Results - 13th Internet Sprint by K2MM & N6TR The 13th Internet Sprint contest was held on Saturday, the 26th of September. The data crunching required was greatly reduced by the high percentage of logs that were received and they were received quickly after the contest. This has allowed the results to be published in record time. THANKS TO ALL!! There was a significant rule change implemented for this running of the contest. If a QSO was made with someone who didn't send in their log - you didn't get credit for the QSO. As it turned out, due to the large number of logs received, only a couple QSOs were removed from most logs due to this rule. It did not have much of an impact to the scores or final positions. This is also the first time 15 or 10 meters was used. 10 meters wasn't open very well, and received minimal attention. 15 meters was a little iffy before the contest, but by the second hour, it was is pretty good shape for most everyone. Many years ago, at the age of 19, I operated a CD Party from the station of W6DGH (now N6AA). One of my dreams as a kid was to beat W6PAA (aka N6RO or K2EIU). Ken had been winning contests longer than I had been alive, and it seemed to me that anyone that old shouldn't be winning contests. Well, the tables have turned. I can't read the Intel calendar on my neck strap without taking it off, and another teenager is knocking on the door. I speak of none other than Dan Craig, AD6DO, who took second place (and darn near won this thing). Dan was ahead at various points, but the old man decided to get off his rear and pay this kid a lesson. Good think I invested in that big monitor so I can still see the small characters. Judging by Dan's results in this event, and the recent NCJ Sprints, he is going to be dangerous! Third place went to N6TV, followed by N0AX who enjoyed having all the big guns come down and play in his low power category. Rumor has it N0AX and K7RAT are teaming up to sponsor a gift basket of local delights to present to the winner of the low power category in the Honor Sprint. Well, onto the results. Hats off to John, K2MM, for another excellent presentation of the scores and name traces - they are VERY complete. 73 Tree N6TR Internet SprINT Participation Statistics Date 9809 9612 9608 9604 9512 9507 9504 9501 9407 9404 9401 9310 9305 Logs Sub'd 39 48 39 37 49 33 32 29 45 29 30 26 29 Calls Found 56 98 63 62 76 82 50 64 88 54 55 47 74 Reported: 10m QSO 26 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15m QSO 3472 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 20m QSOs 0 0 1587 1915 0 2871 967 0 3258 1457 2170 1552 2471 40m QSOs 0 3961 717 1772 2518 587 1629 2115 247 1081 758 574 2 80m QSOs 0 259 0 0 2080 0 0 619 0 0 0 0 0 QSOs NoMatch 72 675 108 235 368 488 328 348 461 144 156 214 391 QSOs Matched 3426 3545 2194 3452 4230 2970 2268 2386 3044 2394 2772 1912 2082 Total QSOs 3498 4220 2302 3687 4598 3458 2596 2734 3505 2538 2928 2126 2473 Pct. Matched 97.9 84.0 95.3 93.6 92.0 85.9 87.4 87.3 86.8 94.3 94.7 89.9 84.2 #OK = your score #NL = no log from other station #NG = other contacts not credited RXNG = you busted the call/number/name/qth of the station you worked TXNG = the station you worked busted your call/number/name/qth DUPE = you worked the same station within 3 previous non-dupes BCHG = total number of band changes ACCY = #OK / (#OK + #NG) CALL #OK #NL #NG RXNG TXNG DUPE BCHG ACC'Y (each * is 1% > 80%) k7rat (n6tr) 167 2 13 3 11 0 0 92.8 ************ ad6do 164 2 9 2 7 0 0 94.8 ************** n6tv 156 4 7 2 5 0 2 95.7 *************** n0ax 150 4 13 6 8 0 0 92.0 ************ k6la 146 6 6 4 2 0 2 96.1 **************** n5rz 145 0 6 1 5 0 0 96.0 **************** aa3b 142 2 9 3 6 0 0 94.0 ************** kg5u 138 3 5 2 3 0 4 96.5 **************** w4pa 131 0 17 6 7 5 0 88.5 ******** w9wi 129 1 11 4 7 1 2 92.1 ************ n2nc 127 3 4 0 4 0 0 96.9 **************** k1ht 117 1 9 5 4 0 0 92.9 ************ n7lox 112 5 19 13 5 1 2 85.5 ***** w4au 108 0 9 7 2 0 0 92.3 ************ k6km (ae0m) 105 6 13 6 6 2 0 89.0 ******** k4aaa (w4an) 93 0 8 2 4 2 0 92.1 ************ n6pn 89 1 2 2 0 0 0 97.8 ***************** w1nn 89 3 8 3 5 0 0 91.8 *********** n9jf 78 2 3 1 2 0 0 96.3 **************** ve3fu 72 0 11 4 7 0 2 86.7 ****** n7fo (kn5h) 71 1 6 5 1 1 0 92.2 ************ k9ig 68 0 10 5 4 1 2 87.2 ******* k9nx 67 2 5 0 5 0 0 93.1 ************* ki7y 66 3 3 3 0 0 0 95.7 *************** n7wa 64 1 10 5 5 0 2 86.5 ****** kk7gw 55 1 8 2 5 1 0 87.3 ******* n2nt 54 2 3 2 2 0 0 94.7 ************** k6xx 52 0 3 2 1 0 0 94.5 ************** k2mm 44 3 2 2 0 0 2 95.7 *************** k9bg 42 0 2 2 0 0 2 95.5 *************** g4buo 32 1 4 0 4 0 0 88.9 ******** ke9i 32 1 5 4 1 0 6 86.5 ****** nm5m 22 1 5 4 2 0 0 81.5 * w8car 19 0 6 4 1 1 0 76.0 kk6mc 11 1 4 3 2 0 0 73.3 k4ogg 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 100.0 ******************** hb9arf 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 100.0 ******************** w7om 2 0 4 4 1 0 0 33.3 w4ws (n4vhk) 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 0.0 wk2g -47 47 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 No log #OK + #NL + #NG is the raw claimed score. #NG is the number of busted QSOs. Some contacts may be busted for more than one reason, so RXNG + TXNG + DUPE may be greater than #NG. Stations making more than 10 QSOs who did not submit a log were penalized one point per unreported QSO! All entrants' graded logs are being returned to them via e-mail. Also, this report and all the graded logs are available via FTP. Point your browser at ftp://jzap.com/pub/int/ ftp://jzap.com/pub/int/9809/ IN PURSUIT OF PERFECTION Congratulations to our two golden-log entrants: K4OGG with 7 QSOs and HB9ARF with 6. K8MR's record of 46 golden Qs (9512) handily survived! Perfect copy (RXNG=0) was had by N2NC (131 cross-checked QSOs), K9NX (72), and G4BUO (36). Careful sending earned four stations a goose-egg in the TXNG column: N6PN (91), KI7Y (69), K2MM (46), and K9BG (44). It's a shame that none of these stations took more care copying, though, because the TXNG=0 chance for a golden log is an elusive opportunity! GENTLEMEN, START YOUR ENGINES Both of our two top finishers, Bert/K7RAT and Dan/AD6DO, had a slow start in the first half hour. Things started to pick up for Dan about 10 to 15 minutes before they did for Bert. By 1856, Dan had built up a 6-QSO lead. But it wouldn't hold. Dan slumped, and Bert went on a tear. By 1919, the 6-Q lead was reversed. Though Dan was able to pull even at 1931, Bert edged ahead and paced Dan the rest of the way. This graph shows the race between K7RAT and AD6DO minute by minute. The x-axis is a constant rate of 160 QSOs per two hours. Each line above/below the x-axis is one valid QSO more/less than that rate. 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First contest from my new qth! > [Chris/VE3FU] First time in sprINT. My apologies in advance for all the > names I messed up. > [Dan/W8CAR] First time doing file transfer via internet. If I did it > wrong, flame me gently. > [Mike/N7WA] Fun contest - put this up with the Stew Perry for interesting > exchanges. N6TR invented both these contests. When he says, "Have fun!" he means it! > [David/KK7GW] Wow! Lots of fun. Hours went 31 and 33, but for me that's > pretty good. Maybe I'll get a decent antenna sometime! > [Duffey/KK6MC] I had a ball in the contest despite my poor showing (16 > claimed Qs). I ran the contest at 5 watts which is less of a handicap > than my 18 wpm cw ;^). > [Phil/HB9ARF] This is my first participation and I hope everything will > be good. Antenna: