Yes, Jim, this year's ARRL HQ stations moved things up a bit but look at
some of the Europeans and their geographic diversification. Following their
example, why shouldn't we have stations spread out all over the country,
e.g. K1EA, N2RM, W3LPL, W4MYA, etc. In fact, given the geographic range,
why not have multiple statins on the same band, e.g. a W6 on 80 at the same
time as a W2. OK, so you can't have multiple statios on the same band. How
about a half hour from the East, then a half hour from midwest, then a half
hour from west coast and keep repeating the process. Tht would allow us to
use 36 different stations (6 bands X 2 modes x 3 stations per mode).
Imagine merging those logs.
73,
Dennis K2SX
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim White, K4OJ" <k4oj@tampabay.rr.com>
To: <3830@contesting.com>; <CQ-Contest@contesting.com>; <ctdxcc@kkn.net>;
"Richard L. King" <k5na@texas.net>
Sent: Friday, July 19, 2002 11:22 AM
Subject: Re: [3830] W1AW/5 ARRL HQ Score
> Congratulations on a great job representing the USA, Rich.
>
> The Florida Contest Group had a blast two years ago as W1AW/4- you have
> taken it to the next level for team USA by interconnecting multiple
sites -
> hats off to you and W5XD - great achievement - cannot imagine all the
> screens in sync at the end of the contest from 6 different sites - WOW!
> Talk about knowing who to pass and where to pass them!!!!!
>
> ...this was not do-able two years ago but now is history - very very
cool -
> this is the current level - what will be next? The HQ Radiosport station
> offers an opportunity to do this kind of thing (multiple sites) that no
> other contest can - and as contesters we all love using technology to
stuff
> our envelopes to the point of breaking, hi! I know that the logistics of
> two years ago were tough - sure would have been nice to gab to "anyone
> anywhere" on the network!
>
> Go Team USA!
>
> 73,
>
> Jim, K4OJ
>
> & THE Florida Contest Group
>
> FCG #1 WRTC02 - N5TJ + K1TO
> FCG #4 WRTC02 - N6MJ + N2NL
>
>
> ...from Sunny Florida where we are awaiting the return from WRTC in Europe
> of our President, Dan, K1TO (co- #1) and VP Jeff, WC4E (a referee)
>
>
> Should the opportunity to operate one of these affairs ever become
available
> again I would jump at the chance - it was as they say "a hoot" - being a
> unique multiplier by just jumping in your car to go to the local MM
> station....neat.
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Richard L. King <k5na@texas.net>
> To: <3830@contesting.com>; <CQ-Contest@contesting.com>; <ctdxcc@kkn.net>
> Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 10:42 PM
> Subject: [3830] W1AW/5 ARRL HQ Score
>
>
> > 2002 IARU Contest
> >
> > W1AW/5 ARRL Headquarters Station
> >
> > Location - Central Texas (Austin, Texas area)
> >
> > CW Phone
> > Total
> > Band QSOs Points QSOs Points QSOs
> > Points Mults
> >
> > 160 177 375 156 296 333
> > 671 11
> > 80 329 771 444 1048 773
> > 1819 27
> > 40 824 2545 760 1778 1584
> > 4323 55
> > 20 1594 5966 2319 7522 3913
> > 13488 87
> > 15 1274 4766 1585 5339 2859
> > 10105 92
> > 10 402 1098 467 1277 869
> > 2375 39
> >
> > Total 4600 15521 5731 17260 10331
> > 32781 311
> >
> > Claimed Score: 32,781 x 311 = 10,194,891
> >
> > This past year has been a busy one here in Central Texas while we
prepared
> > for W1AW/5. Though we were given the W1AW/5 assignment over 3 years ago,
> > the planning got started in seriousness a year ago immediately after the
> > 2001 IARU.
> >
> > Six of the premier Central Texas stations agreed to participate - K5NA,
> > K5TR, N5CQ, N5TW, NX5M, and W5KFT. Each of these stations could have
been
> a
> > powerhouse on any of the bands or modes but the assignments were:
> >
> > K5NA - 80M CW, 40M CW, & 15M SSB.
> > K5TR - 80M SSB & 20M SSB
> > N5CQ - 10M CW
> > N5TW - 160M CW & 20M CW.
> > NX5M - 160M SSB & 10M SSB.
> > W5KFT - 40M SSB & 15M SSB
> >
> > W5XD wrote a special version of WriteLog for use by the headquarters
> > stations. Basically the new version allowed us to connect to a central
> > Internet server that fed QSOs back to all the W1AW/5 sites in real-time.
> > Each site could always tell what QSOs and mults each of the other
> band/mode
> > sites needed. The software also fed the frequencies of the radios back
to
> > everyone to allow each station to move QSOs to other bands easily.
> >
> > We had a total of about 15 computers set up at all the sites and each
> ended
> > up with the same QSO and multiplier numbers at the end of the contest.
The
> > software was really awesome.
> >
> > The 24 hours of the IARU were noisy because Central Texas was being hit
> > with wave after wave of thunderstorms. This condition caused high QRM on
> > all the bands and especially affected the low bands. The thunderstorms
had
> > been occurring for several days before the contest and there was a lot
of
> > flooding in the area. But no W1AW/5 sites were affected by flooding. The
> > rain static and thunderstorms were another matter.
> >
> > The thunderstorms forced the N5TW, NX5M, & W5KFT sites to shut down at
> > different times during the contest as thunder cells passed by. Since the
> > logging system was real-time and current at all the sites, it was
possible
> > for other sites to start working the vacated band/modes almost
immediately
> > after the affected stations were shut down. A lot of cell phone calls
were
> > made to coordinate this. Later the band/modes were switched back to the
> > original stations.
> >
> > Our goal was to beat the old W1AW/p record set by W1AW/4 in 2000.
However,
> > 10 meters just didn't have much in the way of good conditions here and
we
> > fell a little short. With sun spots going down, the W1AW/4 record may
> stand
> > for a few years. Our secondary goal was to beat NU1AW and the other
> > headquarters stations. But I haven't heard any other official HQ scores
> yet.
> >
> > All the stations owners and operators had a great time doing this. It
was
> > great fun.
> >
> > Thanks to the K1ZZ and the ARRL for allowing us to do W1AW/5 in this
> > contest. Also thanks to W5XD for his work developing his terrific
software
> > to support our effort and to AB5K for the special telnet node used
> > exclusively by all the W1AW/5 stations.
> >
> > There will be more detailed information and breakdowns of the W1AW/5
> effort
> > available on the net very soon.
> >
> > 73, Richard - K5NA
> >
> > k5na@texas.net
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > 3830 mailing list
> > 3830@contesting.com
> > http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/3830
>
> _______________________________________________
> 3830 mailing list
> 3830@contesting.com
> http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/3830
|