[Wswss] Results, 2014 2 GHz & Up Contest

[Marty Woll]

The results are in for the 2014 running of the 2 Gigahertz & Up Contest, and
this year saw 23 entries from around the U.S. and Canada, representing five
radio clubs. 

 

In the traditional Club Competition, the San Bernardino Microwave Society
came out on top, with eight entries aggregating 48,193 points.  Second place
went to the 50 Megahertz and Up Group of Northern California, with seven
entries and 29,833 points.  Following the top two were the Northern Lights
Radio Society with five entries and 6,885 points, the San Diego Microwave
Group with one entry and 1,798 points, and Contest Club Ontario with two
entries and 1,616 points.

 

An Individual Competition was added this year as part of an overhaul of the
contest rules.  Coming out on top was Marty N6VI, operating from Frazier
Peak, with 11,893 points and a contest-best DX of 439 kilometers.  Chris
N9RIN, who guest-operated N6NB's Panorama Heights station, took second place
overall with 10,858 points and had the top single-band score on 24 GHz.  In
third place was Andreas N6NU, who roved in the Central Valley using only 10
GHz.  He finished with 10,538 points and the top X-band score.  In fourth,
fewer that fifty points behind Andreas, was Wayne N6NB, who roved with five
bands and made the top scores on three of them (2, 3 and 5 GHz), turning in
a grand total of 10,493 points.  Fifth place went to Mike K6ML, who roved
with N6NU and racked up 9,774 points.

 

Complete results will be posted on the SBMS Web site.  You will see photos
and stories from the contest in last month's SBMS Newsletter.  If you have
some to add, please send them to the SBMS Webmaster, W6SZ
(rein0zn at ix.netcom.com).

 

Thanks to Wayne N6NB for an improved set of rules, to Bill WA6QYR for
collecting and compiling the entries, to everyone who helped publicize the
contest, and to all who got on the air to put contacts into the logs!