Vertical Butternut HF9-VX. Looks like you've stumbled upon Bill/K4AAA/W4AN's other secret weapon! > [Dave/K1HT] It's good to have the SprINT back. Thanks for reviving it. > I hope you receive enough logs to make the name traces viable. Tree/N6TR's energetic and enthusiastic wheedling of logs resulted in a matched-QSO rate of 98% -- by far and away the best ever. Only one log of any importance was missed. The effort needed to do the traces seems to be proportional to the square of the unmatched-QSO rate. The last running had 16% unmatched Qs; this running had 2%. That's a 60:1 ratio of effort. For some runnings, the traces have taken as much as 8-10 hours; for the last running they were impossible; this time they took only 1/2 hour! > [Bob/K6XX] Saturday mid morning/early afternoon is a poor time for a > short contest due to the multiple commitments many of us have on weekends. > The contest isn't long enough to plan the day around, so it has to fit in > between other tasks. A weeknight might attract more participation. > [Rod/W7OM] Just got started when interruptions overcame the event. > Looked like fun at the start then everything went bananas. Bananas are good for you! Lots of potassium! > [Gator/N5RZ] Early on, there were only a few audible stations. It was > frustrating being on the wrong end of the QSO, and either not hearing the > guy they were working, or else calling the frequency recipient and getting > beat out. I couldn't even get 3 qsos to work the loud guys again!! I had the same experience. For long stretches, there seemed to be only three workable stations. It was tough finding that fourth station so I could work the loud three all over again! > [Tony/AE0M/K6KM] Guess I'm going to have to accept the fact that the main > limitation to my Sprint scores is the operator and not the station. > Bill Snider's mountain top QTH plays VERY WELL on 15m! > [Greg/K9IG] My daughter, Alyssa, passed her Novice test this summer. > That was our summer project together. She passed the theory a week before > her 9th birthday and the code was 3 weeks later. She's KB9THU. > [Mike/N7WA] Everytime I turned around, N0AX was clamoring for a Q. Just > had to say no sometimes ;>) Sometimes what those QSO addicts really need is just some hard love! > [Henry/N4VHK/W4WS] My apologies to the 2 stations I worked... Couldn't > hear a thing. I'm sure K6KM and N7LOX appreciate your apologies. They sent you DALE and DAVE, but you logged DAVE and DALE! Bzzzt! > [Henry/N4VHK/W4WS] Two QSOs. All right, I had a bad time here. My > station was hit by lightning 2 weeks ago. Lost all transceivers. I > decided to try the SprINT on the Johnson Valiant / Hammarlund HQ-160. > After 2 qso's and a crummy T/R switch, I went to the W4NC station for a > loaner TS-440. By the time I got back, it was time to quit. But it was > sure fun to get the old stuff out again. Think I'll make them a permanant > part of the station. > [Dave/K9NX] If you didn't acknowledge receipt you may not be in the log, > amigos. There was one 6-land station who was particularly bad about this! The only station who claimed an unmatched QSO with you was AD6DO. OTOH, the only station with whom YOU claimed an unmatched QSO was K6LA, who, at the time, was working AD6DO instead! FIFTEEN METERS IS A VERY DIFFERENT BEAST > [Scott/W4PA] The band was way too long for the east coast. I could hear > lots of W6/W7, some weak Texas, and Europe. The west coast was weak, but > boy AD6DO was about 3 or 4 S-units louder than anyone else from out west. > [Hose/KN5H/N7FO] Could barely hear K7RAT, no 6's at all. Got beat out by > AD6DO at least 10 times. > [John/W4AU] N0AX was the biggest signal in NW Virginia, but I'm glad this > contest doesn't have mults as the skip was long for me. > [Ward/N0AX] Plenty of activity. It