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

[Tom Osborne]

What used to be cool about the results in the 50's was that they had a list
of what the winning station in each section was using for equipment.Lots of
"pair of 807's at 100 watts and a long wire antenna" back then :-)  Was
really fun to look through the list.  73
Tom W7WHY



On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 9:47 AM, <donovanf at starpower.net> wrote:

> 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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