[Elecraft] First QSO!

[Fred Jensen]

Sean, for 99.99% of hams, there really are no "knuckleheads."  Your call 
gives you away, at least to me and I think many, as a new ham and 
there's really nothing you can do that is going give us any heartburn 
whatsoever.  We do have our yahoo's, thankfully they're a very small 
minority, and if you ever hear one, ignore him [guaranteed he'll be 
male], avoid 75m at night. :-)

If you try a contest, and you get the exchange wrong, it won't matter, 
you'll get help.  Just get on the air as much as you can.  If you have 
other outdoor interests ... hiking, backpacking, etc ... email me, 
there's a bunch of connections.  This hobby is bigger than anyone can 
really describe.

73,

Fred K6DGW
- Northern California Contest Club
- CU in the 2014 Cal QSO Party 4-5 Oct 2014
- www.cqp.org

On 3/22/2014 7:00 PM, Sean Wall wrote:
> Hi Phil,
>
> It was on SSB, and yes, I was definitely nervous. In fact, I was mostly
> caught off guard when they replied because I had been calling CQ for a
> while and got no response and I had just scanned through the band when I
> heard W1AW/5 calling CQ. I tried it and - bam! - he replied back. I sent
> back my signal report and, like a knucklehead, asked what they were doing
> in region 5. He just laughed and told me he was working the ARRL centennial
> station in NM. Oops.