Congratulations
to our 2014 Maine
QSO Party Winners!
This year's Overall Winner is:
Joseph
Blinick, K1JB,
from Portland, Maine. Joseph scored a total of 137085 points, making
697 QSO's and capturing 191 multipliers. We're proud that he
represented Maine and we congratulate him for being the first two-time
winner of the competition!
2014
Final Results
| SOQRP |
Loc |
Score |
SOLP |
Loc |
Score |
SOHP
|
Loc |
Score |
K3TW
|
FL
|
32
|
W1CPS
K1TC
WN4AFP
KQ6P
W8KNO
KD4QMY
AE6YB
N6ENO
K7JKM
KB1YTR
N0ZTO
SA6CME
N3HCN
K4BLL
K2CDX
K9GDF
KB1YYC
LR1A*
|
CBL ME
HAN
ME
SC
CA
OH
GA
CA
CA
OR
CBL ME
CO
Sweden
MD
GA
NY
WI
AND ME
Argentina
|
2030
143
111
40
24
16
12
12
12
9
4
4
4
4
4
4
2
2
|
K1JB*+
KB1HNZ
YO9GJY*
K4BAI
KI6ORO
|
CBL ME+
CBL
ME
Romania
GA
CA
|
137085
104728
9858
18
4
|
For the
second year in a
row, the contest saw nationwide and international challengers, with
logs coming
in from as far away as Romania. Continental winners include
Jorge
Sierra LR1A, for South America, Stefania Chiruta YO9GJY for Europe, and
Joseph Blinick K1JB, for North America.
National winners
include Lars Linderos SA6CME, for Sweden, Stefania Chiruta YO9GJY, for
Romania, Jorge Sierra LR1A, for Argentina, and Joe Blinick, K1JB, for
the United States.
In the Categories, Charlie Shepard W1CPS took the top spot in Single
Operator Low Power,
with fellow Mainer and Hancock County winner Tom Clements K1TC, coming
in second. Tom Warren K3TW, of Florida, took the top prize for Single
Operator QRP. The most competitive category was Single
Operator High Power, which saw overall winner, Joe Blinick
K1JB, take the top spot, with second place, Tim Watson
KB1HNZ, only 19 QSO's behind.
The
most
accurate logs (with over 10 QSO's), include those submitted by KB1YTR,
KQ6P, W1CPS, YO9GJY, K1TC, and KB1HNZ. On average only 4% of all logs
included
errors such as miscopied calls and unmatched QSO's.
One thing
we noticed, while examining logs, was a large number of call signs
from newly licensed or upgraded hams. Some of these had only gained HF
privileges days before the contest took place, which means the MEQP was
possibly the first HF contest they took part in.
Three logging programs were primarily used to submit logs this year.
These include Scott Davis' N3FJP
Maine QSO Party Contest Log, N1MM
with the ME QSO Party update,
and EI5DI's SD
log.
Once again, congratulations to all the winners, and we look forward to
hearing from you again next year!
Other Notes:
Check Logs:
W1WMG
WS1SM
Solar
- Terrestrial Conditions during the contest: SFI: 158, SN: 139,
A-Index: 15, K-Index: 2. According to the K7RA Solar Update,
solar
activity was down the week previous to the contest, but solar flux was
on a rising trend by the 27-28 of September. The largest solar event of
the period was a M5 event observed at 0258Z on the 28th, from Region
2173 (S17W39). There were 7 numbered sunspot regons on the disk at the
time. |
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