[SCCC] NI6W (W4EF) CW Sprint Score

[Michael Tope]

                  SPRINTCW Summary Sheet

        Start Date : 2022-09-11

     CallSign Used : NI6W
       Operator(s) : W4EF

Operator Category : SINGLE-OP

              Band : ALL
             Power : HIGH
              Mode : CW


      ARRL Section : LAX
         Club/Team : Southern California Contest Club
          Software : N1MM Logger+ 1.0.9651.0

         Band     QSOs     Pts  Sec  Pt/Q
          3.5      70      70    1   1.0
            7     103     103    8   1.0
           14      97      97   39   1.0
        Total     270     270   48   1.0


             Score : 12,960

Wow, that was humbling. The station worked perfectly, conditions seemed 
really good, operator, uh.., not so much. Especially in the first hour, 
it felt like I was in a mental fog. I was definitely not in the "zone". 
It was more like the "anti-zone" where you have to think hard about 
things that should flow naturally. The up-side was that I was able to 
honor Kurt K7NV (SK) by using my club callsign, NI6W, which was a 
callsign formerly held by Kurt. I know from following him on Facebook 
that Kurt was a big proponent of "doing what needed to be done". For him 
I think that often meant long hours toiling in the workshop to get a 
prop-pitch order out the door. I'd like to think that he would have 
approved of the fact that in this case I kept my butt in the chair and 
did what needed to be done for the sake of my SCCC teammates. Somewhere 
I have a picture of Kurt belted to the top of a Rohn 45 tower (I believe 
it was at KH6YY). Kurt had a some sort of arc welder strapped to the 
side of the tower along with tarp to shield him from the rain, so he 
could weld despite the adverse conditions. Now that is the epitome of 
"Doing what needs to be done"! RIP K7NV.

See you all next time.

73, Mike W4EF