HI:
NOT GQP, but lots of mobile stuff someone might be interested in seeing.
Expect to be in GQP July 22/23 - GL 73 Norm W3DYA
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2000 MARAC (34TH) COUNTY HUNTERS CW CONTEST RESULTS
CTYS --QSO TYPE-- QSO CTY TOTAL
AWDS CALL ACTV ST FIX DX MOB TOTAL PTS MULT SCORE
MOBILE STATIONS
P W9MSE 74 TOT 818 44 374 1,236 6,648 292 1,941,216
*** W3DYA 47 TX 611 39 357 1,007 6,161 295 1,817,495
P KN4Y 50 TOT 726 105 271 1,123 5,316 292 1,552,272
W1NN 29 TOT 354 64 250 668 4,424 246 1,088,304
C KN4Y 35 SC 539 63 191 793 3,719 240 892,560
C W9MSE 42 MI 488 28 185 701 3,403 191 649,973
C VE2EM 15 NY 140 41 144 325 2,505 195 488,475
C W1NN 9 PA 178 30 136 344 2,368 154 364,672
KM4FO 35 TOT 225 10 123 358 2,120 126 267,120
C KN4Y 15 GA 186 42 81 309 1,611 111 178,821
C W9HB 9 IL 116 13 84 213 1,441 118 170,038
C W9MSE 16 IN 176 0 101 277 1,691 94 158,954
C W1NN 13 NJ 122 21 75 218 1,352 97 131,144
W9MSE 13 IL 128 11 74 213 1,293 83 107,319
KM4FO 14 IN 75 1 66 142 1,070 64 68,480
K2NJ 2 NJ 33 8 42 83 703 70 49,210
K4UK 14 TOT 45 9 45 99 765 57 43,605
C KM4FO 13 KY 93 4 28 125 533 61 32,513
K4UK 9 GA 32 0 35 67 557 50 27,850
C NS7B 5 UT 22 2 27 51 437 37 16,169
W1NN 3 NY 25 4 17 46 300 37 11,100
KM4FO 5 IL 38 5 17 60 318 32 10,176
C K0ZT 4 CO 22 0 17 39 277 29 8,033
C W9MSE 3 WI 26 5 14 45 261 25 6,525
C KM4FO 3 TN 19 0 12 31 199 23 4,577
C W1NN 1 CT 9 2 11 22 184 20 3,680
C W1NN 2 MD 15 5 8 28 160 16 2,560
C K4UK 2 VA 7 6 7 20 142 11 1,562
C W1NN 1 DE 5 2 3 10 60 8 480
K4UK 3 TN 6 3 3 12 66 6 396
Total 284
FIXED STATIONS
P WC5D 1 TX 87 4 230 321 3,557 253 899,921
P WB2ABD 1 NY 74 7 222 303 3,439 252 866,628
C WB6IYS 1 CA 78 5 216 299 3,343 255 852,465
C AB7RW 1 WA 45 3 183 231 2,805 208 583,440
C WA3HAE 1 PA 94 8 132 234 2,114 202 427,028
C W4RKV 1 TN 32 3 153 188 2,342 180 421,560
W2EZ 1 NY 24 6 146 176 2,244 156 350,064
C K5IID 1 WV 78 12 80 170 1,338 149 199,362
C W0IZV 1 CO 18 3 69 90 1,068 85 90,780
C AA9KH 1 IL 59 2 41 102 684 94 64,296
C W8WVU 1 MI 57 5 40 102 682 87 59,334
C KR1B 1 MA 14 0 53 67 809 67 54,203
N1QY 1 MA 46 13 39 98 696 75 52,200
K7IOO 1 WA 16 2 55 73 851 53 45,103
C W0GXQ 1 MN 9 3 46 58 714 57 40,698
K0ZT 1 CO 2 0 46 48 692 49 33,908
P VA3RJ 0 ONT 5 0 45 50 680 49 33,320
C K4ADI 1 SC 23 0 38 61 593 56 33,208
C N3TG 1 VA 19 4 27 50 444 46 20,424
C K0OAL 1 NE 13 6 28 47 463 40 18,520
C K8CW 1 OH 3 39 22 64 528 24 12,672
K6CSL 1 CA 32 2 14 48 252 44 11,088
W7DRA 1 CA 34 0 10 44 184 44 8,096
KD8HB 1 OH 4 0 21 25 319 25 7,975
W4TYU 1 TN 14 0 17 31 269 28 7,532
W8YL 1 MI 2 2 16 20 252 18 4,536
C W3UT 1 MD 15 0 11 26 180 23 4,140
WA2MUA 1 NY 6 3 10 19 171 19 3,249
N6GL 1 CA 4 0 9 13 139 13 1,807
C N0WM 1 MO 4 0 9 13 139 12 1,668
WA3GYW 1 MD 8 2 6 16 108 14 1,512
WB7AIV 1 WA 3 1 6 10 98 9 882
W5NR 1 TX 1 0 5 6 76 6 456
W8PN 1 OH 0 0 2 2 30 2 60
KB9AMG 1 WI 0 0 2 2 30 2 60
Total 33
DX STATIONS
P LY3BA LITH. 118 0 122 240 1,948 204 397,392
C DL3DD GERM. 28 0 66 95 1,018 93 94,674
C JA9CWJ JAPAN 7 0 9 16 142 16 2,272
P = PLAQUE, C = CERTIFICATE,
*** CONTEST MANAGER VOLUNTARILY DECLINES AWARDS
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CONTEST MANAGER COMMENTS:
Since we had a few mobiles gain entry to the all time top ten list this
year and four scores exceeded the one million points mark, it would
appear the mobile effort was a sucess. Likewise, the fixed station
