Club Competition Update

Last Updated on Saturday, 14 January 2017 17:08

The RTTY Round-Up is in the books and we've got three more events to go. The race for the MWA team crown (pizza!) is heating up!

RTTY ROUND-UP

Team South was a bit more active in this contest to grab another point! They squeaked past Team Hennepin and into the top spot! While conditions were good throughout the US, the lack of DX multipliers hurt our overall scores.

• Team South - 344,796 points (Down 28.33% from last year)
• Team Hennepin - 472,243 points (Down 30.05% from last year)
• Team North - 335,593 points (Down 44.83% from last year)
• TOTAL MWA - 1,152,632 points (Down 34.68% from last year)

OVERALL RTTY SCORES

This year we are awarding an extra point to the team with the best combined score in the CQWW DX RTTY & ARRL RTTY Round-Up. This will be a close one and it might come down to log checking! Here are the top two teams battling for the extra point: Team North +.18% Team Hennepin -1.95%

TEAM COMPETITION UPDATE:

• Team North - 4 points (CQWW RTTY, SS CW, CQWW DX CW & Overall RTTY)
• Team South - 3 points (CQWW DX PHONE, ARRL 10 METER & ARRL RTTY RU)
• Team Hennepin - 2 points (SS PHONE & ARRL 160 METER)

Let's start planning for the Minnesota QSO Party! Let's get everyone on the air and really show the world how active we can be!

73, Rich NØHJZ

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A Few Points on Getting More Points

Last Updated on Tuesday, 26 May 2015 18:19

Metal-in-air, butt-in-chair, submit your log.

That mantra goes a long way, but there is much more to learn and do to improve
your contest score. This guide has suggestions everyone can implement on any budget.
Contesting takes practice and patience. Start by making a few improvements here and
there, and over time it will add up to bigger scores for you and the club.

Bill Mitchell, AEØEE, provides some tips on improving your score in this article.

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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

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MWA Friend Files

Last Updated on Monday, 14 November 2016 03:37

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.

N1MM_Friend.zip

TR-Log_Friend.zip

WriteLog_Friend.zip

Win-Test_Friend.zip

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