Results:
Spring
2004 (Eta Aquarids) North American High Speed Meteor Scatter Rally
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Final comments from the Contest Managers | Awards Posting | NAHSMS Page |
Code ... Assisted / Unassisted / Grids
Unassisted Single Band Low Power | Assisted Single Band Low Power | |||||||||||||||||
Call | Grid | Time Zone | 50 | 144 | 222 | Points | Grids | Score | Call | Grid | Time Zone | 50 | 144 | 222 | Points | Grids | Score | |
W0AMT | EN24 | CST | 0/6/5 | **** | **** | 18 | 5 | 90 | N3FZ | EN90 | EST | **** | 16/0/16 | **** | 16 | 16 | 256 | |
W0IOH | DM78 | MST | 0/5/5 | **** | **** | 15 | 5 | 75 | WB2FKO | DM65 | MST | **** | 9/2/11 | **** | 15 | 11 | 165 | |
K9SQL | EM69 | EST | 0/3/3 | **** | **** | 9 | 3 | 27 | ||||||||||
N6MZ | CN87 | PST | 0/2/2 | **** | **** | 6 | 2 | 12 | ||||||||||
KB0USF | DM79 | MST | 0/1/1 | **** | **** | 3 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||||
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Unasssisted Single Band High Power | Assisted Single Band High Power | |||||||||||||||||
Call | Grid | Time Zone | 50 | 144 | 222 | Points | Grids | Score | Call | Grid | Time Zone | 50 | 144 | 222 | Points | Grids | Score | |
K2TXB | FM29 | EST | **** | 0/13/12 | **** | 39 | 12 | 468 | KC6ZWT | CM98 | PST | **** | 6/0/6 | **** | 6 | 6 | 36 | |
Unasssited Multiband Low Power | Assisted Multiband Low Power | |||||||||||||||||
Call | Grid | Time Zone | 50 | 144 | 222 | Points | Grids | Score | Call | Grid | Time Zone | 50 | 144 | 222 | Points | Grids | Score | |
N5SIX | EM42 | CST | 0/13/13 | 0/6/6 | **** | 57 | 19 | 1083 | AF40 | EM55 | CST | 19/4/23 | 13/2/15 | **** | 50 | 38 | 1900 | |
WA5UFH | EL19 | CST | 0/13/12 | 0/5/5 | **** | 54 | 17 | 918 | K4MM | EL97 | EST | 11/1/12 | 9/1/10 | **** | 26 | 22 | 572 | |
AJ6T | CM87 | PST | 0/10/10 | 0/4/4 | **** | 42 | 14 | 588 | WW2R | EM13 | CST | 6/0/6 | 12/2/14 | 1/0/1 | 27 | 21 | 567 | |
AA9MY | EN50 | CST | 0/7/7 | 0/4/4 | **** | 33 | 11 | 363 | NJ0U | EN71 | EST | 9/0/9 | 7/1/8 | **** | 19 | 17 | 323 | |
KI7JA | CN85 | PST | 0/3/3 | 0/1/1 | **** | 12 | 4 | 48 | WA3LTB | EN92 | EST | 1/1/2 | 11/1/12 | **** | 18 | 14 | 252 | |
AD4TJ | FM08 | EST | 0/1/1 | 0/0/0 | **** | 3 | 1 | 3 | VE7DXG | CN88 | PST | 2/2/4 | 2/0/2 | **** | 10 | 6 | 60 | |
Unassisted Multiband High Power | Assisted Multiband High Power | |||||||||||||||||
Call | Grid | Time Zone | 50 | 144 | 222 | Points | Grids | Score | Call | Grid | Time Zone | 50 | 144 | 222 | Points | Grids | Score | |
K0AWU | EN37 | CST | 21/4/23 | 26/2/26 | 3/0/3 | 74 | 52 | 3848 | ||||||||||
K0RI | DM78 | MST | 17/0/17 | 16/6/22 | **** | 51 | 39 | 1989 | ||||||||||
K1JT | FN20 | EST | 15/1/16 | 19/1/20 | 2/0/2 | 46 | 38 | 1748 | ||||||||||
N8OC | EN83 | EST | 3/5/8 | 2/13/15 | **** | 59 | 23 | 1357 | ||||||||||
W5SNX | EM73 | EST | 6/2/8 | 11/2/13 | **** | 29 | 21 | 609 | ||||||||||
