Unfortunately, the tropo that I enjoyed earlier in the day at my home station had moved too far south to help at my portable location during the Sprint. Nonetheless, I had fun and did surprisingly well for all the challenges. Just like the 222 Sprint the week before, I worked Maine station K1DY FN54 to the northeast (315 mi / 506 km) for a best DX, and W8ZN FM09 to the southwest (296 mi / 477 km). My roving sidekick Tom KC2SFU got on the air and provided the only contact with my home grid. He used CW to make the contact on a vertically polarized 2m Yagi. VE3CRU/R provided my only contacts with FN04 and FN03, and Long Island station N2GHR FN30 was my farthest contact in the other direction. After working 4 stations in the 10:00 hour, the winds had picked up to the point where they were battering the antenna system pretty badly on the exposed hilltop--the cold front was pushing into the area as forecast. So that, combined with the threat of rain, caused me to tear down early.
BAND QSOs UNIQUE GRIDS --------------------------- 432 22 15 --- Claimed score = 330 ---
MD TIME CALLSIGN GRID OTHER -------------------------------- PH 2315 N2GHR FN30 5x1 PH 2316 K1TEO FN31 5x5 PH 2319 W8ZN FM09 5x3 CW 2325 K3TUF FN10 5x2 CW 2351 K1DY FN54 CW 2357 W1ZC FN42 CW 0000 K1PXE FN31 CW 0001 WZ1V FN31 PH 0018 KC2SFU FN22 PH 0019 VE3YCU FN02 PH 0021 VE3CRU/R FN04 PH 0025 K3MD FN10 PH 0056 VE3CRU/R FN03 PH 0059 K1TR FN42 PH 0125 WB2RVX FM29 PH 0133 N1DPM FN32 CW 0150 K1RZ FM19 CW 0200 WW2Y FN20 CW 0201 W2KV FN20 PH 0205 W2SJ FM29 PH 0206 K2EZ/R FN31