was a very good thing the ionosphere > calmed down enough. Could barely hear OR and CA, but good sigs from > Midwest and East Coast. [Ward is near Seattle.] > [Jerry/K9BG] Not much on ten and could only hear the 6's and 7's on 15. > [Dave/K9NX] Very frustrating. Seems like California was all I really had > propagation to from the upper midwest. [42 Q's out of 74 were with CA.] > Heard/worked a few stations back east and Texas, but they were all 20 dB > or more down from the guys in CA. > [Dave/K1HT] Propagation there was such that I could barely hear anyone > east of the Mississippi. Nearly all my QSOs were with folks in 6, 7, and > 5 land. It was nice to work G4BUO (twice) and HB9ARF. > [Dave/G4BUO] Really tough trying to work you guys on 21 MHz with 150 W > under these conditions! Anyway here are my 37 QSOs. > [Gator/N5RZ] Skip was rather long for most of the first hour. Things > picked up the 2nd hour when skip to the west got real good and I could > work the 6's and 7's real easy. Even though the skip was long, W4PA was a > beacon through the whole test. The first hour saw 46% of the total QSOs; the second hour saw 54%. The standard rule of thumb for weak stations in the NA Sprint is to call CQ. For me in this contest, operating with a puny antenna from my apartment in San Francisco, exactly the opposite seemed true. CQ'ing got zilch. At least 4/5 of my Qs were made by calling the other guy. Of those, no more than three or four resulted in somebody calling me when I got the frequency. Yes, 15m is really different! THE BRAVE FEW WHO TRIED TEN > [Gator/N5RZ] Listened & CQ'd several times on 10M, but nada. > [Dave/K1HT] I looked around on 10 just before the start and could neither > hear nor raise any other SprINTers, so I spent the whole time on 15. > [Dave/K9NX] 10M skip was very long. Lots of EA sations booming in, but > no stateside. N7LOX was the only station heard on 10M, and he was at the > noise level and couldn't hear me. [No QSOs on 10] > [Scott/W4PA] 10 was open to Europe but not anywhere in the USA, it > appeared. [No Qs] > [Duffey/KK6MC] I went up to 10 M and heard one SprINT exchange, but was > unable to raise anyone. [No Qs] > [John/W4AU] Listened a little on 10, but never heard anyone. [No Qs] > [Tony/AE0M/K6KM] I wasted some time in the first 10 minutes checking 10m > three times for activity. Spent the balance on 15m. [No Qs] > [Mike/N7WA] Kept checking 10M - only one Q with Texas. > [Chris/VE3FU] I checked 10m a few times and all I heard were EA stations > working a different contest. I called CQ a few times and worked KG5U. He > was the only other SprINTer I heard on 10. > [Bob/N6TV] I made two QSOs on 10. Band open, but no action. Maybe next > time everyone has to use 10 for the first hour and 15 for the second? Nope. Too much chance of sticking everyone on a dead band. Yuk! > [Ken/K6LA] The 3 QSOs on 10 were about 10 minutes into the 2nd hour, and > all were LOUD. I was surprised there wasn't more activity on 10. I had the same experience on 10. Somehow, just past mid-way through the contest, it felt like time to check 10. Seems like several others felt similarly. Had no trouble making 3 Qs. But I'm not surprised there wasn't more activity. With this contest's dupe rule and the non-existence of multipliers, there's little reason to leave a better band for a poorer one. Here are all the stations making QSOs on 10 meters: 6 kg5u 3 k6la 1 w9wi 1 n7lox 4 k9ig 3 k2mm 1 ve3fu 1 k9bg 3 ke9i 2 n6tv 1 n7wa MARCH OF THE CLUELESS BRIGADE This running saw very few clueless ops clobber the name propagation by sending their own name on every QSO. It's a tribute to the NA Sprint's popularity that operators can accidentally stumble onto a contest and know what exchange to send. Good thing they also didn't know they could work