[SADXA] A Surprising Award

[Richard W. Solomon]

OK, Bill, if you are reading this, can you bring some in to brag about ?
The same goes for all members, got an award you are proud of, bring it in 
and show it off !

73, Dick, W1KSZ

-----Original Message-----
From: SADXA [mailto:sadxa-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Jim W
Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2016 2:17 PM
To: Southern AZ DX Association E-Mail Reflector
Subject: Re: [SADXA] A Surprising Award

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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