Congratulations
to our 2023 Maine
2 Meter FM Simplex Challenge Winners!
This
year's Overall Winner is:
Stephen Jordan, KD1OM, of Bangor,
who made 89 QSOs,
in 49 different towns, for a total of 4,361 points!
Congratulations on a job well done! Stephen operated as Fixed
Medium, using a Motorola Spectra and a 5/8 wave ground plane antenna. The stations
listed
below in
blue are the 2023 category winners.
CATEGORY
Fixed
Mobile
Mobile
Mobile
Fixed
Fixed
Fixed
Fixed
Mobile
Mobile
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POWER
LEVEL
High
Medium
Medium
Medium
Medium
Medium
Medium
Medium
QRP
QRP
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CALL
SIGN
K1WJY
WA1IOG
W1LIC
AI1O
KD1OM
AE1CW
AC1FB
WA1URS
KB1YYC
KC1LSO
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NAME
Christopher Stanley
Wesley Linscott
Rebecca Rowe
Peter Bither
Stephen Jordan
James Kauppila
Ara Kemezys
Dennis Bosley
Dakota Dumont
John Horton
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QSOs
/ Bonus Points / MULTS
7 / 0 / 7
107 / 0
/ 24
93 / 0 / 23
77 / 0 / 16
89 / 0 / 49
71 / 1 / 47
34 / 0 / 27
43 / 0 / 21
22 / 0 / 7
22 / 0 / 7
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FINAL
SCORE
49
2,568
2,139
1,232
4,361
3,431
918
903
154
154
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The
2023 Maine 2 Meter FM Simplex Challenge took place Saturday, March
11th, from 12 PM to 4 PM. This year, we were happy to receive a lot of
logs from the Bangor area, so its great to see the contest is
continuing to grow in popularity and attract new participants from all
around the state.
John Horton KC1LSO, and Dakota
Dumont
KB1YYC, operated
as QRP mobiles, while Wesley Linscott WA1IOG, Rebecca Rowe W1LIC, Peter
Bither AI1O, and Frederick Nickerson K1CMN,
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
Wesley, Peter, and Rebecca traveled around the Bangor area, ranging
from Corinth to Holden and as far North as Alton.
Similar to years past, the most popular and most competitive categories
were the
medium-powered classes, followed by QRP, with QRP mobile being a tie
for first place between Dakota Dumont KB1YYC and John Horton KC1LSO.
Some
stations that
appeared in many logs, include KU1U, W1XAW, K1UC,
K1GUQ, W1JFF, K1GUP, KC1AMQ, KB1ZLV, and WZ1J, but of those only KC1AMQ and KB1ZLV submitted logs.
Other Medium
Class notables:
CATEGORY
Fixed
Fixed
Fixed
Fixed
Fixed
Fixed
Fixed
Fixed
Fixed
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CALL
SIGN
KC1AXY
KB1TUR
K2KJ
KB1YPZ
K1WJY
KB1ZLV
KC1AMQ
W1LXE
K1GC
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NAME
Luke Uhlman
Steve Ewing
Lloyd Frink
Clinton King
Christopher Stanley
Bert Dumont
Annette Dumont
William Lyons
Douglas McMullin
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QSOs
/ MULTS
27 / 0 / 14
14 / 0 / 14
11 / 0 / 9
10 / 0 / 9
7 / 0 / 7
8 / 0 / 4
8 / 0 / 4
6 / 0 / 5
5 / 0 / 5
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FINAL
SCORE
378
196
99
90
49
32
32
30
25
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Club Scores:
1. Pine State Amateur Radio Club: 11,333 (8 logs)
2. Wireless Society of Southern Maine: 1,290 (5 logs)
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.
2023
2 Meter FM Simplex Visual Study
2023 Maine 2 Meter FM Simplex Challenge Point-to-Point study.
The purple lines show contacts by Stephen Jordan KD1OM during the 2023
FM Simplex Challenge.
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