[NLRS] Is there an award for fewest number of contacts?

[Bill Ockert]

Please bear with me on this story...

When my oldest daughter was in the fifth grade she decided to enter the 
local punt, pass and kick contest
held every year at the school.  As her father it fell on me to take her, to 
egg her on and to be duly impressed
with the efforts.   And to explain what a punt, a pass, a kick and for that 
fact a football was.   When her turn
came to pass, she managed about 5 yards, the kick was about the same and the 
punt actually went a  few yards
backwards.  It is a small school so she was the only female entrant for the 
fifth grade and when the trophy
presentation time came she was awarded first place in her category.  All the 
way home she held this little trophy
in awe and announcing repeatedly "I can't believe I won first place!".  I 
managed to (mostly) keep a straight face.

If you lived in a small section like ND, the -1 might have been good enough 
to take home the SOLP certificate on
many years.

"I can't believe I won first place..."

73 de Bill ND0B


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dr. Gerald N. Johnson" <geraldj at weather.net>
To: <nlrs at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, June 11, 2012 12:51 PM
Subject: Re: [NLRS] Is there an award for fewest number of contacts?


>
>
> No award. I was looking at the UHF contest summaries at arrl.org and saw
> that for 2010 where I made one or two contacts they didn't consider the
> report correct and penallized me for working stations that hadn't sent
> in a log and my final score is -1. That year or last year my whole log
> and the summary and the certification statement all fit on a post card
> so I sent it in that way.
>
> 73, Jerry, K0CQ
>
> On 6/11/2012 12:21 PM, S. Earl Jarosh wrote:
>>
>>
>> So this was a busy weekend for me as had to replace the outer tie rods on 
>> my
>> truck among other things.  Turns out it was a good thing as the right one
>> was only held in by the rubber boot rusted to the joint.
>>
>> I did manage to turn on the 2m/70cm radios on Sunday but my vertical
>> polarized antennas made things a little deaf. Making contact with RYT, 
>> EBG,
>> and JT was like working DX.  Could hear GHZ once in a while but he could 
>> not
>> hear me.  I guess he was pointing the wrong way to deal with the 30db
>> polarization drop.
>>
>> In the end my big score was:
>>
>> Band Qs Points Grids
>> 144 3 3 2
>> 432 1 2 1
>>
>> Total 4 5 3
>>
>> A whopping 15 points!!!!!
>>
>> The good thing is the log and summary fit on one sheet and is in the mail
>> already.  Also logged on QRZ.com.
>>
>> At least I got on......
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>>
>> S. Earl Jarosh, N0HZ
>> V.P. of Information Technology
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>>
>>
>>
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