[SECC] IARU - KB4KBS

[Hal Kennedy]

Scott,

Do not feel the slightest bit put upon for using skimmer.  Use anything
you have to build your skills and get your comfort level up.  Congrats
on a great score - I mean that.  You have an average rate of 15/hour -
which for your first CW contest - and not as easy one by any means - and
running LP -is very good!

Welcome to a great addiction.

73 Hal N4GG


-----Original Message-----
From: secc-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:secc-bounces at contesting.com]
On Behalf Of Scott Straw
Sent: Sunday, July 13, 2008 8:53 PM
To: SECC
Subject: [SECC] IARU - KB4KBS

                   IARU HF World Championship
Call: KB4KBS
Operator(s): KB4KBS
Station: KB4KBS

Class: SO CW LP
QTH: Home
Operating Time (hrs): 4 Hours

Summary:
 Band  CW Qs  Ph Qs  Zones  HQ Mults
-------------------------------------
   40:   60     0      9        8
-------------------------------------
Total:   60     0      9        8  Total Score = 2,346

Club: South East Contest Club

Comments:

This was my first-ever CW-only ham radio contest.  A huge thanks goes to
W3WL
and the gang at the North Fulton Amateur Radio League (NFARL) for their
inspiration during Field Day.

I will confess upfront that I used CW Skimmer.  You can be "a hater" if
you
want to, but without it I would have just turned the rig off and not
even
tried. With an average sending speed that was 25WPM+, and some ops
sounding
like machine gun fire, whats a beginner to do? Stay out of the pool and
only
let "the big boys" have all of the fun? So what if I had my "water
wings" on? 
By the end of the contest I was providing fills with the iambic keyer,
and
picking out partial calls, so for me, it was a great experience. CW
Skimmer
gave me the confidence I needed to wade into a major contest and provide
a few
more contacts to the real players.  Discount my score if you feel you
must, but
you can't discount my enjoyment of the event; and yes, I did enjoy it
enough to
stay up until nearly 1:30AM even though I had a 5:00AM alarm clock
expecting to
see my shining face.  Monday won't be fun... for my co-workers, I'll be
whistling "CQ TEST" all day :)

-Scott, KB4KBS


Posted using 3830 Score Submittal Forms at:
http://www.hornucopia.com/3830score/

Scott Straw, CTS-D, CTS-I, EMT-I
Roswell, GA

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