[SADXA] A Surprising Award

[Jim W]

OK, I will.  You might also want to reach out to Bill, K6WSC, to bring 
in one of his latest awards.  He's probably the highest contest award 
achiever in the club.

Jim

On 3/22/2016 1:52 PM, Richard Solomon wrote:
> 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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