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Club Competition Update

: Last Updated on Wednesday, 04 October 2017 19:03

We're off and running on the 2017-2018 contest season and Team Hennepin have made a statement!

We're into our 12th year of the three team format within our club. Over the years, the pizza competition has been pretty even. Team North and Team Hennepin have both won the title four times while Team South has been Champion three times.

With the CQWW RTTY Contest, Team Hennepin decided they want to be the first five-time Champion! Team Hennepin turned out in force and kept their butts in the chair longer than the other teams! The results speak for themselves:

Team Hennepin - 3,320,435 points (Up 25.67% over last year!)
Team north - 995,361 points (Down 40.54% from last year)
Team South - 436,994 points (Down 47.47% from last year)

OVERALL MWA - 4,755,790 points (Down 7.72% from last year)

The first point in the pizza competition goes to Team Hennepin. The next point is available in the CQWW DX Phone Contest on October 28-29. Get your antennas in the air and tune up the rigs and software.

The sunspots are down but this promises to be a fun, fun contest 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.

MN QSO Party Results Are Available

: Last Updated on Wednesday, 31 May 2017 02:09

The results for the 2017 MN QSO Party have been posted. Congratulations to the winners and thanks to everyone who participated.

Meeting Report

: Last Updated on Wednesday, 04 October 2017 19:03

The MWA held its annual Fall meeting on September 19th. Approximately 60 members were present.

The MWA Presentation is available in PDF format.

Thanks to John W9LHG for the meeting pictures.

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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