Minnesota Wireless Association
Club Competition Update
Wednesday, 21 December 2011 10:52

The RTTY Round-Up is behind us and we've only got three events left in our contest season. We can already see the finish line but we've still got a lot of competing to do!

Here are the results:

ARRL RTTY ROUND-UP


Team Hennepin pulled out a win in this event! Overall, we increased our club score by almost 12%. Will it be enough to retain the gavel?! We'll find out in a few months. To make sure we're competitive, please get your logs turned in.

Team Hennepin - 871,888 points (Up 29.10% over last year!!).  21 members active (50% of the team) - Average score 41,518 pts.
Team South - 684,104 points (Up 7.10% over last year!!).  16 members active (32% of the team) - Average score 42,757 pts.
Team North - 874,575 points (Up 1.33% over last year!!).  22 members active (37% of the team) - Average score 39,753 pts.
OVERALL MWA - 2,430,567 points (Up 11.64% over last year!!)


YEAR TO DATE RESULTS


With eight events under our belt, Team South continues to lead by a wide margin. The margin tightened a bit after the RTTY Round-Up, but Team South is still the team to beat. Can Team South be taken down? Yes. When you look at the entire year, not just the events-to-date, Team South leads Team Hennepin by only nine percentage points and Team North isn't far behind. Every team still has a chance to win the pizza!! Here are the overall results:

Team South - 51,108,874 points (Up 195.38% over last year!!)
Team North - 68,239,069 points (Up 107.37% over last year!!)
Team Hennepin - 59,603,289 points (Up 91.67% over last year!!)
OVERALL MWA - 178,951,232 points (Up 120.09% over last year!!)

Next up is the Minnesota QSO Party.  Will we have good weather and lots of mobiles out driving our roads? Will we have a blizzard and lots of home stations? Get your station tuned up and ready!!

Congrats to everyone on a great RTTY Round-Up and good luck in the Minnesota QSO Party!

73  Rich NØHJZ

 
RTTY Roundup 2011 Gavel
Monday, 19 December 2011 21:19

2011 RU Gavel

Last year MWA won the ARRL RTTY Roundup team competition gavel in the Unlimited Club Competition. The gavel arrived Saturday and is pictured here and also on the Facebook page.

According to the results article, MWA is the second club to ever score over 2 million points in the RTTY Roundup. The 2012 RTTY Roundup is less than 3 weeks away. Let see if we can repeat again this year.

So over the holiday let's get our RTTY stations working and do some test runs like last year.

Congratulations to everyone for their fine contribution and good luck on this year's event.

73,
Bill
ACØW