K9KNW | EL96 | EST | **** | 9/4/13 | 2/0/2 | 27 | 15 | 405 | ||||||||||
W9RVG | EM57 | CST | 2/0/2 | 2/1/3 | **** | 7 | 5 | 35 | ||||||||||
76 Grids Active During the Rally .... (from the logs)
CM87 | DM33 | EL17 | EM12 | EN24 | FM04 |
CM98 | DM43 | EL19 | EM13 | EN36 | FM06 |
CN84 | DM65 | EL29 | EM21 | EN37 | FM08 |
CN85 | DM78 | EL39 | EM25 | EN41 | FM15 |
CN87 | DM79 | EL88 | EM32 | EN50 | FM18 |
CN88 | DN06 | EL96 | EM39 | EN53 | FM29 |
CN90 | DN06 | EL97 | EM42 | EN54 | FN20 |
DN13 | EL99 | EM45 | EN64 | FN24 | |
DN31 | EM50 | EN65 | FN30 | ||
DN41 | EM52 | EN66 | FN31 | ||
DN62 | EM55 | EN70 | FN41 | ||
EM57 | EN71 | FN65 | |||
EM66 | EN80 | ||||
EM66 | EN82 | ||||
EM69 | EN83 | ||||
EM73 | EN84 | ||||
EM86 | EN90 | ||||
EM92 | EN91 | ||||
EM96 | EN92 |
84 Unique Calls ... (from the logs)
AA7A | K0AWU | KB0USF | N0PB | W0AMT | WA3LTB |
AA9MY | K0RI | KB4FQ | N3FZ | W0IC | WA4HEI |
AD4TJ | K1JT | KB4ZGO | N4ZQ | W0IOH | WA5UFH |
AF40 | K2BLA | KB9ZTF | N5OSK | W1IPL | WA7ADK |
AJ6T | K2DRH | KC0AMG | N5SIX | W1JJ | WA7GSK |
K2OVS | KC5OAO | N5SIX/M | W4RBO | WA8CLT | |
K2TXB | KC6ZWT | N6MZ | W4SW | WA8RJF | |
VE1RG | K4AL | KC7OTV | N8CJK | W5SNX | WB2FKO |
VE7DXG | K4FJW | KE2N | N8OC | W5UC | WB8SKP |
K4KO | KE7NR | NJ0U | W5UWB | WB9IIV | |
K4MM | KI0LE | NS7K | W5ZN | WC4N | |
K5CZD | KI7JA | W6TMS | WD4KPD | ||
K5GMX | KØKP | W8BYA | WQ5W | ||
K7AD | KR8L | W9BLI | WW2R | ||
K7BV | KU7Z | W9FX | |||
K8MD | W9JN | ||||
K9CEG | W9RVG | ||||
K9KNW | W9SE | ||||
K9SQL |
The end of the Rally was slow here, so took the opportunity to
complete my log, hi! I wasn't serious ....
just wanted to have some fun! I could've done better if I had
really tried, but here's my log anyway.
73's / Jack / N3FZ
Hi Tip - here's my summary for Rally. Thunderstorms wiped out a
lot of my time on weekends, and was
away on business trips all week. Tried to concentrate on random
contacts to maximize score when I could
get on air
Dave
Tip - here you go. Didn't take long to get my 19 simple qso's
together! Sure is too bad I didn't get
to run from Memphis last weekend (or at least completed with W8PAT!)
Might have picked up and given out
a few more. Really only had one attempt here that I didn't
complete - KB4FQ. He disappeared one AM
after good start.
Bruce
Here is my summary sheet for the Spring 04 NAMSR. Lots of fun as
always. Got me back on WSJT for a while.
Things had gotten kinda "slow" lately. Sorry I didn't
work you. Heard you being called once but didn't
hang around to try to tailend.
Bill
Enjoyed the rally as much as fly fishing!
Will
Well besides working Saturday night (4 hours 8&9th) at the
hospital repairing a fairly major water leak
and then getting up early to do some Rally and fixing coffee
without putting the coffee pot underneath
(ran all over the kitchen) I had a great time. Just gave up after
that ordeal and went to sleep. Note
log hihi, no qsos after early on the 9th utc.