effort produced some very nice scores, although none managed to make it
to the top ten list. And there were many who joined us for the first
time, and it's always a pleasure to welcome them.
I want to thank Alan, K8CW, who received a bunch of logs and forwarded
them promptly.
By the way, I don't need an SASE for results; I'll send results via email
or regular mail using my address file. In addition to mailing results,
I'll also send this to the mail reflectors I can access and try to get
them on the web page (countyhunter.com).
I also appreciated the response to my request for logs, regardless of
volume. The contest was very active and this is only reflected in the
results if logs can be included.
There was only one eyeball meeting reported during the contest (see W8WVU
below), which is always a nice event! I know we feel it interferes with
our contest effort, but we always seem to remember them long after the
contest is history. I'm not suggesting we start an eyeball meeting
during this contest since we're spread out all over the country, but we
shouldn't pass up an opportunity - it's worth the interruption!
Thanks to everyone who helped make this a fun and successful event; it's
still the best contest for mobiles in the world! CU May 5/6/2001!
73, Norm, W3DYA
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2000 MARAC (33RD) COUNTY HUNTERS CW CONTEST RESULTS - SOAPBOX
KM4FO(Dwight): I really had a great time. Things started out bad on
Friday night when I found that my 15M resonator would not resonate and my
rig quit on 40M at abut 1:30Z. I put my old trusty Omni-D in the front
floorboard Saturday and headed out again. Thanks to all the mobiles and
fixed stations for a fun weekend.
K0ZT(Jim): I did not get a lot of time to operate mobile, but it was fun
as usual. However, I did keep trying to repeat everyone's RST back; some
mobile habits are hard to break HI! Was looking for you on Saturday
nite on 7 MHZ but never heard you.
WB7AIV(Bob): Don't have a computer so am sending info on the CH contest.
My pleasure to make a few contacts, had fun! Looking forward to next
year's contest.
K7IOO(Bill): Lots of fun, excellent mobile ops. Family severely limited
(my) operating time.
WA2MUA(John): I was on for less than two hours, so these numbers are
only to add my call to the list of those who participated.
W7DRA/6(Mike): For the past few years I have operated your CH Contest and
have had a lot of fun! I love chasing a mobile across county lines,
especially mobiles in Texas. Although I'm not a mobile operator, I am a
loyal portable operator with my trusty modified HW16/VFO. I was
operating at my sister's house in Marin County CA. I know you have
eliminated the portable classification, but I would like to post a vote
for somehow working a portable category into the rules operating at other
than home county or state. In my hurry to catch the plane, I forgot my
J38! I found a small vice, clamped it to a 2x4 saw horse, hooked a
ground to it, connected the hot key wire to a 3 oz fish weight, and
clanked the weight on the vice as a sort of manual key. Everybody
slooowwweeedd down for me. Thanks again for a good contest.
KB9AMG(Mark): Here is the detailed log info; I only made two QSO's. If
I remember right, condx were not very good, solar flares, etc., wiped out
the band.
