Maine QSO Party - 2015 MEQP Results

Congratulations to our 2015 Maine QSO Party Winners!

This year's Overall Winner is:

Joseph Blinick, K1JB, from Portland, Maine. Joseph scored a total of 138,852 points. He beat his previous record by 1,767 points! We're proud that he represented Maine and we congratulate him for being the first three-time winner of the competition!

2015 Final Results

SOQRP	Loc	Score	SOLP	Loc	Score	SOHP	Loc	Score
WN4AFP K3TW W4UT KF7AXB KA3UOL	SC FL TN WA PA	104 18 8 2 2	W1CPS K1TC KD8HAM W7KAM VE2GT NM5WB KC3ASH KE8ANS G4JFS KC0VFP SM5NQB SP6JOE K4VBM AB4LX W4BK LR1A N7MZW N0ZTO KC0IUY	CBL ME HAN ME MN MO QC NM MD OH England MN Sweden Poland GA GA SC Argentina WY CO KS	5454 540 304 200 85 18 14 12 10 8 8 6 4 2 2 2 1 1 1	K1JB*⁺ W5WMU W1WMG K5KPE KB1HNZ SE5L N9NBC NS8O W9MHZ	CBL ME LA CBL ME AR CBL ME Sweden WI OH IL	138852 45,236 16,352 11,564 10,902 8 8 8 2

For the third year in a row, the contest saw nationwide and international challengers, with logs coming in from as far away as Poland. Continental winners include multi-time contestant Jorge Sierra LR1A, for South America, Jack Fitzsimons G4JFS, for Europe, and Joseph Blinick K1JB, for North America.

National winners include Stanislaw Dzwoniarski SP6JOE, for Poland, Bengt Thorbjornsson SE5L, and Bo Cedwall SM5NQB, for Sweden, Jack Fitzsimons G4JFS, for England, Jorge Sierra LR1A, for Argentina, Pierre Jolin VE2GT, for Canada, 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. David Edmonds, of South Carolina, took the top prize for Single Operator QRP, while last year's winner Tom Warren K3TW, of Florida, came in second. Overall winner, Jow Blinick K1JB, continued his streak by winning Single Operator High Power, with Patrick Sonnier W5WMU, of Louisianna taking runner-up in the category and the overall.

The most accurate logs (with over 10 QSO's), include those submitted by W1WMG, W1CPS, WN4AFP, KD8HAM, W7KAM, K5KPE, VE2GT, K1TC, and KB1HNZ. On average only 4% of all logs included errors such as miscopied calls and unmatched QSO's.

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:

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Solar - Terrestrial Conditions during the contest: SFI: 110, SN: 148, A-Index: 8 K-Index: 2. According to the K7RA Solar Update, the daily sunspot number moved up from 66.9 for the week of September 10-16, to 73 for the period of the contest. The largest solar event of the period was a geomagnetic disturbance due to a coronal mass ejection at the end of the day on September 20, which indicated possible aurora and a high level of absorption for HF signals, but this condition improved by September 26-27.