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: Last Updated on Thursday, 28 November 2019 14:53

Our DXpedition teams have returned safely to the frozen north and our logs are all sitting on the hard drive at CQ! Today we'll all get together with family and friends, the buzz of high speed CW still ringing in our ears.

First, thanks to everyone who ventured south to help us with our multiplier counts! The PJ4, PJ5, PZ and VP5 mults were a lot easier this contest! Also, a big thanks to some of our team mates who got on a CW contest for the first time!! Congrats on jumping into the fun!

The DXpeditions sure helped our MWA club scores! It also helped tighten the race for the pizza! Here are the results:

CQWW DX CW

Team North - 18,729,225 point s(Up 130.74% over last year!). 18 team members were active (33%)
Team Hennepin - 14,888,642 points (Up 76.18% over last year!). 16 team members were active (36%)
Team South - 6,056,196 points (Down 5.85% from last year). 22 team members were active (43%)

OVERALL MWA - 39,674,063 points (Up 72.49% over last year!). 56 club members active (37%)

The pizza race is tightening too!

Team North - 2 Points (CQ RTTY & CQWW CW)
Team Hennepin - 2 Points (CQWW Phone & SS CW)
Team South - 1 Point (SS Phone)

Next weekend is the ARRL 160 Meter Contest. We'll have a special MWA Challenge that everyone will be able to compete for!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Enjoy time with family and friends today and earn that Kitchen Pass for the next couple weekends!

73,

Rich NØHJZ

Annual Meeting Report

: Last Updated on Friday, 27 September 2019 19:42

The 2019 MWA meeting was a big success with over 50 attendees.

Meeting slides are now posted.

Members were treated to a complete breakdown of the contest scores by club statistics master Rich NØHJZ.

Carl K9LA talked about Propagation for the Upcoming Contest Season

Bert WBØN, Al KØAD, Rich NØHJZ, and Ron NØAT talked about their experience with the new digital modes in contests

Thanks to John W9LHG for the meeting pictures.

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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

MWA Friend Files

: Last Updated on Wednesday, 25 September 2019 17:27

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.

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