[CQ-Contest] How Many QSOs by Winners of the Early Sweepstakes?

[donovanf at starpower.net]

Hi John, 


Your question about winners of the early Sweepstakes contests 
is readily answered by browsing Sweepstakes results in ARRL's 
on-line QST archive. 


The results of the first Sweepstakes -- a two week long event -- 
was published in a fascinating May 1930 QST results article. 
Out of ninety (!) reported scores, W1ADW was the winner with 
153 QSOs in 43 sections. One point was credited for each complete 
message (a full ARRL message header and at least ten words of text) 
successfully sent and one point for each complete message 
successfully received (the origin of our two points per QSO scoring). 
Many of the QSOs were with non-contest participants i magine 
walking each of the them through a successful two way 
complete ARRL message exchange on CW! 


Sweepstakes was reduced a two weekend contest from 1937 
through 1963, spanning 40 hours of operation over a 66 hour 
contest period ending a 3 a.m. (!) EST on two consecutive 
Mondays. 


The first and only SS score over 100K points produced in the 1930s 
was 646 CW QSOs and 101,115 points produced during the 
tenth anniversary Sweepstakes by Larry Lekashman W2IOP 
of the legendary 1947-1965 W4KFC-W9IOP CW Sweepstakes 
rivalry. 


http://hamgallery.com/Tribute/W8IOP/w8iop.pdf 


http://hamgallery.com/qsl/country/USA/Virginia/w4kfc.htm 


Phone SS winners weren't far behind, lead by perennial pre-war SS 
winner Reginald Tibbets W6ITH. Reg completed the first Clean 
Sweep by working all sections in 1936.and was the national high 
scorer in five (!) consecutive phone Sweepstakes from 1936-1940. 


http://hamgallery.com/Tribute/W6ITH/w6ith.pdf 


73 
Frank 
W3LPL 

----- Original Message -----

From: john at kk9a.com 
To: cq-contest at contesting.com 
Sent: Thursday, November 9, 2017 12:53:00 PM 
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] So Sunday Sucked? 

How many QSOs did the winners have back in the early years of SS? 

John KK9A 

To: Reflector <cq-contest at contesting.com> 
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] So Sunday Sucked? 
From: Ward Silver <hwardsil at gmail.com> 
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2017 21:19:14 -0600 
List-post: <mailto:cq-contest at contesting.com> 


No. Next question? :-) 

Remember that when Sweeps got started (1930) almost all hams were east of 
the Mississippi. And there was no televised anything. That's probably the 
answer - maybe some of the folks who were around HQ in the 50s could fine 
tune it for us. I have inquired of She Who Knows Such Things and will 
report my findings. 


73, Ward N0AX 

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