Friday night I was able to participate in my first NA RTTY Sprint contest. In a sprint, after you make a QSO, you take over the frequency for the next QSO. After the next QSO, you need to relinquish the current frequency and QSY to another frequency. I watched for a couple mins to see how the sequences went and jumped in. It’s a 4 hour contest and I was able to make 98 Q’s. Here’s the score summary:

        Band    QSOs     Pts  Sec
         3.5      57      57   16
           7      41      41   17
       Total      98      98   33

            Score : 3,234

Saturday was the Idaho QSO Party which goes from Sat afternoon through Sun afternoon for 24 total hours. I could only find and make contact with 5 different stations for 6 total contacts. I wanted to get an Idaho QSO confirmed on CW and phone for the Triple Play. At least one phone contact has been confirmed but nothing yet on the only CW contact I could find and make. I’ll keep my fingers crossed on that one. Here’s the score summary for the Idaho QSO Party:

        Band  Mode  QSOs    Pts  Sec
          14  CW       1      2    1
          14  RTTY     1      2    1
          14  USB      4      4    4
       Total  Both     6      8    6

            Score : 48

Sunday afternoon through the evening, the Wisconsin QSO Party ran for 7 hours.  Much easier to make contacts there. About halfway through the contest I was shooting for a Q with half the 72 counties in Wisconsin and about 10 mins before the end, I checked off county number 36.  Here’s the score summary for the Wisconsin QSO Party:

        Band  Mode  QSOs     Pts  Sec
         3.5  CW      18      36    5
         3.5  LSB      8       8    3
           7  CW      22      44   18
           7  LSB     19      19   10
       Total  Both    67     107   36

            Score : 3,852

73,
K2DSL