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The Spartan Sprints
Spartan Sprints are two-hour gatherings sponsored by the Adventure Radio Society, held the first Monday of every month.
The Spartan Sprints have a unique, three-faceted focus. They encourage outdoor operation with back country radio gear (if outdoor operation isn't practical, home-based operation is fine). They gather fascinating information about the upper atmosphere, documenting how low power signals can travel long distancs. And they encourage the growth of a like-minded community of amateur radio operator who generously share their knowedge and experiences.
What Time
Eastern Central Mountain Pacific
UTC During
Standard Time
UTC During
Daylight Time
Start at 9PM
End at 11PM
Start at 8PM
End at 10 PM
Start at 7PM
End at 9 PM
Start at 6PM
End at 8PM
Start at 0200
End at 0400
Start at 0100
End at 0300
Which Bands
The bands will be 80 meters, 40 meters, 20 meters, 15 meters and 10 meters. You may operate any number of bands—your choice. Many Spartan Sprint operators gravitate to the QRP CW calling frequencies on these bands.
Equipment and Antennas
Spartan Sprinters use 5 Watts or less. We encourage you to experiment with 1 Watt or less. You will be surprised at how effective these low levels can be, and how much fun QRPp really is. Similarly, we encourage you to experiment with simple wire antennas. And we encourage sprinters to use equpment they built from "scratch," that is equipment built from schematics.
Exchange
Exchange RST, SPC (state, province or country) and power output. If you choose to call CQ, use the format "CQ SP," or "CQ QRP TEST." Give yourself one point for each contact. You can give yourself credit for working the same station on a second, third, or fourth band.
See the Propagation Conditions Predicted for This Month's Sprint
This link will take you to a summary of the propagation conditions predicted for this month's sprint. Propagation January 2009
Submit Your Spartan Sprint Log
Use the linked page to log your results for the Spartan Sprint. We are now using streamlined logging system that's a lot more joyful than the spreadsheet we tried during the past 12 months. Try it--you'll like it. SS Log Submission
Check out the Spartan Sprint Results
The results of each month's contest appear roughly a week after the Sprint. The latest available results are SS Results 01-09; you can find results from previous months in the list of links in the right-hand sidebar of that page.
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Spartan Sprint Rules
The exchange is RST-SPC-PWR, as in 559 VA 5W. The frequencies are +/- a few KHz around 3560, 7030/7040, 14060, 21060, 28060. Most of the 40m activity is still around 7040.
We report scores in two ways. The Skinny Division reports scores as a ratio of contacts to the weight of the station. The Tubby Division reports scores as the number of contacts.
"Station Weight" is defined as the combined weight of:
- all transmitters, receivers or transceivers (which must include a complete enclosure with no exposed PCB circuitry or components).
- keys, keyers, paddles,
- headphones or speakers,
- power supplies (batteries, batteries holders, AC power supplies, solar panels, etc.)
-all interconnecting cables and connectors, up to, and including, the RF power output connector,
- any computer connected to the radio,
That is, everything between the operator and the radio power output connector that is used during the Sprint.
"Station Weight" does not include:
- antennas, tuners, towers, supports, feedlines and feedline connectors,
- computers NOT connected to the radio.
You may report your weight to the nearest 10th of a pound, or, at your option, the nearest 100th of a pound. For stations weighing less than one pound, we recommend use of a U.S. Post Office scale and to the nearest 100th of a pound.
We would like to mos. Packaging is one of the legitimate elements of a great trail friendly radio, and we would like to see what kinds of packages are created by the remarkably creative Spartan Sprinters. We are asking you to package a Skinny division radio so that it could withstand the rigors of outdoor life.
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