dupes! Here are the reconstructed clueless logs. See if your name met an ignominious fate :-) 15 1937 k6km 104 gator ca aa8tk 1 evan mi 15 1938 k6la 129 dink ca aa8tk 2 evan mi 15 1851 k6km 48 spock ca n5lf 1 alan tx 15 1852 k9nx 30 emily wi n5lf 2 alan tx 15 1830 n0ax 37 john wa w3tt 1 rat de 15 1832 ad6do 42 bigfoot ca w3tt 2 bat de 15 1809 k1ht 11 matt ma k6xv 1 bob ca 15 1811 aa3b 14 doug pa k6xv 2 bob ca 15 1828 ke9i 7 qth in k6xv 10 bob ca #3 15 1836 w9wi 38 john tn k6xv 10 bob ca #4 15 1855 w1nn 40 tony ct k6xv 5 bob ca SHERLOCK TRACY, CONSULTING DETECTIVE I actually do live on Baker Street :-) Watch out, Dr. Moriarity! For an explanation of the name-trace symbols ( = - + * # . ) see the Reader's Guide to SprINT Name Traces at the end of this report. > [Mike/N7WA] Didn't hear too many mangled names except BRUNNIC or BRUNNINC > or BRUN or whatever. I like RAT and it came around several times. I know > one thing, DINK goes into a black hole and never comes out. Sorry Ward, > the name MARY just did not compute! Your black hole is named AA8TK. (See above.) > [Jerry/K9BG] Sent my name, Brunning, as the first qso name. It became > somewhat butchered during the contest. I can't remember when a legitimate name like that has ever suffered so much mayhem! It survived only two hops before mutating in the QSO between AD6DO and W4AU: k9bg 1 brunning ==ad6do= w4au 10 brunninc ======n9jf= ad6do 28 brunnic ===============n5rz= k6km 41 brunninc ===========n2nc-wk2g= n7lox 70 brunnic ===k2mm k2mm 26 zap -==-==================ad6do+k9nx Seeing the overpopulation of BRUNNICs, I changed one to ZAP (above). But fittingly, another had sprung into life 10 minutes earlier when W4PA thought he had worked me, though I scratched that Q because I didn't hear his QSL: w4pa 65 brunninc *========================n6tv= w1nn 59 brunnic = ki7y 58 brunninc ===========k6km-wk2g= n6tv 125 brunnic ==k1ht= nm5m 14 brunic =n7wa n7wa 58 dink ====k6la-aa8tk# As you can see above, N7WA thought as I had and changed a BRUNIC to DINK. And BRUNNINC caused grief to BRIAN, almost capturing it twice in one trace, and successfully capturing it and BILL in two others: n7lox 1 brian ===========k4aaa= n7wa 9 brun =============kk7gw= n0ax 33 brian ====k7rat= w4au 29 brun =====n0ax= k1ht 32 brian =========================================== . . . brian ==========================-================ . . . brian ========k9bg. g4buo 1 dave ==k7rat= n0ax 15 brian =========================================== . . . brian ========================-=====-============ . . . brian ==============n6tv= w8car 24 brunnic = ki7y 71 brunninc =aa3b= n7lox 136 brunnic =k1ht= n6pn 92 brunninc . ki7y 1 jim ========================================w9wi= kk6mc 10 -- kk6mc 11 jim ========ad6do= w9wi 80 bill ======================-=k6km= aa3b 109 brunninc =====n2nt= n5rz 115 runninc = ad6do 138 brunninc =w9wi= k1ht 99 brunnic = k6km 106 brunninc =====n7wa= n7lox 120 brunnic =========kg5u= w4pa 147 brunninc =n5rz. Speaking of Brian/N7LOX, the logging program he uses sure has a personality! Here we see him being sent HOSE by one station, sending HOSE to the next station, but putting SPOCK in his log: n7fo 1 hose =========w9wi= n7lox 26 spock = k1ht 26 hose =======================kg5u-wb8e? And though Brian's log generally had all QSO times correct (1800-2000), one QSO with VE3FU was off by nine hours! Must be alpha particles getting into his DRAM :-) > [Scott/W4PA] I used my wife's name MARY at the beginning and only got it > back twice the whole contest. Some other ones (like GATOR) I got over and > over. I assume that DAT and BAT were variations of RAT....? RAT and BAT were clueless emissions from W3TT. BAT became DAT and then became a second RAT. > [Hose/KN5H/N7FO] Copied HORG and BRQRS. Wonder how wrong I got