > [Eric/NV6O] I assume that ZAPWARE will deduct all the N4BO's and that > N4TQO will beat me again. Sprint-style contests should perfect for callsign-challenged ops like you, Eric. That's because you get to copy the other guy sending what he thinks is your call. Hal/K8HVT must have caught you sending his call wrong... 20 0108 nv6o 9 putter ca k9hvt 6 bruce ct -NG- 20 0111 nv6o 14 ace ca k9hvt 9 al ct -NG- 20 0159 nv6o 69 brian ca k8hvt 47 rod ct -ok- 40 0236 nv6o 114 bruce ca k8hvt 79 doug ct -ok- ...else your log might have looked more like Erik/AA5WQ/W0CP's: 20 0128 w0cp 20 dave co n4bo 34 joe -- -NG- 20 0133 w0cp 25 gator co n4bo 40 ed -- -NG- 20 0156 w0cp 53 gator co n4bo 65 roy -- -NG- 40 0222 w0cp 81 brian co n4bo 95 chris -- -NG- 40 0239 w0cp 105 tycho co n4bo 116 bruce -- -NG- 40 0249 w0cp 119 barry co n4bo 128 ron -- -NG- 40 0257 w0cp 129 chas co n4bo 140 bruce -- -NG- > [Milla/UR2MJ] Hey there, Mr. TalkTooMuch... What's in store for us now? Glad you asked. Enough talking; let's see some name traces! NAME TRACES For an explanation of the symbols, see the Reader's Guide to SprINT Name Traces in any of the previous write-ups. Its usual space following the Name Traces is pre-empted this running for a brief update on K2MM and jzap.com. k8hvt 1 ace =====================================-====== . . . ace ============================================ . . . ace ==============ae0m-w7om= wa2srq 109 john ===-=========================-========aa9ax. k1ll 1 art ====k4pql= k6ll 14 al ========n4zr-k0erm# aa3b 18 dave ===========n4tqo-kr0y= w7zrc 10 squirt ===========-==============-====w7zrc= n4zr 60 squint ===========n7lox-n8rr? w2up 1 barry -==========-=====-======n5rz-kb8n= n6tr 132 larry =================n0ax. nv6o 1 bo =======================w3goi= nv6o 26 boy = w0cp 11 bo ======================k8jlf-aa6kx= n6tr 50 dan =========================n4zr= n5rz 91 dav = k6ll 93 dan =====k8mr= w5ehm 68 chris =========-==w0cp= wb0ola 45 chas -=======================-=-=======w9wi= wa2srq 145 chris = nv6o 145 chas =n4ogw. n6ip 1 bob ==========wa2srq-k0erm# n4zr 12 dave =====================n6ip+aa3b n7lox 1 brian ======================-===================== . . . brian =-================================-========= . . . brian ==============-===-=========n5rz. aa6kx 1 bruce =====================================-====== . . . bruce ====================-=======-=====-====n7lox. ae0m 100 bruce *==-====nj2l. aa3b 1 bud ==========n6ip= ae0m 11 bob ==-========================================= . . . bob =====-=======-=-=======-===-=k8mr-aa6kx? n8rr 1 chas ===============-====-==-=============wq5l= nv6o 104 chris ===============================-====n6ip. wl7ky 1 chris ===========-=========-=-==================== . . . chris =======================-========-==n6aa= wb0ola 55 chase = w7zrc 77 chas =================k6ll. ab4rx 1 dan =========================-===============-== . . . dan ===========-=====-====-==n0ax-wn3k= nv6o 44 brian =-================================-========= . . . brian ==============-===-=========n5rz. k0erm 1 dave ====-=======================-======-=======n2nt= n4zr 59 bruce ================-==================-======== . . . bruce ===========-========w9wi. k8jlf 1 dave =====-====-==========-===================-== . . . dave =====================-=========-=ka9fox= n4ogw 80 jim ====-?-=============================-====n5rz= kk9w 102 paul =======kz8e. n6aa 1 dick ==============================-==k8mr. w9wi 1 doug ============w7zrc= kz8e 14 fred ============================================ . . . fred =========kk9w-w4ydd# w5ehm 1 dupe ========-=======================-======ah3c. kz8e 1 earl ===nv6o= kk9w 4 earr -aa6kx= n5rz 12 earl ==n7lox-w7om? wa2srq 1 ed ===================-==============-========= . . . ed ==============w0cp+ab4rx kp4tk 1 eric ===-====-?