Author: NØHJZ

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Club Competition Update

The 160 Meter Contest was last weekend and it was a huge success. MWA turned out 57 active operators and we improved our club score 80.92%, year-over-year, to 2,771,865 points! An incredible testament to some great efforts and lots of BIC time!

Team 6 won the team competition for the 160 Contest! This is the first “win” for Team 6 and the fifth team that has won a contest! The bottom five teams in the previous standings took the top five spots! With the win this week, Team 6 moved from 6th place to 4th. Great effort Team 6 (and everyone). Here are the standings for the week:

  • Team 6 – 531,800 points – 10 pts
  • Team 3 – 457,193 points – 9 pts
  • Team 10 – 341,209 points – 8 pts
  • Team 4 – 339,428 points – 7 pts
  • Team 8 – 251,700 points – 6 pts
  • Team 9 – 247,822 points – 5 pts
  • Team 1 – 185,250 points – 4 pts
  • Team 7 – 170.618 points – 3 pts
  • Team 2 – 138,621 points – 2 pts
  • Team 5 – 107,034 points – 1 pt

Have you thought about getting on the air and then said “my effort won’t amount to much.” Check out the difference between the 3rd and 4th spots and also the 5th and 6th spots. A few thousand points can make a big difference!

In the overall standings, Team 9 maintained their lead, and added one point over second place Team 1. As stated above, Team 6 really made the move upward by capturing the ten-point win! It is still early enough that any team can win one of the medals! Here are the results through seven events:

  • Team 9 – 55 Points
  • Team 1 – 50 Points
  • Team 7 – 42 Points
  • Team 6 – 41 Points
  • Team 5 – 39 Points
  • Team 2 – 39 Points
  • Team 4 – 38 Points
  • Team 8 – 37 Points
  • Team 10 – 25 Points
  • Team 3 – 19 Points

Good luck this weekend to all the teams!

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