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[CQ-Contest] ARRL 10-Meter Contest reflections

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Subject: [CQ-Contest] ARRL 10-Meter Contest reflections
From: Andrew Goss via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Reply-to: Andrew Goss <amgoss05@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2023 13:00:53 +0000 (UTC)
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Hi contesting friends,
The 2023 iteration of the 10-Meter contest is behind us. Lots of QSOs were 
made. Perhaps not as many as we had hoped and expected! But there are some 
impressive scores being reported already. 
I'm doing the write up of the full results of the 10-Meter contest, which will 
appear on the ARRL contest website when the results are posted in mid-2024. I 
begin work on that in February after log checking is completed by the ARRL.
One thing that helps me tremendously in properly documenting the contest is by 
having access to first-hand reports from the field. That is, from the 
participants. That is especially important in an international contest, where 
my own limited knowledge is based upon my weekend from my station in Georgia 
(and just on the CW band). To that end, I'm writing this email asking you to 
send in a short report of your experiences.
Many of you are already writing up comments. Thank you. If you do not usually 
submit soapbox comments, please consider doing so this time.
If you do not feel comfortable writing in English, please don't hesitate to 
write in whatever language is best for you. I can run those through Google 
translate. (If the various forms don't accept your preferred script, send me 
the report, with a short English header so I know what it is, in an email).
All comments are welcome, but, I'm especially interested in reports from: 
top-line finishers, first-time participants, and/or participants from outside 
North America and North-Central Europe. Since a major focus of the results 
article is about the winners, it would be great to have some comments from 
those who came out on top.
There are five ways to do so, here listed in order of preference (for my 
purposes). You only need to do one of them. :)

1. Enter your soapbox comments directly into the appropriate line in the 
Cabrillo log before you submit.2. After you have submitted your log to the 
ARRL, you will receive a confirmation email. In that email there is a link to 
add additional soapbox comments, linked to your entry. If you do this in the 
next few weeks, those comments will get to me in time for use in the write-up. 
This is also the way to submit photos (see below).3. Write comments in 3830. 
Many of you have already submitted your scores there, and if you have already 
written a report, no need to repeat it in one of the other ways, as those are 
public. 4. Use my dedicated Google form, which has a few prompts to help guide 
your comments. These comments will only be read by me. No need to have a Google 
account. https://forms.gle/7mWdt4nHBL7PsUKr65. Send me an email with your 
report: amgoss05@yahoo.com

Finally, if you have photos from this weekend, you can submit them via the 
interface that comes in ARRL's log submission confirmation email. It's always 
great to have photos! Include caption information (including who took the photo 
and who is in it, if appropriate).
Thank you! Andy AA5JF, amgoss05@yahoo.com

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