[SECC] WH6YH Claimed Score NA CW Sprint

[Bill N4iQ]

Hey Mike ......  I love your dialog!!!!  You have a gift with words.  I want you to know that NA CW Sprint separates the men from the boys.  And a lot of us Boys feel just like you!!!!  You express our (my) feelings eloquently!!  Thinking on the positive side - we (I) can only get better..... so I am looking forward to the next one and a chance to mingle with some of the best CW ops in the world.  Maybe with some effort and luck we (I) will eventually be in the same league.

Sent from N4iQ Bill Chartier's iPhone 6

> On Sep 11, 2016, at 3:05 PM, Michael Zolno <luv.myipad3 at me.com> wrote:
> 
> Greetings All,
> 
> I have  been busy trying to accomplish many chores unfinished since my implant died early June. Thankfully for everyone else, I did not think I would play in NA CW Sprint, so everyone will thank me for mot signing up for a team!! 
> 
> Full disclosure....Boy I stink at this! My poor abilities using N1MM are completely apparent. Off to join the N1MM yahoo group and print the hefty N1MM manual. Will look at create a contest computer with nothing on it except N1MM and other Ham programs MMTTY, etc. Simply loved the high speed CW! If 36wpm is not high speed to everyone else, no worries, maybe I'll get to 40wpm by the end of the year, else I will keep working at it.
> 
> Call: WH6YH
> Class: Single Op LP
> QTH: GA
> 
> Operating Time (hrs): 2hrs
> 
> Summary:   Compare Scores
> Band    QSOs    Op Time
> 80:    5    10 min
> 40:    34    60 min
> 20:    24    40 min
> Total:    63    Mults    25    Total Score    1,575
> 
> Club: South East Contest Club
> 
> I got a late start and had the usual distractions that took me away from the
> contest. My sincere apologies to the professionals out there - you truly make
> this look easy. If one of you would take pity and relate to me how to keep
> "focus" on the call box of N1MM, I would forever be in your debt.
> This was the single most cause of stress and THE discriminator between making
> an easy QSO and having the other STN repeat their call any number of
> times...well that and my fat fingers and inability to type outside hunt and
> peck. I start typing the call, only to find the N1MM call box is not active,
> the op sends their call again as I am already scrambling to find out how to
> activate the call box. At one point I almost launched my Begali, but the
> patient Op whom repeated his call several times pulled me back to reality. Yes
> I heard you, and no, I was not ignoring you; in IT speak it is known as PEBKAC,
> in the contesting world it is known as a LID. Had there been a hidden camera in
> the shack, there is no doubt the video would provide hours of enjoyment and
> raucous laughter if played on a loop at a contest banquet; watching me fumble
> around feverishly trying to find out what took focus from N1MM, find my mouse
> pointer, close whatever program windows opened since it thought I really typed
> a hot-key and is now active, all while trying to get focus back to N1MM to type
> the op would almost be comical had it not caused me so much frustration. Lost
> many QSO that way as many simply moved on and rightly so - this is a contest
> after all. A few isolated cases where everything worked flawlessly and made the
> QSO in textbook style, sadly those were the exception and not the rule. Finally,
> considering the aforementioned, this ought to be ILLEGAL. I had so much fun it
> was a shame it ended so soon. Doubling the time would make it 4x or 8x the the
> fun, especially at speeds around 35-36wpm. I still had the usual issues with my
> call WS6YS, W5BYH, W56, etc. but have applied for a vanity.  73 es Thank
> You for the QSO!
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