Sometimes Just Showing Up... (Part 2)

I believe it was Woody Allen who suggested that just showing up to an event is 50% of the goal. 

I have written about this topic many times, and in many ways:

• [X] (1-16) - The Importance of Submitting a Log for every contest
• [X] (5-13) - Sometimes just showing up accomplishes the Goal....
• [X] (8-15) - Is there Value in Documenting Contest Activity?
• [X] (6-19) - IT Ain't Over Until...

Each weekend of the year brings us a bevy of radiosport contests, on different bands and/or many different modes; sometimes (like Field Day and state QSO parties) an event may involve MANY bands and a bevy of modes during that radiosport weekend.  In the beginning I didn't spend much time with radiosport activities, thinking it was too complicated for me to figure out, the exception
being Field Day and the November Sweepstakes.

Beginning in the late 1990's WQ6X began jumping into various contest events just to see what it
was like.  Thinking that my score was hardly worthy of note, out of laziness, I rarely submitted a log, except maybe, for Sweepstakes participation.  As I have documented in the above Blogs, submitting
a log not only assists those orchestrating the contest, a number of times it turned out that WQ6X submitted a high score.  While other stations may have surpassed my score, either they did not submit a log or somehow got DQ'd (disqualified).

In recent years, I participated in over 100 events in a given year.  During many contests, I put in some number of hours with team-NX6T which left me with enough time for WQ6X to make an entry into the same event as some sort of a Single-OP operation.  Some ARRL events resulted in receiving a 1st-place certificate from the NX6T operation along with a 1st-place certificate for WQ6X.  Some years back, NX6T won a plaque for the Southwestern Division, while WQ6X won a plaque for the Pacific Division.

The above makes the assumption that dual operation is allowed in a given contest event. 
As it turns out, not all contest events allow dual-OP'ing.  The Japanese JIDX contest expressly
forbids dual operation submissions.  As it turns out, the JIDX Ssb contest runs the same weekend
as the WAE (Worked All Europe) RTTY contest, giving me something to go for in between stints
at NX6T looking for JA stations.

Bottom-line: if you are going to go to all the trouble of participating in a given radiosport, after the event concludes, spend an extra 20-minutes or so to post your score on the 3830 Scores website and submit the log to the contest host.  In most cases, the majority of contests now sport a website where you can upload your Cabrillo log file and be done with it.  At the very least, they will have an e-mail address you can attach a log file to, accomplishing essentially the same thing.

When was the last time YOU just SHOWED UP?

HoW DiD it all turn out?