[CQ-Contest] ARRL SS CW HMO records 1996-2022

[jimk8mr at aol.com]

 I'm not sure when Rusty may have come up with the HMO idea, but I've been doing it for quite a while.
>From the 1995 CW SS, the oldest with results on the ARRL web site:


| 12  | SOHP  | K8MR | OH | 1995 | 61,600 | 440 | 70 |   |  |  |    |    |    |    |    |    |
| 13  | SOHP  | AC8E | OH | 1995 | 58,164 | 393 | 74 |   | K8MR |  |    |    |    |    |    |    |
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| 16  | SOHP  | N8ATR | OH | 1995 | 46,784 | 344 | 68 |   | K8MR |  |    |    |    |    |    |    |
| 17  | SOHP  | W9OCF | OH | 1995 | 40,334 | 301 | 67 |   | K8MR


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I don't have it at my fingertips, but I recall writing an article in the NCJ back in that era.

It's a lot of fun. The rate goes *UP* as the contest goes on!

73  -  Jim   K8MR


    On Friday, September 29, 2023 at 09:23:26 PM EDT, Jim Brown <k9yc at audiosystemsgroup.com> wrote:  
 
 On 9/29/2023 7:02 AM, Tim Shoppa wrote:
> An HMO in Sweepstakes, starts the contest over
> from scratch at a new station using a new callsign to get more action over
> the entire contest period. The most aggressive HMO entries use 3 or 4
> different stations and callsigns during the contest period.

It's my understanding that Rusty, W6OAT, was the inventor of the 
strategy, long before I joined NCCC in 2006. Note that the rules also 
require a different transmitter for each callsign.

I've done a lot more HMOs than those listed here, exchanging calls and 
stations with N3ZZ, W6DRX, and N6RZ (SK), and also used N6IJ 2-3 times 
as my second station, but I've never done more that two in any given 
weekend. I've most often started at my own station, moved to the second 
station early on Sunday morning. About a third of the time I was able to 
sweep from both.

73, Jim K9YC