Category: Scores

We made it through the most contest-packed portion of our season, and now we can sit back, relax and enjoy the festive times! I picture Al, K0AD, in his Sweepstakes red velvet outfit, enjoying a cup of eggnog by the fire! Enjoy the time off after four large contests in five weeks! What a stretch!

Last weekend was the ARRL 10 Meter Contest and conditions were incredible! The conditions were met head-on by 88 MWA’ers! If everyone gets their log in, we’ll have 84 logs to represent MWA! Well done everyone! Not a club record turnout but a great representation of our high activity levels!

Speaking of records……….it appears that we may have a new Club Record Score for the 10 Meter Contest! Our reported score is 21,328,104 points! This score is 51.18% higher than last year and shatters the old club record of 19.1 million points. Let’s pray for log accuracy so our final score will maintain a new record! Congrats to all who got on the air. It’s a team effort to beat the previous record……a true team effort!!

Team 8 won the 10 Meter Contest team competition! This is the sixth team to win a contest this season. Well done! Here are the results:

• Team 8 – 3,466,080 Points – 10 pts
• Team 9 – 3,177,768 Points – 9 pts
• Team 5 – 2,495,576 Points – 8 pts
• Team 3 – 2,280,600 Points – 7 pts
• Team 1 – 2,114,588 Points – 6 pts
• Team 4 – 1,932,088 Points – 5 pts
• Team 6 – 1,884,124 Points – 4 pts
• Team 7 – 1,583,816 Points – 3 pts
• Team 2 – 1,417,102 Points – 2 pts
• Team 10 – 1,003,042 Points – 1 pt

The win (and 10 points) for Team 8 moved them all the way from 8th place to 3rd place in the standings. Everyone is still bunched up and any team can end up in the top three medaling spots! Here are the standings after this week:

• Team 9 – 64 pts
• Team 1 – 56 pts
• Team 8 – 48 pts
• Team 5 – 47 pts
• Team 6 – 45 pts
• Team 7 – 45 pts
• Team 4 – 43 pts
• Team 2 – 41 pts
• Team 3 – 26 pts
• Team 10 – 25 pts
• Team 3 – 19 Points

Enjoy the restful holiday season! Our next contest is the ARRL RTTY Round-Up during the first weekend of January. Go hang the stocking with care and pray that St. Nick will deliver a new amplifier or antenna.

73,

Rich NØHJZ

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