The Two-Meter Classic Sprint series continued with sprints held the first Saturdays of October and November. Several familiar call signs appear in the results of both sprints, and with only two more sprints to go, opportunities for overtaking the leaders in each category are fast disappearing! The November and December sprint will finish up this year’s sprints and final results will be published following the December sprint.
A big thank you to all our sprint participants! Your participation has helped bring some good activity to the two-meter band. As we move forward in the future, I hope to see all your call signs in many future on-air events and VHF contests.
73 de Jim, AC9EZ, contest organizer
| Base category – high power | September sprint | ||
| Call sign | Placement | Number of QSOs | Points earned |
| KO9A | 1st | 8 | 10 |
| W3LL | 2nd | 2 | 8 |
* All placements lower than 3rd receive an equal number of points.
| Rover category – low power | September sprint | ||
| Call sign | Placement | Number of QSOs | Points earned |
| K9JK/R | 1st | 8 | 10 |
| WB4GZK/R | 2nd | 1 | 8 |
| SWL (Shortwave listener) | October sprint |
| Call Sign | |
| NY1V | |
| AC9EZ* |
*Contest Organizer
Soapbox comments for September sprint:
“I didn’t try to recruit any other local activity than my ‘captive fixed station’, KO9A, so Jim was my only QSO partner. We completed our 8 possible QSOs in less than 13 minutes, 1 SSB QSO (on 144.210) and 1 CW QSO (on 144.090) from each of the 4 grids I visited (EN51, EN52, EN62 and EN61). Jim and I traded calling CQs for the remaining 17 minutes with Jim calling in different directions as he rotated his beam while I called in all directions due to the omni-directional loop antenna on the ‘CoROVERolla’ but neither of our calls managed to attract any other stations.”
73, JK (K9JK/R)
“The APRS map indicated a good opening from here, and I was hearing a lot of dx on the repeater frequencies. After 1/2 hour of calling cq on ~144.200, only one local station heard and worked.”
Bo WB4GZK/R
“Much better participation this time. I think people are finding out about it.” K3ZO
“Thanks again for sponsoring this sprint series! Fun to pull out the mic and CW paddles!” KO9A
“Alternated between calling CQ and listening on both SSB and CW nothing heard in EM69. I’m glad the 7300 has a voice recorder for calling CQ!”
Rick NY1V
Year-to-date points earned and placement following September sprint:
| Base Category – High Power | |||
| Call sign | Current placement | Total number of points earned | Number of sprints entered |
| KO9A | 1st-tied | 35 | 4 |
| K3ZO | 1st-tied | 25 | 3 |
| W3LL | 2nd | 22 | 3 |
| N0HJZ | 3rd | 10 | 1 |
| WA9TT | 4th – tied | 6 | 1 |
| W0ZF | 4th – tied | 6 | 1 |
| NY1V | 4th – tied | 6 | 4 (three times as SWL) |
| Base category – low power | |||
| Call sign | Current placement | Total number of points earned | Number of sprints entered |
| N8URE | 1st | 10 | 1 |
| AC9EZ* | – | 20 | 4 (twice as SWL) |
| W9TSB* | – | 10 | 1 |
- Contest organizers – Not eligible for placement awards.
| Rover category – low power | |||
| Call sign | Current placement | Total number of points earned | Number of sprints entered |
| K9JK/R | 1st | 40 | 4 |
| WB4GZK/R | 2nd – tied | 23 | 4 (once as SWL) |
| W9SZ/R | 3rd – tied | 8 | 1 |
| W9SAN/R | 3rd – tied | 8 | 1 |
| Base category – high power | October sprint | ||
| Call sign | Placement | Number of QSOs | Points earned |
| KO9A | 1st | 8 | 10 |
| NY1V | 2nd | 1 | 8 |
- All placements lower than 3rd receive an equal number of points.
| Rover category – low power | October Sprint | ||
| Call sign | Placement | Number of QSOs | Points earned |
| K9JK/R | 1st | 8 | 10 |
| SWL (shortwave listener) | October sprint |
| Call sign | |
| NY1V | |
| AC9EZ* |
*Contest organizer
October Sprint Soapbox:
“Again, KO9A was my ‘captive fixed station’ partner as I was his ‘captive rover’.
First SSB QSO was completed on 144.210 but we hopped up to 144.220 since we heard a station in a ragchew QSO on 144.210 as I was moving to my second grid. No other activity noted on 144.090 for CW, though, so all 4 of the CW QSOs were on that frequency. As we did in September, Jim and I completed our 8 QSOs in just under 13 minutes and we traded off CQing for the remainder of the half hour to no responses.”
Knock on wood, I’ll be on (and KO9A, too, I hope) for the November and December dates.
de JK (K9JK/R)
“Thanks for the 2m SSB/CW tries! Ended up catching K9JK/R in all of his grids. Heard W9ZIH but couldn’t get his attention.”
de Jim (KO9A)
Year-to-date points earned and placement following October sprint:
| Base category – high power | |||
| Call sign | Current placement | Total number of points earned | Number of sprints entered |
| KO9A | 1st-tied | 45 | 5 |
| K3ZO | 1st-tied | 25 | 3 |
| W3LL | 2nd | 22 | 3 |
| NY1V | 3rd | 14 | 5 (three times as SWL) |
| N0HJZ | 3rd | 10 | 1 |
| WA9TT | 4th – tied | 6 | 1 |
| W0ZF | 4th – tied | 6 | 1 |
| Base category – low power | |||
| Call sign | Current placement | Total number of points earned | Number of sprints entered |
| N8URE | 1st | 10 | 1 |
| AC9EZ* | – | 20 | 5 (twice as SWL) |
| W9TSB* | – | 10 | 1 |
- Contest organizers – Not eligible for placement awards.
| Rover category – low power | |||
| Call sign | Current placement | Total number of points earned | Number of sprints entered |
| K9JK/R | 1st | 50 | 5 |
| WB4GZK/R | 2nd – tied | 23 | 4 (once as SWL) |
| W9SZ/R | 3rd – tied | 8 | 1 |
| W9SAN/R | 3rd – tied | 8 | 1 |