In recent years, out of seeming-nowhere an envelope appears at my P.O. Box or an unexpected e-Mail arrives, delivering another 1st-place certificate from the previous year's state QSO parties.
I have won 1st-place awards submitting logs with less than 10 QSOs. I guess Woody Allen was
right - "sometimes just showing up is over 1/2 of the game".
"take it seriously", I rarely sent in a log. Then I discovered that careless attitude cost me being awarded a lot of high-place finish certificates; all that was needed was taking 5 minutes to post
a score on the 3830 Scores website and e-mail a file attachment of the .Log file for a given event.
The important point to understand in all this is NoT WQ6X that was the BEST Single-OP in these events, only that I submitted the highest scoring log for that category. Often, other participants made WaY more QSOs but either they failed to submit a log or for whatever reason, the log was disqualified or made a Checklog, giving WQ6X a 1st-place for that event.
Next time you participate in a state QSO Party and don't feel like submitting a log, then what is
the point of playing at all? No matter how well you do, your log is important to the contest result committees. Go ahead - submit that log and possibly YOU TOO can receive a 1st-place when
you don't expect it.
Look for WQ6X to play around in DOZENS of State QSO Parties this year.
Then in October, look for WQ6X (or a 1x1 callsign) in the California QSO Party.
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