posted by James at 2:53 PM

Tuesday, April 20, 2004

 

MHO Team:

HAM Radio Contest Results / CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL WHOM PARTICIPATED! Jim Ross

Jim, and guys:

We worked:
45 states (46 including Michigan)
6 Canadian provinces
38 Michigan counties (out of I think 83 possible counties)
6 foreign countries (8 total if you include US and Canada)

117,117 points total.

553 contacts total. 272 contacts were made with Morse code; 281 were made with SSB (single sideband, or "phone" or "voice").

Our point total of 117,117 broke the Oakland County record (set last year) of 64,660 points for a multiple operator station. We don't know yet if someone else exceeded that score in Oakland County this year. It's doubtful, but possible. FYI, the highest score of all multiple operator stations last year was 351,054 points. It's difficult to explain the scoring, but it's based on what mode was used, how many frequency bands were used, how many counties, how many states - how many contacts in each one of those categories, then it's multiplied or added depending.

I think we did pretty well considering that we operated in a comfortable manner and with the wire antennas we had. We already have ideas as to how to improve for next year. There are a couple of other events this year that may be worthwhile too, if I can convince these guys to give up their personal callsigns for the sake of the club call.

I don't know when we'll know how everyone else did and when the final results will be published. It could be months. This is run and tabulated totally by volunteers.

If you have any questions, don't be afraid to ask.

Here are some of the rules (non-hams probably wouldn't understand the other rules).

1) Object: For amateurs outside the state of Michigan to make contact with as many Michigan stations as possible. Non-Michigan stations may work only Michigan stations, while Michigan stations may contact anyone.
2) Contest Period: The Michigan QSO Party occurs on the third Saturday in April. For the year 2004, the contest will start on Saturday, April 17, 2004. The contest period runs from 1200 EDST to 2400 EDST (16Z Saturday until 04Z Sunday). All stations may operate the full twelve hours.
(b) Multi Operator - Entries where more than one operator performs the operating and logging functions. Multi-operator entries may have multiple transmitted signals on the air at any one time and are not categorized by power.
6) Scoring:
(a) QSO Points - Each complete non-duplicate SSB contact is worth one point. Each complete non-duplicate CW contact is worth two points. Duplicate contacts are worth zero points.
(b) Multipliers - Multipliers are counted once per mode. Working the same multiplier on both CW and SSB counts as two multipliers. 1. For Michigan stations, multipliers are 49 American states (excluding Michigan), 83 Michigan counties and 14 Canadian provinces (NF, LB, NB, NS, PEI, QC, ON, MB, SK, AB, BC, NWT, YT, NU). DX stations do not have any multiplier credit, but may be worked for QSO points credit only. 2. For all other stations, multipliers are the 83 Michigan counties.
(c) Final Score - For non-mobile stations, multiply total QSO points by the total number of multipliers. For mobile stations, multiply the total QSO points from all counties activated by the total number of unique multipliers worked from all counties activated.
(d) Club Competition - Scores attributed to any Michigan amateur radio club will be credited towards that club. All Michigan clubs with a credited score will be included in an overall ranking of those scores with a plaque awarded to the club with the highest score. It is not necessary for the Michigan club to submit a roster or list of claimed entrants. As sponsoring club, the Mad River Radio Club is excluded from this competition, although its members may attribute their scores for other Michigan clubs to which they belong.


Dave