SPARC Club Contesting 

SPARC club members participate in several ARRL and CQ contests with a CLUB entry. Several ARRL events allow for club entries and some CQ contests allow for Club and Team entries.

Background

The ARRL General Rules state that eight ARRL sponsored contests are designated as Affiliated Club Competitions. SPARC participates as a "Local" club in that we submit 10 or fewer entries per contest. SPARC participates in some, but not all, of the following contests:


Some of the CQ WW contests allow for Contesting.
     For Team Contesting, a team consists of any five radio amateurs operating in the single operator category. Lists of team members are due before the start of the contest. The contests permitting team contesting are:


     CQ WW also provides for Club competition, defined as a minimum of three logs received. A list of club members with their score is submitted after the contest. These contests are:


SPARC Participation

The following table highlights SPARC participation in Club contesting.

Month	Contest	2008		2007		2006		2005		2004		2003		2002		2001		2000		1999		1998		1997
		Score	Log	Score	Log	Score	Log	Score	Log	Score	Log	Score	Log	Score	Log	Score	Log	Score	Log	Score	Log	Score	Log	Score	Log
Jan	ARRL RTTY Roundup		0	9,816	2	2,160	1	3,268	1	12,662	3	0		0		0		0		0		0		0
Feb	ARRL Intl DX Contest CW	311,634	3	0		363,573	2	200,910	1	258,687	1	535,392	1	518,418	1	0		0		0		0		0
Mar	ARRL Intl DX Contest Phone	243,408	1	273,933	4	354,966	3	219,351	1	469,749	3	376,122	3	903,960	2	0		0		1,123,904	10	336,294	3	240,927	3
Oct	CQ WW DX Phone					0		0		0		0		0		0		0		0
Nov	ARRL Sweepstakes Phone			50,806	4	75,856	3	90,826	5	73,800	4	64,768	4	67,788	4	115,160	8	0		37,920	3	107,058	5	108,552	4
Nov	CQ WW DX CW					227,225		0		1,922,490		1,193,426		0		1,195,439		0
Dec	ARRL 160-Meter Contest			136,478	3	40,014	1	0		111,877	3	2,016	1	0		0		0		0		0		0
Dec	ARRL 10-Meter Contest			0		0		0		4,590	1	238,546	4	858,442	3	290,364	4	0		0		107,652	3	0