[3830] NA Sprint CW WM5R LP

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                    NA Sprint CW Contest

Call: WM5R
Operator(s): WM5R
Station: WM5R

Class: Single Op LP
QTH: TX
Operating Time (hrs): 1.25

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Op Time
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   80:             
   40:             
   20:   4     1.25
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Total:   4     Mults = 3  Total Score = 12

Club: 

Team: Not Bad for a 5 #3

Comments:

I'm not exactly a fast code operator, and my copying skills have never really
gotten beyond about 16-18 WPM, but George K5TR was so insistent about getting
me
on for the contest (about the least appropriate contest possible for my
skills)
and joining one of his teams, that I had to get on.  I operated portable,
using
the Icom IC-706MkIIG in my car, with a 20M hamstick, a Super CMOS 4 keyer, and
Bencher paddles, from Colorado Bend State Park in San Saba county.  The
camping
trip was the main goal for the weekend, so I could only spare an hour or so to
get on the radio.  Every QSO I made I made by calling CQ at a speed I could
copy.  As usual for me in CW contests, I got very, very few answers.

My operation almost didn't happen, as the paddles were dropped onto rocks and
the cable came between the paddle base and a rock, cutting clean through the
dit
line.  I didn't really have much in the way of troubleshooting tools with me
except for a pocket knife, but I discovered that if you bent the cable with
the
cut at the inside of a sharp bend, you could get contact, so a twist tie from
the hamburger bun bag saved the day!


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