[SADXA] A Surprising Award

[Richard Solomon]

Congratulations, please bring it to the
next meeting to show us.

73, Dick, W1KSZ

On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 10:03 PM, Jim W <wysocki1 at mindspring.com> wrote:

> In opening up today's mail I found a certificate from the ARRL. Much to my
> surprise it was an achievement award from last year's International DX
> contest.
>
> I was surprised to get it because when it was over I wasn't at all pleased
> with my performance that weekend.  This was my first serious contest effort
> in over 25 years and all I could see at the time were my tactical operating
> errors.  Despite those mistakes and all of the deductions for call sign
> typos, I won first place in the Arizona section for the "Single Operator
> High Power CW" category.  I'm encouraged to find out that my rusty skills
> were still good enough to snag an award.
>
> This is considerably below K6WSC's national award-winning level, and I'm
> not likely to be any real competition to Bill for quite some time to come.
> But at least the club has another contest award-winning member.  :-)
>
> This year I entered in one of the contest's other CW categories. We'll see
> how I did in due time.
>
> Jim  W9FI
>
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