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@kk9a.com
To: cq-contest@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@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] So Sunday Sucked?
From: Ward Silver <hwardsil@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2017 21:19:14 -0600
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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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