those. > [Dave/K1HT] I actually got my own name back [HOAG] -- once early (intact) > and then later in mangled form. k1ht 1 hoag ========n2nc= w4au 9 horg =========================================== . . . horg ==========================ad6do=w4pa? When you receive an obscene name like DrQRP, the SprINT rules encourage you to replace it with something less profane: kk6mc 1 drqrp ========k2mm k2mm 6 drqro ==========k4aaa= k7rat 34 drqso ======k6km= k9ig 56 brqso =============k9ig= n7fo 70 brqrs +w4au n7lox 22 drqro *========k7rat= w7om 6 drago . > [Bob/K6XX] I neglected to change the keyer messages, so started sending > "BOB" to the first four Qs. I resent them by hand. I hope I didn't cost > those guys points. Later, when we were deluged by Bobs (not an altogether > bad situation, IMHO), I changed one to "EMILY". None of the three extra BOBs you sent was logged by the stations you worked. They all copied your re-sent correction OK. You're off the hook! > [Scott/W4PA] YYiiIiiiiiiIIIIII WAS 606 A permutation of BOB??? > [Doug/W9WI] I suspect N0AX sent me "b0b" as revenge for my sending him > "6o6". I forgive him. > [Ward/N0AX] Who started "BRUNNINC" and "b0b"? Argggghhh! Boil 'em in > hot tube coolant! No Dereks! > [Doug/W9WI] I plead guilty to introducing the name "6o6". I think K6LA > was trying to send "BOB", but when I asked him to repeat, his bug sent > "6o6" again, so that's what I logged. Bingo! Though K6XX and N6TV both started with BOB, it was one of the K6XV BOBs that became cancerous. Absolutely amazing: k6xv 1 bob =======================================k6la= w9wi 69 6o6 =n0ax= k1ht 61 606 ==w4pa= n7lox 74 b0b ===========w4pa= kg5u 85 606 ==w4pa= k6km 89 b0b ====w1nn= k7rat 126 bob =======================================k6km. > [Ken/K6LA] Never heard my name after I sent it the first time. Sure were > alot of Hillary's, Hil's, Bill's, Bob's, Mary's and John's out there. > [Scott/W4PA] I swear I heard BILLARY at the beginning, and that's what I > logged. > [Hillary/N0AX] Was I supposed to send this log to you, Tree? I forgot > and deleted the announcement. Duh... That's not all you forgot, Ward. You forgot to tell us your starting name: n0ax 1 -- = aa3b 2 hillary ==ve3fu= n6tv 6 billary ====n0ax= ve3fu 7 hillary ======kk7gw= k1ht 19 hilary ===k7rat= ki7y 5 hillary =======================================-=== . . . hillary ======================================kg5u= k9ig 78 hilary =n6tv. > [Bob/N6TV] Sorry I couldn't complete more than one QSO with you, Tree. I > liked your initial name, "QTH". Clever! At least N6TR didn't start with the name NAME. So, who's on first? > [Andy/N2NT] Here is the best I could do: Staring name = ANDY Yeah. Kinda lame compared to QTH ;-) TECHNO-BABBLE > [Bill/W4AN/K4AAA] Fired up the remote control station from here at the > house. Imagine working the contest from two applications within Windows. > One is a DOS window where I do the logging. The other is a Windows > application that controls the radio, antennas, keying, etc. The DOS > application [logging] can NOT send CW to the windows application [radio]. > All of the keying I did was by typing what I wanted to be sent. Tree swears one of the most valuable courses he took in school was High School Typing! > [Bill/W4AN/K4AAA] I tried to call a different remote station on Vashon > Island in Washington, but the modem didn't answer. Not sure how Tree > would have scored my entry if I had operated from two states in the same 2 > hour contest. :) We'd likely have to invent a special one-man club-competition category just for you. Hey, with your own category, you're guaranteed to be a winner! > [John/W4AU] This is my best sprint result; finally feeling like I was in > the swing of things right from the start. Only got choked up with the > computer once (me, not