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Club Competition Update

The season is winding down and we’ve only got one more event in our expanded 2025-2026 contest season. Last weekend was our first focused effort in the WPX SSB event. With all our efforts, we managed a club score of 30,021,798 points. This is an increase of 139% over last year!

Our club score was anchored by two great multi-op efforts. K0KYL, ND0C & W0CN ventured south for an incredible effort at J62K. K0IR, NE9U & W0GJ braved the wind and snow while operating the CY0S DXpedition to a CY0 record score!

In the Team Competition, Team 5 won their seventh event of the season. The weekly standings were:

  • Team 5 – 12,710,726 Points – 5 Pts
  • Team 4 – 6,536,909 Points – 4 Pts
  • Team 3 – 5,116,100 Points – 3 Pts
  • Team 2 – 4,298,322 Points – 2 Pts
  • Team 1 – 1,359,741 Points – 1 Pt

With the victory, and barring a large change in the reported scores, Team 5 has wrapped up the Team Competition for the 2025-2026 season! Congrats to Team 5 for great activity all season! Consistent activity by the entire team has led to the win. Here are the point totals, with one event to go:

  • Team 5 – 68 Points
  • Team 4 – 61 Points
  • Team 3 – 51 Points
  • Team 2 – 32 Points
  • Team 1 – 28 Points

We now have a bunch of QSO Parties before our final “official” event, the CQ WPX CW Contest in late May.

Thanks to everyone that got on the air last weekend!

73,

Rich NØHJZ

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One Million Points

A few of you asked me to share how to get to a million points in the contest season. You need to make an effort to be active in all 11 contests in our contest season. I think that, with a minimal station, and some BIC time, everyone in MWA could do this. Here is the formula:

  • CQWW RTTY – 300 QSO’s x 75 mults (average QSO worth 2 pts) = 45,000 points
  • CQWW DX Phone – 400 QSO’s x 200 mults (average QSO worth 2.5 pts) = 200,000 points
  • Sweepstakes CW – 350 QSO’s x 75 mults (QSO’s worth 2 pts) = 52,500 points
  • Sweepstakes Phone – 350 QSO’s x 75 mults (QSO’s worth 2 pts) = 52,500 points
  • CQWW DX CW – 400 QSO’s x 200 mults (average QSO worth 2.5 pts) = 200,000 points
  • ARRL 160 Meter Contest – 250 QSO’s x 50 mults (QSO’s worth 2 pts) = 25,000 points
  • ARRL 10 Meter Contest – 300 QSO’s x 60 mults (average QSO worth 2.5 pts) = 45,000 points
  • ARRL RTTY Round-Up – 400 QSO’s x 50 mults (QSO’s worth 1 pt) = 20,000 points
  • Minnesota QSO Party – 400 QSO’s x 60 mults (QSO’s worth 2 pts) = 48,000 points
  • ARRL DX CW – 350 QSO’s x 150 mults (QSO’s worth 3 pts) = 157,500 points
  • ARRL DX Phone – 350 QSO’s x 150 mults (QSO’s worth 3 pts) = 157,500 points

FULL YEAR TOTAL = 1,003,000 points

You’ll need to work all three modes. You can go with low power or high power. You can run assisted to add to your multiplier count. You just need to get on the air and spend some time making QSO’s! If anyone needs more help getting their station ready for the contest season, let me know.

I hope this helps more stations earn their certificates at next years meeting and enjoy the contest season more!

73, Rich NØHJZ