[NLRS] Fw: [SMC] 2012 Jan results now on-line

[Todd Sprinkmann]

    Good evening BC and NLRS,

    W9GKA Kevin has asked me to forward this info about
the Jan 2012 ARRL VHF Contest to both the BC and NLRS
email reflectors.
     Here it is...

    73,
    Todd   KC9BQA    EN63ao    40 N of Milwaukee
    www.kc9bqa.com   For Frequent VHF/UHF Updates
    www.wivuch.com   WI  VHF/UHF County Hunters Award

    PS:  June contest is the 9th and 10th; 2 weeks from tomorrow.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "kevin kaufhold" <kkaufhold at yahoo.com>
To: <SMC at w9smc.com>; <PrimeARA at yahoogroups.com>; 
<THE_SLAMS at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, May 25, 2012 8:59 PM
Subject: [SMC] 2012 Jan results now on-line


> The January VHF Contest results article is now on-line, available to 
> all ARRL members. The July 2012 QST article, the expanded edition, the 
> data base, and all tables are in the contest section of the League's 
> web-pages, and all far before the official publication date. Please 
> let me know if you like it (or not), as I wrote the article !
>
> Thank you to everyone who provided activity reports and log extracts, 
> es to the League support for their wonderful assistance (especially 
> KX9X, N0AX). I received almost 30 log extracts and around 100 activity 
> reports. We spent a lot of time extensively documenting the 
> extraordinary propagation this year. Some 40K in Es Q's, 1000 + Au 
> Q's, numerous F2 or double-hop Es, and 4 TEP contacts were downloaded 
> into google maps, with some spectacular visuals and 13 or more hourly 
> propagation maps being generated. The maps are available in the 
> extended edition. The mapping proved to be very challenging, I was not 
> sure we could bring such detail into the the maps. But grid end 
> points, distances of each Q, likely mid-points, number of grid pairs 
> worked in each hour, were all generated in a visual format, and with 
> click and point popping up the statistics. K9JK did the technical 
> work-up on the maps, and deserves great credit for his innovations. In
> fact, John really should get some kind of technical award for the 
> effort. I have never seen anything quite like this before with so much 
> detail.
>
> On the club aggregate, Mt Airy won the unlimited with 77 logs and 2.4 
> Million points. Nacogdoches won the medium club, with 15 logs, and 3 
> Million points. This shows the power of rovers, as this one club from 
> Texas had at least 8 (or more) rovers with club scores. Among the 
> clubs active in the region, SMC was 6th in the medium with 13 logs and 
> 175K in points, and Badgers were 8th, 21 logs, and 122 K in points. 
> Bristol TN ARC won the local club competition with 10 logs and 47,770 
> points. I think some of our local clubs in the Midwest could get close 
> to that score, if we worked at it.
>
> For those clubs that are primarily microwave in nature (SLAMS is on 
> this e-mail post), please note the tremendous upper band activity in 
> the contest --- 400 + Q's were made on 5.7G and 10G; 700 + Q's 
> nation-wide on 3.4G; 935 Q's on 2.3G; and almost 2,000 Q's on 1296. 
> Now that is a lot of u-wave's, anyway you cut it.
>
> On the individual high scorers in the region / local area, or people 
> that I have gotten to know, Bob, K2DRH again won the nation in SOLP at 
> 151K. Lyoyd, N9LB and Jim, K8MR were high in the region in SOLP. Paul, 
> W0UC won the region in SOHP and 4th in the nation. Dan, K9EA and Ken, 
> W9GA also placed well in the SOHP. N8XA was 2nd in the nation QRP, and 
> Zack, W9SZ was 4th in the nation in QRP (Congrats again Zack for being 
> awarded the 2011 June gavel by SMC, you were even written up in the 
> N0AX contest rate sheet). Jay, W9RM and Gene, N9TF were high up in the 
> M-L, while Marshall, W9RVG and Barry, N2BJ did good in the M-U. Steve, 
> N4JQQ, was 10th in the nation in MO from TN. Tom, K9TMS; N9REP, Bruce, 
> W9FZ; John, K9JK; Mike, WB8BZK, all did wonderful in their various 
> rover categories.
>
> As I anticipate writing the January results article for the next few 
> years, I will plan on making more of an dedicated effort at operating 
> in it. I did not know I was writing the article until it was too late 
> to become very active in this year's contest, so I am a bit 
> embarrassed by that (I was 2nd SOLP in the Illinois section in last 
> year's 2011 Jan, however, so I at least worked hard one year early! ). 
> Local support would be greatly appreciated in 2013 !
>
>
> Kevin
> W9GKA
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