Great commentary!
Nice to hear someone who is NOT CARPING about their pet peeve, or
complaining just because conditions were marginal for a part or all of
the period, or that some (most?) people didn't devote the entire
allotted period.
72/73 de n8xx Hg
QRP >99.44% of the time
On 4/1/2013 12:00 PM, cq-contest-request@contesting.com wrote:
Message: 4
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2013 20:46:55 +0700
From: Charles Harpole<hs0zcw@gmail.com>
To: CQ-Contest Reflector<cq-contest@contesting.com>
Subject: [CQ-Contest] I loved the WPX
This is long, sorry. At 69 with beginning shakey fingers and less stanima, I
nevertheless entered the WPX ssb with determination. I came out breaking 2
million points and with a very satisfying experience. WPX trained my brain...
again!
The HS0 prefix makes me desirable, of course, and I am above just-loud with
even marginal openings, but something geophysical makes me heard much better
than I can hear. Other local hams confirm this gator situation. These factors
give me a pile up with nearly every call. So, my brain gets the duty of
sorting the voices.
By the end of the contest, I had re-learned to discriminate the voices on the
same frequency and was surprised that I actually did not hear the QRN and QRM
that was there and so vexing at the start of the contest. By the end of the
test, I could copy much better, my short term memory had improved and allowed
me to hold calls and numbers whole even prior to typing them into the log, and
I had succeeded in holding my impatience with frustrating operators. Also, I
had modulated my sleep and wake pattern to end feeling refreshed and sorry WPX
was over so soon. (I am retired.)
My point is that this contesting had significantly sharpened my concentration
skills and mental focus, had slapped my memory around to better function, had
made me manipulate my gear well and multi-task it while planning which band and
which direction to point as condx changed, and had just sharpened me up
overall! I am thinking at how much today's children and youth need this
sharpening, too. Research on mental processing and learning indicates that
what one does in a contest is very good for mental development and problem
solving in an organized way, teaches not to give up on a self-determined goal,
and gives satisfaction at a task well done... and hope that the learning will
stick with one.
Obviously, I really loved this WPX. 73,
-- Charly, HS0ZCW
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