Congratulations
to our 2022 Maine
2 Meter FM Simplex Challenge Winners!
This
year's Overall Winner is:
A tie between Tim Watson KB1HNZ and Stefania Watson K1GJY, from
Saco, Maine,
who made 164 QSOs,
in 17 different towns, for a total of 2,788 points.
Congratulations on a job well done! Tim and Stefania operated as Mobile
Medium, working a route that began in Camp Ellis, moving up the coast
to Waldoboro, and then west to Auburn. The stations
listed
below in
blue are the 2022 category winners.
CATEGORY
Fixed
Mobile
Mobile
Fixed
Fixed
Fixed
Fixed
Mobile
Mobile
Fixed
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POWER
LEVEL
High
Medium
Medium
Medium
Medium
Medium
Medium
QRP
QRP
QRP
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CALL
SIGN
N1RXR
KB1HNZ
K1GJY
K1HC
WD1F
K1JJS
AC1FB
KB1YYC
KC1LSO
AC1LP
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NAME
Eric Emery
Tim Watson
Stefania Watson
Dick Bean
Donnie Dauphin
John Goran
Ara Kemezys
Dakota Dumont
John Horton
Norris Dale
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QSOs
/ Bonus Points / MULTS
40 / 0 / 17
164 / 0
/ 17
164 / 0 / 17
79 / 0 / 35
65 / 0 / 29
53 / 0 / 25
30 / 0 / 15
31 / 0 / 10
30 / 0 / 10
47 / 0 / 14
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FINAL
SCORE
680
2,788
2,788
2,765
1,885
1,325
450
310
300
216
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Although most pandemic-related restrictions had been lifted by late March, served agencies, such as the National
Weather Service, County EMAs, and Red Cross facilities were still closed to
the public, which prevented activations from those facilities.
John Horton KC1LSO, and Dakota
Dumont
KB1YYC, operated
as QRP mobiles, while Stefania Watson K1GJY and Tim Watson KB1HNZ, operated in the Medium Mobile
category. Dakota and John were heard mostly in the towns around
Portland and west
(Falmouth, Yarmouth, Cumberland, Westbrook, Windham, etc.), while Tim and Stefania covered the
most ground, ranging from Camp Ellis to Waldoboro, and west along Rt. 196 to Androscoggin County.
Similar to years past, the most popular categories were the
medium-powered classes, and they were also the most competitive,
with K1GJY and KB1HNZ being even on QSOs and multipliers in Medium
Mobile, and Medium Fixed tied a continued to show a strong number of
entries. K1HC and WD1F led the pack, but K1JJS and AC1FB were close
behind.
Some
stations that
appeared in many logs, include KC1HBL, KC1MPV, K1CYJ,
and WZ1J, but of those only KC1MPV and K1CYJ submitted logs.
Other Medium Class notables:
CATEGORY
Fixed
Fixed
Fixed
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CALL
SIGN
K1PQ
KC1MPV
K1CYJ
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NAME
Lloyd Frink
Melville Conner
Alfred Marin
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QSOs
/ MULTS
9 / 0 / 8
10 / 0 / 7
5 / 0 / 4
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FINAL
SCORE
72
70
20
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Club Scores:
1. Wireless Society of
Southern Maine: 7,533 points (8 logs)
2. Merrymeeting Amateur Radio Association: 4,160 points (3 logs)
3. Piscataquis Amateur Radio Club: 72 points (1 log)
Over the
past few years we've supported multiple groups around the country and
are happy to share our rules format and ideas
for
promoting similar SIMPLEX events. We're open to new ideas too,
and
continually try to improve the 2 Meter FM Simplex Challenge to make it
more fun and competitive.
2022
2 Meter FM Simplex Visual Study
2022 Maine 2 Meter FM Simplex Challenge Point-to-Point study.
The purple lines show contacts by Stefania Watson during the 2022
FM Simplex Challenge.
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