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Spring Meeting Announcement

: Last Updated on Monday, 18 March 2019 02:40

MWA Spring Meeting

On Saturday April 6th, 2019 the MWA holds its Spring meeting. The Spring meeting will be held during the day on a Saturday and we hope many members will be able to attend. The Fall meeting will continue to be held on a Tuesday evening in September.

Shoreview Public Library Community Room
4560 North Victoria St
Shoreview, MN

Saturday, April 6th, 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
in library Community Room

Doors open at 10:00AM

Coffee, water, & rolls will be available

AGENDA:

Short Business Meeting
Stations – Discussion of what worked, what didn’t, what needs fixing. Can MWA members assist?
How to use HFTA (High Frequency Terrain Analyzer) available with the ARRL Handbook – WØZQ
MWA Activity – Discussion how / can we get individuals to commit to more time or minimum scores

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Club Competition Update

: Last Updated on Sunday, 10 March 2019 15:32

As we all saw, conditions were not great last weekend for the ARRL DX Phone Contest. I'm hoping that we're at the bottom of the cycle and conditions can only get better.

Team Hennepin took a late point in the pizza competition! Here are the results:

Team Hennepin - 1,552,526 points (Down 26.64%)
Team South - 1.041,477 points (Down 57.51%)
Team North - 633,225 points (Down 75.62%)
ALL MWA - 3,227,228 points (Down 54.96%)

For the entire year, all MWA scores were up 9.24%. Congrats to Team North on the Team Championship! A great year and great effort!

Now we need to make plans to improve our stations for better scores next year! Write down your notes about what worked (and what didn't) and start making plans for the 2019-2020 season!

73,

Rich NØHJZ

MWA Friend Files

: Last Updated on Wednesday, 04 October 2017 19:02

The various friend files for the different contest software have been updated based on current MWA membership. There are two versions for each program, one has MWA flag in the file so when it comes up on the screen you see MWA along with name, etc. Some people like this and others don’t.

The zip file name with MWA.zip at the very end has the MWA flag in the file.

Each zip file also has instructions on how to install with the particular software.

MWA Merchandise

: Last Updated on Friday, 28 September 2018 15:52

MWA merchandise is available from the following vendors:

Name Badge from Tag-Me Engraving

Name Badge from The Sign Man of Baton Rouge

Mug from The Sign Man of Baton Rouge

Shirts, jackets, hats, etc. with MWA logo from HamThreads

How To Win The Pizza - A New Way!

: Last Updated on Thursday, 08 October 2015 17:16

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. This year the extra point will be awarded to the team that improves their scoring increase (year over year) for the combined Sweepstakes events. 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