[CQ-Contest] ARRL 10 Meter Contest Records

[Kenneth E. Harker]

     The records for the ARRL 10 Meter Contest have been updated on the 
ARRLWeb to include results of the 2006 contest.

http://www.arrl.org/contests/results/10-meter-contest-records-wve.html
http://www.arrl.org/contests/results/10-meter-contest-records-dx.html

     Some of the newly set records are mentioned in the Expanded Results 
article for the 2006 contest results:

http://www.arrl.org/members-only/contests/results/2006/10-Meters/

     Some trivia:

* The oldest Division record is K0RF (W0UA, op.) for the Rocky Mountain 
  SO SSB HP category, set in 1981: 3072 QSOs x 146 multipliers for 897,024 
  points.

* There are 16 USA and 13 Canadian section records that remain unclaimed,
  mostly in the Single Operator QRP categories.

* The oldest DX Continental record is KC4AAC (WB6KIL, op.) for the Antarctica
  SO MIX HP category, set in 1975 (366 x 60 = 43920), the last time any 
  station operated the contest from that continent.  The next oldest are 
  all from 1990: 

    - JA1XDA, Asia SO SSB QRP (494 x 67 = 66,196)
    - OT4AAQ (ON4AAQ, op.), Europe SO SSB LP (2301 x 168 = 773,136)
    - VP2EXX, North America SO SSB LP (4306 x 150 = 1,291,800).
    - AH3C, Oceania SO MIX HP (3179 x 244 = 2,188,680)

-- 
Kenneth E. Harker WM5R
kenharker at kenharker.com
http://www.kenharker.com/