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Club Competition Update

Last weekend’s competition was the ARRL’s Sweepstakes CW contest. 47 MWA’ers turned out to hit the airwaves. When the dust settled, it appears that 85,000 was the magic number. Four MWA stations (AA0AW, K0MPH, N0BUI & N0UR) all scored 85,000 points! We’re trying to figure out what the magic score will be for SS Phone!

Our club score ended at 2,554,347 points, down about 3% from last year. Here are the top scores from the past weekend:

  • LOW POWER
  • NA0N 163,200
  • AC0W 132,770
  • K0PC 110,888
  • K0TG 110,500
  • KA0PQW 88,954
  • K0EA 62,062
  • K0JJR 60,424
  • K0CN 50,720
  • LP UNLIMITED
  • W0PI 102,340
  • N0UR 85,000
  • AA0AW 85,000
  • K0MPH 85,000
  • K0OB 77,350
  • K0RC 72,590
  • K4IU 60,180
  • KA8HDE 54,740
  • HP UNLIMITED
  • W0PR 130,730
  • K0HB 121,040
  • K0AD 110,160
  • N0BUI 85,000
  • W0UC 55,930
  • W0ELT 52,870

  • MULTI-OP
  • N0AT 163,200
  • KA9VVQ 59,940

Here are the results for each team. Congrats to Team 9 for the victory!

  • Team 9 – 462,438 pts (6 active stations) – 10 pts
  • Team 5 – 323,528 pts (4 active stations) – 9 pts
  • Team 8 – 311,452 pts (6 active stations) – 8 pts
  • Team 6 – 304,133 pts (5 active stations) – 7 pts
  • Team 1 – 258,612 pts (8 active stations) – 6 pts
  • Team 7 – 245,564 pts (5 active stations) – 5 pts
  • Team 4 – 227,520 pts (3 active stations) – 4 pts
  • Team 2 – 172,314 pts (5 active stations) – 3 pts
  • Team 3 – 151,016 pts (2 active stations) – 2 pts
  • Team 10 – 97,770 pts (3 active stations) – 1 pt

Team 9 won a contest for the second time this season. They moved up a spot to #1, replacing Team 1. By taking second place, Team 5 collected nine points and moved up from 6th place to 4th – the biggest move of the week.

Here are the team results after 4 events:

  • Team 9 – 34 points
  • Team 1 – 33 points
  • Team 7 – 28 points
  • Team 5 – 25 points
  • Team 2 – 22 points
  • Team 4 – 22 points
  • Team 6 – 21 points
  • Team 8 – 21 points
  • Team 10 – 9 points
  • Team 3 – 5 points

We now start the busiest part of our contest season. We usually have four contests in four weeks. Thanks to November sharing a weekend with December, we have a week off in the middle! Sweepstakes Phone is this weekend. Let’s all dust off the microphones and run up a great club score!

Good luck to all!

73,

Rich NØHJZ

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How To Win The Pizza-A New Way

We’ve come up with a new way to “win the pizza” for this season! In an attempt to have some fun, increase MWA scores, and level the playing field between contests, the MWA Team Competition has a new method for the 2015/2016 contest season. This was announced at the MWA meeting but I wanted to get the word out to everyone in the area.

Previously we used the percentage gain for the entire year as the determining factor for the winning team. Whoever increased the most over the entire season won the pizza. Simple!

As we analyzed the results, we found that the DX contests really drove the season. Why operate the little contests when you can create a large score in CQWW or ARRL DX? We looked at a way to make ARRL 160 or MNQP mean as much as the CQWW events.

Here is the result:

  • Each of our 11 contests will be separate events. Each contest will be worth one point (11 points total). The team that improves their score percentage the most (year over year) in each event will be awarded one point. Sweepstakes Phone is now worth the same as CQWW DX CW or ARRL RTTY Round-Up! Eleven separate points will be awarded for our eleven contests.
  • Each year we will also give out a bonus point for a specific event or set of contests. With this one bonus point, there are 12 points available throughout the entire contest season.
  • If teams are tied at the end of the season, the tie breaker will be the team that improved their score percentage (year over year) in the Minnesota QSO Party.

This new scoring method will hopefully get more stations active in more events. We’ll see increased activity, more QSO’s for each of us, and larger scores for MWA! I’ll have the first results out soon. Let me know if you have any questions.

73 Rich NØHJZ

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One Million Points

A few of you asked me to share how to get to a million points in the contest season. You need to make an effort to be active in all 11 contests in our contest season. I think that, with a minimal station, and some BIC time, everyone in MWA could do this. Here is the formula:

  • CQWW RTTY – 300 QSO’s x 75 mults (average QSO worth 2 pts) = 45,000 points
  • CQWW DX Phone – 400 QSO’s x 200 mults (average QSO worth 2.5 pts) = 200,000 points
  • Sweepstakes CW – 350 QSO’s x 75 mults (QSO’s worth 2 pts) = 52,500 points
  • Sweepstakes Phone – 350 QSO’s x 75 mults (QSO’s worth 2 pts) = 52,500 points
  • CQWW DX CW – 400 QSO’s x 200 mults (average QSO worth 2.5 pts) = 200,000 points
  • ARRL 160 Meter Contest – 250 QSO’s x 50 mults (QSO’s worth 2 pts) = 25,000 points
  • ARRL 10 Meter Contest – 300 QSO’s x 60 mults (average QSO worth 2.5 pts) = 45,000 points
  • ARRL RTTY Round-Up – 400 QSO’s x 50 mults (QSO’s worth 1 pt) = 20,000 points
  • Minnesota QSO Party – 400 QSO’s x 60 mults (QSO’s worth 2 pts) = 48,000 points
  • ARRL DX CW – 350 QSO’s x 150 mults (QSO’s worth 3 pts) = 157,500 points
  • ARRL DX Phone – 350 QSO’s x 150 mults (QSO’s worth 3 pts) = 157,500 points

FULL YEAR TOTAL = 1,003,000 points

You’ll need to work all three modes. You can go with low power or high power. You can run assisted to add to your multiplier count. You just need to get on the air and spend some time making QSO’s! If anyone needs more help getting their station ready for the contest season, let me know.

I hope this helps more stations earn their certificates at next years meeting and enjoy the contest season more!

73, Rich NØHJZ