-=======w3goi. w0cp 1 erik ===-=-====n4ogw= n7lox 14 eric ====================n6tr-aa6kx= ae0m 41 erik =====k1ll-w4ydd# kk9w 69 paul -=========-========================-=ae0m. n4tqo 1 felton =aa3b= w7zrc 3 frelton ======-=n6ip= n2nt 27 felton =kz8e= w7zrc 7 frelton =======ah3c-wl7ky? ka9fox 1 fox ==-============================-==-========= . . . fox ============-========w9wi-wn3k? n5rz 1 gator =============================-============-= . . . gator ===========-========-=-===-=========-======= . . . gator ========================-======w5ehm. n6ip 39 gator *=======-=====-========-==================== . . . gator ===================-===========-=======n6aa. wn3k 1 glug ========wa2srq= n7lox 62 grur = w0cp 79 george ===-============-=========-===-====================w2up. wb7dzn 1 greg ============-================-==w7zrc. k6ll 1 hack ==k8jlf-k0erm# n2nt 9 dave ==-==========-============aa3b= n7lox 26 rod =================================================wn4kkn. k4pql 1 howie -====-=================ab4rx-aa6kx= n4zr 22 5owie = nv6o 37 howie ===============-====================-======= . . . howie =========================nv6o. n0ax 1 jackie =n4ogw= wa2srq 4 jack ==k4pql-k0erm# wa2srq 16 dave ============-=============-=======k1ll-kb8n? k8mr 1 jim =-?-=-=========k4pql= n4tqo 99 tycho ==-====k8hvt= n9jf 13 tychoy = w7zrc 56 tycho ========-===============wa2srq-wa6kui? n9jf 1 jim ====================================-=============n4zr. wb0ola 1 jim =========================-================== . . . jim =-====-===-=====-==-=========-===-========-= . . . jim =============-====k8jlf. w0cp 68 jim *=======ab4rx= w3goi 51 noname =====k1ll= wb0ola 48 nonami ==n6tr= k6ll 139 noname ====================-=kk9w. w5asp 1 joe ========-=================================== . . . joe ================================================k1ll= w7zrc 71 john =====-==========ka9fox. k1ar 1 john =ka9fox-w4ydd# k1ll 31 paul -==-=====-=====-========-=========-===n0ax= n4ogw 110 chris ========================n6ip-kp4tk? n2nt 1 john ===n2nt-k0erm# k4pql 8 dave =====-======-=============-================= . . . dave ===-============-============-=====n5rz= ka9fox 50 doug ==-===============k8mr= w0cp 118 boug = kk9w 104 doug =======-===ae0m-kb8n? wn3k 9 john ======-=========-=================-=============aa3b. wo1n 1 ken ==========================-================= . . . ken =======-====-=k8hvt. kb8n 1 paul ==-=====================-===-=============== . . . paul =======wa2srq-w7om? 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WHERE'S K2MM BEEN AND WHAT'S UP WITH JZAP.COM? First, my sincere apologies to all who participated for the lateness of this report. I hope I've been able to make this write-up worth waiting for. My former employer, MasPar Computer, went supernova in early February. It ran out of money, collapsed, and blew off about 70% of its mass. What got left behind is a software-only core now called NeoVista. No need for any of us chip designers. So I've been out of work -- a bum -- since then. Two weeks later, while riding my bicycle with enthusiasm knowable only by the unemployed, I had a minor disagreement with a car that ran a stop sign. My collarbone is just now approaching fully healed. MasPar did, however, let me keep my e-mail accounts active. Best of all, I was able to buy my used SPARCststion-2 from them for cheap. So I arranged with a local ISP to have an ISDN line run to my house. A few weeks earlier, MasPar had moved (nearby), changed its name to NeoVista, changed its ISP, and been totally down for two weeks. I had learned to live a disconnected life. But the PacBell installer showed up two weeks later, hooked me up, and I haven't gotten much sleep since! Once the installation was done, it was very easy to get almost everything else (net)working. FTP, telnet, rlogin, talk, Netscape, ping, finger, etc. Everything except e-mail. My sendmail config file was from MasPar where there's a mail hub on the LAN. Being naked on the net is very different. So I bought the Sendmail handbook and dove into its 800 pages. It took a long time and a lot of reading, but I finally figured out the few small tweaks needed to fix my e-mail. With e-mail working, I felt ready to sign Scott/KA9FOX's web-page guestbook. That set off an e-mail exchange between us. Scott was skeptical that a web server at the end of an ISDN line would anything but lame. I just had to show him it would be OK, so I pulled an all-nighter writing a bare-bones web-server daemon just for a bandwidth test. > [Scott/KA9FOX] Before you even told me to check your site out, just for > the hell of it, I tried to do a http://www.jzap.com. When that didn't > work, I dropped the www and got the laugh of my life!!! That kicks > ass!!!! :-) Hey, the transfer speed was no problem. That was two weeks ago. I've been catching up on a mountain of correspondence and working on the SprINT report since then. Hope you've enjoyed reading it. 73 for now! --jzap John Zapisek K2MM/KE6YNN/WA1MUG