Wonder of wonders, this message has nothing to do either with contest rules or cut numbers. Please don't tune out, hi! Until recently, I was pretty much of a solitary contester - never had any occasi
-- Original Message -- From: "Pete Smith" <n4zr@contesting.com> To: <cq-contest@contesting.com> Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 2:24 AM Subject: [CQ-Contest] Improving Concentration -- I have two reco
rules or cut numbers. Yes, "Miracles" still happen. Try putting either Post-It Notes or computer generated BOLD font text notes (cut 'em down to size), and put one on your monitor screen, at the top
N4ZR: Watching good ops, they seem to have a really special focus that I find hard to maintain, even for a 4-hour sprint. You may maintain focus much longer with very high winning motivation or some
There are more things that just focus and concentration - I think much of it is learned by operating many many contests until most of the operating actions and techniques become second nature. It has
Something that helps for me (though not enough judging from the number of part-time entries<grin>) is to set very short-term goals. For example, if I have 367 QSOs, my goal is 400. Once I have 400 QS
George is correct here. There was an article in the New York Times just this week that indicates our conscious mind has quite limited control over the subconscious, and that we operate primarily at t
Comfort is a big deal to me, Pete. If I'm not comfortable, I'm cannot focus. 1. I turn off the room lights. I have one of the clamp-on type flex lamps with a 20w bulb in it for 'ambient' lighting so
I agree all around with Dave and George, K5TR. There is a book titled The Ethical Brain, which goes into how important extensive practice is for all expert-level people who deal with physical and men
Some ideas from my experience: - I do like to watch how my effort is doing compared to either a previous effort or a newly created goal. It is important that the comparison be something that can be i
Yes, that is what I was thinking of when I was writing earlier this morning. I have found that the more I have done this and the more I have done high QSO rate hours and two radios that it seems I ha
Thanks for the many inputs received directly so far - too many even to acknowledge directly, but all appreciated. I hope there will be many more contributions, so that I can do a summary that will be
Hey, Pete! I may as well throw in my two cents here. I've made a habit of posting a small note with the letters "DB" on it. DB stands for "Do Better", just a reminder of where I need to improve. I'll
This is the best thread I have seen in a long time on any reflector. The content is top notch... This is what the Internet is really all about. Learning, helping, getting better thru sharing. 73 - Pa
i live my life in fantasy (anyone who operates major contests using an NC183 receiver lives in fantasy). i dream about working such and such contest, put together a station (usually) unique to the pa
I remember something the late Bill Fisher, W4AN told me about what he did. He would mentally break the contest into one hour chunks, and treated each one like its own contest. It was for this reason
I read a transcript of an interview with Eric Clapton where the interviewer asked him what he thought about when he began and performed a solo, and he said something like "whatever comes into my hea
A couple of more items for Pete's Master List. Dale, KG5U, mentioned: <snip> IMHO, "comfort" is mega-Important. I start to gag if I'm in a warm to hot stuffy room (one reasons I had difficulty concen
It doesn't answer your question directly, Pete, but I put up a eye level QSL's from SV5/N2OO, JA2ADY, JF1SEK as inspiration. 73, Dale, kg5u _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest
... ... I have experienced going well over the set targets twice. I did so the level I had reached in the excellent band conditions, I added as target the relative improvement need to my then-score.