European Sprint Contest - Spring CW -  April 16, 2005
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October 2004 brought me another challange in the world of
amateur radio. I was surprised and honored when EU Sprint
guys invited me to replace Ben, DL6RAI and become the 4th
member of the EU Sprint gang.
As an active contester for a decade I always wondered how
it feels to be on the other side of the contest - your job
starts when others are done with their.

One thing that I always loved about European Sprint is its 
transparent work - you could always see why you lost your
points and why others lost their - thing that makes this
contest being a real challange to manage.

My first asignment started on April 16th 2005 - Spring CW
Sprint. Now that it's done I can say it was one of the most
exciting ones. Noone made it to cross the 200 QSOs line which
gave me a less headache but that was also a surprise - just
a week before that in SSB Sprint 300 QSOs limit has been
passed. The Sprint activity was not the problem but the other
contests going on at same time were. However the participants
remained very focused and there's nice number of stations that
made the rigorous log checking without a single mistake;
unfortunatly there were others that lost contacts for having 
an obvious QSO with station not participating the Sprint.

There were two battle fields. In first one - High power,
Ton ES5TV, who normally has no problems winning a Sprint was
challanged by Sas, 9A5Y. Tonno made it with just few QSOs ahead
using his 20m and SO2R advantage. For the third time 3rd place
is won by Dave, G4BUO.
In low power field a big battle was going on between two LIDs:
9A7P and DJ1YFK. DJ1YFK had obvious problems on 20m with people
to log him - so his advantage was lost and 1st place is took
over by 9A7P. 3rd place was won by Nik, HB9CZF who is getting 
better and better from Sprint to Sprint. 

On the end I can say this is sure one of the best expiriences 
for me. A big thank you goes to all the World Wide Young
Contesters that put up great activities for last couple of years
in this contest. WWYC group is incorporating with this contest
on the highest possible level. You can see results of the youth
creativity, serious work and importance.
New website www.eusprint.com has been created by 2 WWYCers which
gives EU Sprint contest a lot of new posibilities; Sprint's
activity is rapidly increasing with many new and young people.
A way for others to think about including young people into
their projects.

The UBN, as usual, will be public and available for everyone 
on our web page, just click on a callsign to see the UBN report. 
If you have any questions pertaining to the log checking 
procedure, please don't hesitate to ask.

Thanks for your entry, 73!

Hrle - 9A6XX  & the EU Sprint Gang

                    UA3VFI
                    ALEX
                    CW
                    ADDR1
                    ADDR2
                    ADDR3
                    ADDR4
04/16/05 1540    1  20 YU1ZZ                1  ______   039       MILAN    
04/16/05 1545    2  20 M0BBB                2  ______   028       STEVE    
04/16/05 1612    3  20 G4PIQ                3  ______   059       ANDY     
04/16/05 1620    4  20 G3VHB                4  ______   050       KIT      
04/16/05 1630    5  20 DL1JF                5  ______   023       HERMAN   
04/16/05 1722    6  20 S58A                 6  ______   119       BORIS    

Log checking report for station UA3VFI

This is a report of QSOs deleted from your log due to errors found
by the checking procedure. The last column in the listing shows why
the QSO was deleted.

Date     UTC   QRG  sent#  Call        Name   rcvd#    Error/Correction
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04/16/05 1545  20m    002  M0BBB       STEVE    028    (6) 027

Legend

 (1) Call wrong. QSO was found in another station's log with a similar 
     callsign.
 (2) QSO is in other station's log but not at this time 
     (within 5 minutes) and band.
 (3) Your call was miscopied in the other log. 
 (4) Not in log. This was not a good QSO.
 (5) Name miscopied - we have other station's log.
 (6) Number miscopied - we have other station's log.
 (7) Name miscopied - many others have worked the same station 
     with a different name. We have no log from him but the fact is
     proven by majority.
 (8) Callsign miscopied - many others have worked a station with
     a similar callsign and this very name. We have no log from him 
     but the fact is proven by majority.
 (9) QSO invalid. Either number or name missing, callsign incomplete
     or impossible or QSO manually deleted for other reasons.
(10) Wrong Band.
(11) This QSO is a dupe.
      
In cases (1), (2) and (3) the QSO is being deleted both in your and the
other station's log. In all other cases, the QSO is deleted in your log
only.

Reversed UBN report for station UA3VFI

This is a report of QSOs deleted from other entrants log due to
errors - somehow - caused by you. The last column in the listing
shows why the QSO was deleted.
Please use the same legend as for the regular UBN report.

DJ1YFK       16/04/2005 16:36 049 ALEX             006 (4)