Maine QSO Party - 2020 MEQP Results

Congratulations to our 2020 Maine QSO Party Winners!

This year's Overall Winner is:

Axel Bruderer, KI6RRN, of La Mesa, CA. Axel scored a total of 417,679 points, making 1920 QSO's! 2020 was a record year for entries. We received 197 logs from 7 different countries, 41 U.S. States, 2 Canadian Provinces, and 7 Maine Counties. Thanks to everyone who participated!

The most popular categories were the Single Operator Low Power (SOLP) class, with 125 entries, followed by Single Operator High Power (SOHP), with 55 entries.

This year's Category winners:

Michael Snook W7LG, from Lewiston, PA, captured the Single Operator QRP (SOQRP) category with 2,508 points. 2019 Overall Winner, Stefania Watson K1GJY won the Single Operator Low Power (SOLP) category with 60,241 points. This year's overall winner, Axel Bruderer KI6RRN, won the Single Operator High Power (SOHP) category with 417.679 points, and in Multi Op, Richard (W4THI) and Debra (KN4NZH) Lucas, of Jupiter, FL won in Multi Operator Low Power (MOLP), while Ethan (N1SOH) and Jacob (W1FM) Handwerker, of Lexington, MA, continued their winning ways in Multi Operator High Power (MOHP), picking up their fourth win in the category.

State and Province Winners:

CA	KI6RRN	417679
CO	WA2JQZ	36
CT	W1ZFG	36
DE	AC3LZ	5280
FL	AA4TI	46980
GA	K4VBM	7800
ID	KA7T	1428
IL	WB9HFK	10725
IN	KJ9B	304
IA	WI0WA	3212
KS	AD0AB	3402
KY	KM4FO	40
ME	AB1EP	134676
MD	N3AM	408
MA	N1SOH	1462
MI	WB8WKQ	20405
MN	KA0PQW	2200
MO	AD0YM	377
MS	KB8VND	9768
MT	KJ9C	2673
NE	KV0I	67624
NH	AC1GF	6804
NJ	W2CVW	1325
NM	W5RES	2
NY	NO2C	3036
NC	W1AJT	1470
ND	ND0TS	180
OH	KD8W	3082
OK	K5CM	249000
OR	K4XU	117696
PA	K3PP	21840
RI	W1WBB	20246
SC	WN4AFP	15246
TN	W4SSF	320
TX	KE6C	76502
VT	AA1SU	61490
VA	W4PM	7076
WA	W6OAT	16
WV	N8II	141493
WI	K9GDF	1782
WY	WC7S	864

NB	VE9OA	3807
ON	VE3MV	3150

National winners:

Canada	VE9OA	3807
Dominican Republic	HI8A	300
Germany	DL3DXX	12
Netherlands	PA3AAV	6
Slovakia	OM2VL	117
Sweden	SM2R	12
United States	KI6RNN	417679

Maine County Winners:

CBL	K1JB	112726
FRA	N1DFD	11730
HAN	AB1EP	134676
KEN	W1AO	48510
OXF	K1ESE	9700
WAL	N1CGP	3280
YOR	K1GJY	60241

Other notes:

Two logging programs were primarily used to submit logs this year. These include N1MM and N3FJP. A handful of entrants used logs designed for other QSO parties, or chose the wrong MEQP log (in-state log for out of state ops or vice versa), so we had to calculate these by hand to generate a score. Please use and submit the appropriate logs, or they will be considered check logs in the future.

Tad Cook, K7RA reported in the K7RA Solar Update that: "A new sunspot group AR2773 appeared, which has a magnetic signature indicating it’s part of new Solar Cycle 25," on September 23, just prior to the contest period.

On Thursday, September 24, the solar flux was 73.6.

Predicted planetary A index was 15, 12, 25, and 15 on September 25 – 28

The geomagnetic activity forecast for September 25 – October 20, from F.K. Janda, OK1HH:

unsettled to active September 25 – 26, 28 – 29, (October 11, 20)
active to disturbed (September 27)
Solar wind will intensify on September (27 – 28,) 29 – 30, October 1, 13 – 14, (15, 21,) 22

The OK1HH forecast saw active to disturbed conditions on September 27, which matched the NOAA and USAF A index prediction of 25 on that date.

Club Competition

In the club competition, the Southern California Contest Club took the top spot, with 3 log entries totaling 439,558 points. Congratulations! Below is a rundown of the top clubs:

Club	Score	Number of Logs
Southern California Contest Club	439558	3
Yankee Clipper Contest Club	174103	7
Potomac Valley Radio Club	146218	6
Willamet Valley DX Club	118036	2
Wireless Society of Southern Maine	90896	3
Radio Amateurs of Northern Vermont	61490	1
Southeast Contest Club	50688	1
Florida Contest Group	48006	4
Frankford Radio Club	27210	4

Congratulations to all the winners, and we look forward to hearing from you again in 2021!

Click here to download the complete 2020 contest results.