TRLog). > [Bob/K6XX] Great grief when 1800Z rolled up. The trusty TR-Log SprINT > config file (unused for 2.5 years) refused to key the transmitter! With > TR-Log, in the midst of a Q, one cannot see the name of the previous Q. > [Jim/N9JF] How did we ever do this one without TRlog???? Actually, because of the dupe rule, this is one contest where paper logging is fast and easy! REMAINING NAME TRACES n5lf 1 alan =======-====================-==============n5rz= n7lox 107 mary ===========================k9nx. n2nt 1 andy ========-================================== . . . andy ====================k2mm. ad6do 1 bigfoot ========================ad6do-w3tt# k4aaa 1 bill ==kk7gw= w7om 5 carl =======================n9jf= ke9i 18 karl =k7rat= n0ax 56 carl ===========w1nn= ke9i 24 karl ===========-===================n2nc= w1nn 71 doug ==-===============k9nx= w4pa 142 tony ====ki7y. w7gkf 1 bill =========================================== . . . bill ======-=====================-=====================k6la. k8wi 13 bill ========================================hb9arf. n7wa 49 bill *============================================w1nn. k6xx 1 bob =========================================-= . . . bob ===============================kg5u-k8wi? n6tv 1 bob =========================================== . . . bob =-=====w4pa+k2mm k6km 122 bob *===g4buo. aa3b 1 bud ============g4buo= w4au 16 bub = n7lox 21 bob +n7wa ve3fu 1 chris ==================n6tv= ke9i 5 chirs = n6pn 13 chris ==================-======================== . . . chris ========-==========================aa3b. w1nn 54 chris *======================================================n2nc. kg5u 1 dale =====================n2nc= n7lox 24 dave = w4ws 2 dale . w8car 1 dan ====================================k9ig. k9nx 1 dave =========================================== . . . dave =-======-==================kk6mc. kk7gw 1 david =======k6xx k6xx 3 dave =n6tv= aa3b 12 bob =================================-=====n6tv-wk2g= kk6mc 8 hal =========k6xx. n7wa 1 dink =====k6xx k6xx 4 dale ==k6km= w4ws 2 dave =========================================== . . . dave ===w1nn+kk6mc w9wi 1 doug =======aa3b-k6xv# ke9i 8 bob ============================k6xx k6xx 34 emily ====k9nx-n5lf# k9nx 3 doug *========================================== . . . doug =================-========================n7wa. nm5m 1 eric =====================n6tv-wk2g= k6km 110 erin =============kg5u= ve3fu 76 eric ===========k1ht. aa8tk 1 evan =======-============n0ax. n5rz 1 gator =========================================== . . . gator =========================================== . . . gator ======================k6km-aa8tk# k6la 130 evan =======aa3b+kk7gw k9ig 1 greg ======================k4ogg. w1nn 1 hal =======k6la-wk2g= n0ax 48 sal = n7lox 43 hal ===-===n5rz= k6xx 35 hil =========================================== . . . hil ====================================k7rat= w8car 25 hill . w4ws 1 henry ===k7rat= k6km 16 tony =========================================== . . . tony =================================ke9i. k4ogg 1 jay =============================================n0ax= k6km 112 tony ========k6km+n5rz n7wa 53 jay *========================n7fo. wk2g 1 joe =====================-===================== . . . joe ==================k7rat= w8car 3 woe =nm5m= w4pa 109 joe =-===========================n0ax= nm5m 28 jay . n2nc 1 john =============w9wi-k6xv# w1nn 41 bob ============================-============== . . . bob ==========k9nx= n7fo 52 bill =============================w4au. w4au 1 john =======================n0ax-w3tt# ad6do 43 bat ==k7rat= w1nn 25 dat ================-====n6tv= k6xx 52 rat =========================================-= . . . rat ============-==================w9wi. k6la 1 ken =w9wi= n6tv 4 doug =========================================== . . . doug =======-============n7wa+w4pa w4pa 1 mary ==================================k7rat= k6km 37 mark ==n7wa= w4au 46 mary ==============================-============ . . . mary ========-=========================kk7gw. ad6do 131 mary *============n2nt. n6pn 1 matt =====k1ht-k6xv# aa3b 15 bob =========================================== . . . bob ======-==================================== . . . bob =====-==================================n7lox. hb9arf 1 phil ===============-========-================== . . . phil =====================================kk7gw= kg5u 146 hil . n9jf 1 poppy ===k9nx+k6la k7rat 1 qth ===============ke9i-k6xv# w9wi 39 bob ==============n2nc= n7lox 54 bobck = n0ax 62 bob ================================-=====n7wa+k9ig w3tt 1 rat ==========================================- . . . rat ====-====================k6la+g3buo w7om 1 rod =========aa3b= k2mm 7 ron =====w7om= k7rat 32 bob ===========-=============================== . . . bob =========================================kg5u-wk2g? ke9i 1 spock ==================================k6km-n5lf# k9nx 31 alan ====================k4aaa. k6km 1 tony =========================================== . . . tony =========w1nn-k6xv# n7fo 71 tony *=========w4pa. aa3b 141 tony *==============n9jf. k6la 151 tony *=====ve3fu. wb8e 13 walt =========================================== . . . walt ==============k7rat. k2mm 1 zap ======n9jf-w7gkf? READER'S GUIDE TO SPRINT NAME TRACES wa1mug 1 john ==w1ua= kz4h 8 jon ===-===w6go. WA1MUG started with the name John. The first station he worked got the name OK, then passed it to W1UA. The name John showed up OK in all three logs. W1UA then worked KZ4H who recorded Jon in his log. Either W1UA mis-sent the name or KZ4H mis-copied or mis-logged the name on his QSO #7. KZ4H then passed Jon along to the next station he worked with his QSO #8. Jon survived until W6GO copied it on his last QSO. It showed up in the logs of all stations in between, except for one station who did not send one in. wb2oeu 1 fred =====-=====-=====wb2rkk-wb2woi= wa2uwa 17 stinky -===-========-?-=========wa2eah-wa2ccf? WB2OEU started with Fred which showed up OK in WB2RKK's log. RKK then worked WB2WOI who did not send in a log. But WOI's next QSO# was found in WA2UWA's log, and UWA recorded Stinky. The error may have occurred anywhere between RKK sending and UWA receiving. UWA then passed Stinky with his QSO #17, and Stinky eventually made it into WA2EAH's enormous log. EAH then worked WA2CCF, who did not send in a log, and the trace was lost. Along the way, the name passed through at least two consecutive stations who did not send in logs. This made manual suturing of the traces necessary. k2kir 1 howie =========wa2spl= w2mta sowie w2mta 20 bill =========w2fr w2fr 30 dill =========wb2drw. K2KIR started with Howie. WA2SPL said he copied and sent Howie, but W2MTA said he copied Sowie. MTA's log also said he found Sowie offensive, so he changed it to Bill before sending it with his QSO #20. W2FR copied Bill OK, but his log said he's always had trouble sending Bill, so he changed it to Dill before passing it on with his #30. k1znd 12 dave *========wa1hco-wa1iqj# wa1pid 73 don ==========================wb2fzo+k2eiu K1ZND worked someone on his QSO #11 who sent him Dave -- or so he thought. The other station didn't think the QSO complete, and so continued by sending Dave on his next QSO without putting ZND in his log. Meanwhile, ZND blissfully passed on the freshly cloned Dave with his #12. Dave made it OK to WA1HCO who passed it to WA1IQJ. But IQJ was cluelessly sending Don to everybody, including the next station he worked, WA1PID. This Don survived until he got to WB2FZO. FZO thought he passed Don to K2EIU, but EIU was really working someone else, so Don fell on the floor.