N3TG(Red): I always enjoy participating in this contest when my schedule
permits. I was able to put in only a couple of hours, but it was
worthwhile and I added about 17 new counties overall.
W8PN(Hal): Unfortunately, my participation in the contest was minimal; I
hope to plan my emergencies a little better next year. Keep up the good
work with the contest; we sure could use more fixed station
participation. Maybe Joyce (KD8HB) will get the contest bug since she
has no more CH challenges.
K5IID(Tom): Fun, but next year I'm gonna be serious!
K4ADI(Frank): I had not planned to submit a log for so few QSO's, but
here it is!
W3UT(Ray): Thanks for your efforts!
VA3RJ(Dave): Great contest again this year. Missed the first half of it
due to other commitments. Hope to see everyone again next year!
W8WVU(Al): Condx were very poor here doing the contest; however, your /M
from Texas was always near 599. But KN4Y/M in SC and others could not be
heard most of the time I did meet W9MSE/M in person. He was running
Lenawee Co. in an antique mall parking lot and I drove over and met him
about 10 pm about 10 miles from my home QTH.
W5NR(Art): I had only one hour available, but W9MSE/M was going strong -
as usual! Hope to be full time next year!
AA9KH(Jay): Wow! What an excellent event. Really enjoyed my first
participation during this year's evnt. Been working on the 20M CW
netfairly often of late and enjoy it, also. But trying to keep up with
even six or seven mobiles within the range of my ground mounted dummy
load (vertical HI!) was quite interesting and challenging. Did not
manage to spend as much time as I might have liked, but enjoyed it very
much.
W4RKV(Mitch): The CH CW Contest was a blast. I really enjoyed it this
year. Propogation was very poor here Fri night and all day Sat, but Sun
was pretty good. - worked Jeff (W9MSE/M) in IN and IL on 20M, even worked
KM4FO in KY on 20M from my TN QTH. I only worked stations on 20 and 40;
listened on 15 and 80 a few times, but heard nothing there. Mobiles I
worked the most times: W9MSE-40, W1NN-25, KN4Y-24, W3DYA-23.
K6CSL(Bert): I really enjoyed this contest, though the participation did
not seem very dense, and some of my score was from snagging
non-participant stations with general CQ's. Sun was pretty tought after
my XYL and I both got sick with some kind of stomach flue, and I wasn't
feeling too well. Contesting is quite a challenge for me as it is, due
to my being disable with lung problems and being on oxygen 24 hours a
day.
DL3DD(Leo): In spite of any thunderstorms, strong local QRM at evening
and worse condx on Sunday, I'm satisfied with the resuls this year. I
never got a new county in contest last year, but got 7 new ones this
year!
KR1B(Bob): Great fun! Appreciate the boys who had to sacrifice mowing
the lawn or painting the house to give out the mobile counties. I very
much approve of separate CW and SSB contests and would like to see two
MARAC CW Contests per year. I believe that the Roadrunner should give
more coverage to upcoming MARAC CH Contests - I had to go to CQ magazine
to find details.
LY3BA(Gedas): It's a real pitty I could not operate full time this year.
Many new counties, lot of fun! Thanks to all the mobiles for the
outstanding effort. I have worked 22 different stations signing /M. I'm
impatiently looking forward to the next year CH CW Contest.
AB7RW(Phil): A big thank you to the mobiles. It was fun following you
around the counties.
K4UK/M(Stan): Sorry I wasn't able to put in more time, but we had visits
to friends in Cartersville, GA; Fayetteville, NC; and Hixson, TN. Also I
met with Bob Lowe, G0FRL, my English counterpart of the FISTS QSL Bureau
in Atlanta. Bob made a few contacts as W4/G0FRL from my mobile in Fulton
Co. Great contest thought; look forward to it again next year!
WB2ABD(Paul): Mobiles changing bands made for a very enjoyable contest.
All mobiles worked were very, very good operators. Great job!
WB6IYS(Bill): Had a great time this year and even managed to finish off
SC thanks to Ed (KN4Y/m). The score is a new high for me courtesy of
those three mighty mobiles: W9MSE, KN4Y, and W3DYA. They accounted for
124 of my multipliers. I think posting the results on the chcontest
reflector is a great idea. Each of us can put up our own, and you can
publish the final results when you get it all figured out.
