North American QSO Party, CW - August
Call: K7KU
Operator(s): K0KR
Station: K7KU
Class: Single Op LP
QTH: Wyoming
Operating Time (hrs):
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 20 10
80: 107 32
40: 202 45
20: 356 48
15: 211 42
10: 15 5
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Total: 911 182 Total Score = 165,438
Club:
Team:
Comments:
Historically, the August running of NAQP CW has been a sleepy, little backwater
of a contest, arriving (as it does) in the summer doldrums of HF activity. The
"hot" running of NAQP, in terms of scores and participation, has been the one in
January.
>From the perspective of the U.S. seventh call area, though, we might well be
witnessing the dawn of a new August-NAQP era. Take a look at the official top
W7 scores, beginning in the year 2000:
YEAR/CALLSIGN/QSOS/MULTIPLIERS/SCORE
2000 K6LL 716 191 136,756
2001 K5RC 694 206 142,964
2002 K6LL 742 193 143,206
2003 K5RC 655 184 120,520
2004 K7RC 745 189 140,805
2005 N6TR 770 185 142,450
2006 K6LL 671 161 108,031
2007 W7RN (N5OT op) 788 183 144,204
2008 K7RL 678 175 118,650
2009 K8IA 833 169 140,777
2010 W7RN (N7MH op) 729 192 139,968
2011 W7RN (N6TV op) 877 201 176,277
On the basis of this history, one sees that from and including 2000 through and
including 2010, the top W7 scores formed a relatively tight pattern, averaging
approximately 134K. Things began to change in 2011, with the breakthrough
score of 176K+ from Tom Taormina's outfit at W7RN. This impressive achievement
represented a whopping 31% increase over the average of the top scores for the
previous 11 years.
But, hold onto your hats! Take a look at the W7 3830 claimed scores from this
past weekend. We might well be witnessing a boom in scores (and in top level
participation) in the August event. Some of this is no doubt attributable to
progress in SO2R technique, logging programs, and equipment. But so much
advancement in a single year? And a year, at that, when 10m underperformed for
almost everyone?
2012 TOP SIX W7 3830 CLAIMED SCORES (reported as of August 7):
W7RN (K7GK op) 940 205 192,700
K7RL 963 199 191,637
K8IA 976 184 179,584
K7KU (K0KR op) 911 182 165,438
N7XU (K4XU op) 841 184 154,744
W7CT 768 179 137,472
I hope I didn't overlook anyone.
Consider, in particular, Dick Frey's excellent score at N7XU. In any year from
2000 through 2010, inclusive, Dick's score would have been No. 1 in W7 by a
comfortable margin. In 2012, though, his claimed score ranks a mere No. 5
among W7's. Notice, too, that W7CT's sixth-place score was no slouch either,
as it bettered the average of the No. 1 scores in W7 for 2000 through 2010,
inclusive. Four W7 scores topping 900 Q's each, when *NO* W7 previously in
this century had reached that threshold in August? Wow! Sleepy backwater?
NOT.
(My feeble excuse list: I had only one radio; it would not put out more than
75W on any band; my 40m beam remains kaput; and important out-of-state visitors
arrived unexpectedly smack in the middle of my hottest run. And what kind of
summer contest is it, exactly, when 160m outperforms 10m?)
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