[CQ-Contest] SSCW Secrets - scheduling!??!?

[Jim Smith]

Hey, it's fun.  What can I say?  At my age better get 'em in while I can.

Unfortunately, we had a stretch of really good wx in Sept so I chose to 
do some work on the house and missed 2 of them.  Was out of town for 
RTTY Sprint.

73, Jim    VE7FO

Scott R. wrote:

>VE7FO writes:
>
>>If there is one * that tells my wife that I might enter it but if she
>>wants to schedule something else, go right ahead - no need to ask me.
>>
>
>>If there are two * that tells my wife that I want to enter this one
>>but it's negotiable.
>>
>
>>*** tells my wife that this is a biggie and there isn't much that's
>>more important to me than being in it.
>>
>
>>You don't want to overdo the *** ones. For the four months Sep to Dec
>>I have only 11 of them.
>>
>
>Jim, 11 "must operate"??!? A quick look at the calendar says among
>Sept, Oct, Nov, Dec for 2003 there are only 17 weekends total!  
>
>Now THAT'S a commitment to contest operating.
>
>I do much the same, for the ones I must operate...my wife and I both
>have calendars in the kitchen that we notate for each other and I write
>CONTEST as needed, which trumps any other possibilities including
>family engagements (I am in a long time multi-ham family - they all
>understand, thank goodness, and I was doing this before we got married,
>so Mary knew what she was getting herself into...) 
>
>Scott W4PA
>
>
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