WC5D(Van): We got our own weekend, we got sunspots, we got mobiles, we
got a great contst in 2000! Doubled the number of mobile QSO's over
1999. Worked Jeff, W9MSE, adn Ed, KN4Y, the most. Norm, W3DYA gets my
40M award; can't work him much on intra-Texas skip. All three are truly
dedicated, for for it, MARAC CW Contest Mobilers. W9MSE and KN4Y
accounted for nearly half of my mobile QSO's. But that says loads about
the number of other mobile operators out there running in 2000! NG0T,
KM4FO, and W1NN each 10+ mobile QSO's also. Many thanks to all! Picked
up two of my last ten for all CW from KN4Y in SC. At this rate, it
appears I may work my last cty for all CW during the contest one of these
years HI! This year was my #33 entry out of 34 CW contgests, with 24 in
a row. Obviously I wouldn't miss it. CU in '01.
JA9CWJ(Yoshi): I am excited about this contest. See you next time!
KD8HB(Joyce): Good start for Nth time? Don't laugh! I should have
been, and wish I had been, more acitve, but had other things to do! (You
done good - now that you whipped Hal, W8PN, in Ohio, I suggest you
practice up to attack Alan, K8CW, next year! NM)
VE2EM/M(Andy): A great turn-out by the mobiles this year! My "Last
call" from Delaware Co, NY, yielded a pile-up with 13 QSO's!
W9HB(Harold): My first MARAC Contest and it was great! Washn't planning
on operating more than a couple of hours, but it was fun, so rearranged
schedule and was able to operate from several IL counties even though I
had to spend some hours each morning at the "saltmine." Did not have
someone to drive while I operated, so was limited to county hopping. It
was a challenge to find a "high open operating location" away from noisy
power lines and out of traffic flow. The TS450S and the Outbacker worked
wll I feel and I had fun, so see you next year! Perhaps on both the
Phone and CW weekends.
W0GXQ(Jerry): I couldn't generate the same interest this year with the
terrible band conditions. Hope things will be different next time!
KN4Y/M(Ed): I live in FL and this year I tried something different. I
gave my driver a SC map and said drive through as many counties as
possible on Saturday and Sunday we will return through GA. We got lost
many times, but ran a bunch of counties in both states. The best part
was to give out some last counties. I ran 10, 15, 20 and 40 meters. 15
and 20 were the most productive, 10 meters was like Aunt Sophie - dead!
The 15 points for mobile killed me in scoring; I concentrated on giving
out counties to fixed and DX stations. The condx were OK, and I look
towards next year's contest. Norm did a great job getting good WX
scheduled. (I tried to explain to Ed his comments were for the results
not the RR, but you know how these famous writers are? NM)
K2NJ(Bill): Great contest, as usual. Problem arose when Gail told me to
get the RV ready for the weekend... naively - I though she was saying to
be "Let's pass out some counties in the CW contest." Actually she was
saying, "He stupid! you forgot we promised to go camping with the 4H
group... now get busy." So off to Monmouth Co. we went, and sorry to say
- stayed the entire weekend. Then to add insult to injury, she made me
socialize with the other members of the 4H Club... I only had time to
sporadically run into the RV and operate. Next year... gee, where have I
heard that before?
WA3GYW(Francis): I really like county hunting and have capability to
operate 40 through 15M QRP CW and 10M SSB AM and FM Mobile. I also
operate 6M and 2M mobile, too. I have operated QRP CW mobile on 20M and
15M with my HW8 Xceiver I built. 73 to all county hunters!
W1NN(Hal): I was not very well prepared for this year's contest.
Nothing new there, I'm afraid. I returned from a business trip to Japan
on Tuesday so I was still rather jet-lagged on Fri night. I decided
that I should minimize my driving (Like Norm, I do all of the driving and
operating by myself) so on Fri and Sat I stuck to counties close to my PA
QTH that were familiar to me from the PQP. I had business in Wash DC on
Mon morning so on Sun I drove back to my CT house to pack up and drove to
DC during the final hours of the contest. This allowed me to hit a total
of 29 counties in three call areas and six states (PA, NY, NJ, CT, MD and
DE). I was hoping to hit VA for state seven and call area number four
but the contest ended before I could get there! I missed about three
hours of operating time during the middle of the day on Sun but I was
able to put in a pretty full effort. It's an old story but condx didn't
seem to favor the Northeast again this year. There were many times when
I had no propagation to the three big county producers this year: W9MSE,
W3DYA and KN4Y. Comparing a few of my state multipliers with Norm's, I
found that Norm worked 35 MI counties versus only 16 for me. Norm worked
31 SC vounties vs. 13 for me. And he worked 30 IN counties vs. 18 for
me. I don't understand condx these days. It used to be that you could
at least count on working Texas all day long on 20 and 15, but there were
long stretches where I couldn't hear Norm at all. I hope condx are more
normal next year. Or are these normal conditions? I had to operate the
contest without my Bug Catcher. I lost the top part in last year's PAQP.
