The bands were very dead for DXCC's so I turned the radio off and decided to just do some web surfing and that soon became same old same old. I then had a brain storm that it has been just way to long since I had a good old fashioned QSO. Most of my time has been hunting for counties that I need for my ARRL Jubilee award. This meant for the past few weeks and maybe a month or so I have been just working the CW key with "599 73 TU" and that's it. I turned the K3 on and it just happen to be on 14.060 and KM4CU was calling CQ. I came back to him and the QRP to QRP conversation began..........so I thought!! Tom's code was great from Florida........my code..... not so much. I was absolutely embarrassed. I kept messing up his call, I could not even get passed "nice to meet you" it was like my mind went BLANK I was not able to figure out what to say and how to translate it to code!!! Tom was very fast to send his 73's to me (it was like I was an ugly date). Once again I just struggled with the ending and once done ( which seemed like for ever) Tom was just gone........it was like a Morse code blind date that just went south very fast.......very embarrassing!!!! Tom if you read this blog I am very sorry for the code train wreak. LESSON LEARNED
6 comments:
You-know-what-happens. Don't sweat the small s***! Trust me, worse things going on. In my own family for example. 73 Dick
Good morning Dick, and very true but it just seem to get under my skin....all better now...:))
Mike - don't sweat it! We all have days like that behind the key. Many are the times where I have apologized for my "dyslexic" fingers! 73 de Larry W2LJ
Hi Mike, this is NOT a problem....I also keep meesing up with callsigns or name of the corrispondent no matter which speed. It's just a moment then everything settles. BTW I am sure to understand the way you felt, I often have the "stage panic" when starting an english ragchew on CW. Keep dit ditting man ;)
Stefano
IZ3NVR - KD2BGM
Good morning Larry, it has a nice ring to it VE3WDM and dyslexic fingers.....:))) It's good to know I am not alone at times.
Good morning Stefano, yes I guess I don't have it to bad after all. I just have to get the CW correct and not have to worry about a language as well.
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