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Club Competition Update

Most of the results are posted for the ARRL DX Phone Contest. Conditions were a mixed bag, but when conditions were good, they were really fun! Otherwise, everyone got their fair share of PY’s & LU’s!!

We had some great multi-op efforts from Bill, AC0W, at PJ4G, and Dan, WØCN, operating from J62K!  It was fun to listen to the incredible rates in the pile-ups!  Great job guys!  There were some very good efforts from the Black hole!  Pat, WØBM, piloted his station to a club-high 806,000 points!  Vince, KØSIX, also took his score over the 500k mark!  WIth low power, NØHJZ, KØEA and AAØAW all scored over a quarter million points!  That’s a lot of LU’s and PY’s!!

Our club score was down significantly this year. Mostly due to conditions, but the number of MWA stations was down as well. Our total score of 8,442,160 points was down 47.29% from last year. Ouch!

The team competition was won, for the fifth time, by Team 4!  Their
three-million point score outpaced the other teams!  Team 5 was a close
second.  Here are the team results:

  • Team 4 – 3,053,337 Points – 5 Points
  • Team 5 – 2,454,660 Points – 4 Points
  • Team 1 – 1,108, 299 Points – 3 Points
  • Team 2 – 972,820 Points – 2 Points
  • Team 3 – 853,044 Points – 1 Point

With two events to go in the contest season, Team 5 looks like the potential club winning team.  They now hold a six point lead with two events left.  Team 4 needs to pick up seven points to win.  Here are the point totals:

  • Team 5 – 63 Points
  • Team 4 – 57 Points
  • Team 3 – 48 Points
  • Team 2 – 30 Points
  • Team 1 – 27 Points

Our next official event is the CQ WPX Phone Contest at the end of the month. This weekend is the Wisconsin QSO Party and a chance to work all our fellow MWA’ers who operate from Wisconsin. Good luck to everyone this weekend and in the WPX at the end of the month!

73,

Rich NØHJZ

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Contests For 2025/2026 Season

  • CQWW RTTY (Sep 27-28)
  • California QSO Party (Oct 4-5)
  • CQWW Phone (Oct 25-26)
  • ARRL SS CW (Nov 1-3)
  • ARRL SS Phone (Nov 15-17)
  • CQWW CW (Nov 29-30)
  • ARRL 160 Meter (Dec 5-7)
  • ARRL 10 Meter (Dec 13-14)
  • ARRL RTTY Roundup (Jan 3-4)
  • NAQP CW (Jan 10-11)
  • NAQP SSB (Jan 17-18))
  • Minnesota QSO Party (Feb 7)
  • CQ WPX RTTY (Feb 14-15)
  • ARRL International DX CW (Feb 21-22)
  • ARRL International DX Phone (Mar 7-8)
  • CQ WPX SSB (Mar 28-29)
  • CQ WPX CW (May 30-31)
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MWA Friend Files

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.

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MWA Merchandise

MWA merchandise is available from the following vendors:

Name badge from
Tag-Me Engraving
651-460-6177

MWA logo clothing from
HamThreads
817-602-1834