I ordered the new parts but I was not able to locate the mast until
after the contest. That hurt me a little on 40M but it wouldn't have
made any difference on 20. On a brighter note, I thought that mobile
participation was way up this year. I worked 21 other mobiles so
including me there were at least 22 mobiles on during the contest. (But
where are their logs?) We need to try to get some of these folks to put
more time on the air next year and it will do a lot to draw in fixed
station participation and make the contest even more fun.
Congratulations again to Jeff for an outstanding effort. He'll have a
tough time topping 74 counties in the future!
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FOR THE RECORD - 2000
Below are scores of the top ten stations in each category of operation
for the 34 years of this contest through 2000. Scores were adjusted
based on the pre-1996 scoring rules (3 points for mobiles and DX vs 15
and 5 points, respectively, beginning in 1996).
MOBILES PORTABLES FIXED
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1,548,572 K5LZO 1986 486,780 WA4PGM 1984 1,528,065 K5ZD 1986
943,893 KB5FU 1986 318,080 N4BP 1979 1,270,332 AI9X 1986
788,840 N5JJ 1983 309,690 K4PUZ 1972 1,028,456 N7TT 1986
641,058 N5RM 1985 220,869 K3KX 1975 1,024,002 K9BG 1983
605,024 W9MSE 2000 217,790 W7YS 1986 860,172 KC6CNV 1997
560,448 WC5D 1980 199,789 K9YR 1974 726,642 W1GNR 1983
543,382 N5JJ 1982 197,580 AD9UKM 1976 671,590 KS7T 1986
541,368 KN4Y 2000 197,286 NX4C 1985 670,032 N7TT 1983
530,705 W3DYA 2000 171,602 NU4O 1986 649,722 W7GHT 1983
529,650 W9MSE 1997 164,772 K0MT 1979 628,575 W1GNR 1984
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2001 (35TH) MARAC COUNTY HUNTERS CW CONTEST
0000Z Saturday May 5 to 2400Z Sunday May 6, 2001
The Mobile Amateur Radio Awards Club is pleased to sponsor the 35th
Annual County Hunters CW Contest. Mobile, Portable, and Fixed operation
from every county in the US is encouraged.
RULES: Fixed Stations may be worked only once on each band. U.S.
Mobiles and Portables (identified by signing /M or /P) may be worked each
time they change county or band; and when operating on county lines count
as one QSO, but the receiving station may count each county as a separate
multiplier. A station may not operate more than one transmitter at one
time.
EXCHANGE: Signal report, county, and state for U. S. stations. Signal
report, province(Canada) or country for other stations.
SCORING: For a valid contact, one station must be in a U.S County. One
point for Fixed stations; 15 points for U.S. Mobiles and Portables
(operating from more than one county); 5 points for DX. Controlled Net
contacts are invalid for contest purposes. FINAL SCORE = TOTAL QSO
POINTS times TOTAL NUMBER OF U. S. COUNTIES WORKED.
Mobiles and Portables changing states during the contest should calculate
their scores for each state and total score. Total Overall Score must
not count a county as a multiplier more than once regardless of the
mobile's county or band.
FREQUENCIES: CW: 3.575, 7.040, 14.050, 21.050, 28.050. Fixed Stations
should operate above these frequencies; mobiles, below.
AWARDS: MARAC Contest Certificates:
First Place Fixed in each State, Canadian Province, and Country.
First Place Mobile in each State.
MARAC Contest Plaques:
1st and 2nd place Mobile in the U.S
1st and 2nd place U.S. Fixed station
1st place Canadian Station
1st place DX station.
For contest purposes, DX is any country other than the U.S., Canada, and
Mexico.
Send completed logs and summary sheet by June 8, 2001, to:
Norm Beavers W3DYA
3320 McMillan Drive
Tyler, TX 75701-8239
or email to: w3dya@juno.com (text or WORD .DOC files OK).
Contest package available on request.
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