Charles
I setup two complete stations on 6 meters and 2 meters so that I
could operate simultaneously on both bands.
That meant two rigs, amps, antennas, computers and interfaces. I
sent the RX audio into a stereo headset
so 6m pings were heard in the left ear and 2m pings in the right
ear. The dual frequency setup was a lot of
fun, but sometimes I needed more than two hands to keep both
stations going as I clicked back and forth on
the two computers. It was very interesting to listen to a couple
of meteors that produced simultaneous pings
(from different stations) on both bands
the 2m burst was
much shorter than the 6m burst as expected.
All of my activity from CM87 was unassisted, and that meant a lot
of CQing with no replies. I am very pleased
that the WSJTgroup encourages unassisted operation.
I was only active during the two weekends of the Rally since I
had to travel to Texas on business during the week. I setup a 6m
WSJT station from my hotel room in Waco using just a dipole out
the window, but I was not quite able to complete any QSOs as AJ6T/5
in EM11. However, I did come within one RRR of finishing with W0IOH
in Colorado.
I was disappointed by the relatively low activity in this MS
Rally. The event should have been publicized more
widely (and earlier) in an effort to draw additional operators
into the fray. It would have helped out here on
the West Coast if an announcement had been sent to the WSWSS and
NWWSVHF reflectors.
The scoring for this Rally gave equal QSO point values for
contacts on 6 and 2 meters. Since pings are so much
less frequent and shorter on 2 meters compared to 6 meters, I
think more credit should be given for QSOs made
on 2 meters. I suggest a scoring scheme like this:
50 1 point
144 3 points
222 5 points
432 10 points
It would be helpful if the WSJTgroup provided some additional
guidelines for standard procedures for moving a
station from one band to another. In particular, if a contact on
6 meters concludes with a request to QSY 2m
should the attempt on the higher band be made in the same
sequence used on 6 meters, even if the 6 meter contact
had been made on the wrong sequence (i.e., with the
westernmost station transmitting 2nd)? I think the QSY
procedure should be for the stations to use the
standard sequence (western or southern station first)
on the
new band, regardless of the sequence used on the first band. This
is worth some discussion by the WSJTgroup
members since it is so important not to waste any meteors on the
higher frequency bands where pings are infrequent.
Walt
Not good conditions for the Rally here on the West Coast. I made
a total of 4 contacts over the 10 days.
Stations that I have worked before.
Bruce
Was fun while it lasted!
Now going through withdrawal symptoms..hi..hi... Atleast 6M
opened up a couple times over last few days
and worked a few there....
Terry
I hope I laid this out correctly and figured it out right. I may
have had another random, but I never
bothered to log it as such, so I can only claim the one. Thanks
for a fun time.
Marshall
Thanks for organizing the Rally. Unfortunately I did not have
much time operate this time, I'll try to be
on more for the next rally.
Gabor
The contest was fun. I started out attempting to do all my CQ
calls on my specified frequency, thinking I
would avoid the interference on 140. Well by the second day it
was obvious there were no pile-ups on 140
and I was getting no answers down on 105, so I switched to
calling CQ on 140, with D35. That worked pretty
well but I really think there should have been more activity on
the calling frequency. I suspect that a
lot of operators didn't spend much time monitoring there, and
instead concentrated their efforts on the
PJ Page. Hopefully for the next Rally, the word to monitor 140
between contacts will get out better. I
missed the last day because of it being Mother's Day and family
doings out of town.
Russ
I called CQ or monitored 9 days of the rally on six and two
meters and heard only a handful of stations, one of which was
K2TXB, who was on ground wave so I couldn't work him for a valid
contact. The others heard were: KE2N, N8OC, WA8LCE,
N5SIX ( i worked ) and W5SNX and AF4O. I hope others had more
susccess that I did.
David
Final Comments from the contest managers...
The Spring Rally has three main objectives. First is to promote the use of HSMS during the Eta Aquarids meteor shower. The next is to establish a Rally / Contest atmosphere where HSMS operators can enjoy themselves making contacts via meteor scatter propagation and to provide spirited and friendly competition. All three of these objectives were meet.
Thanks to all who participated during the rally! Thanks to Mike WB2FKO for providing a web page for pre-posting / rumored scores and thanks to Russ K2TXB for reworking the Rally rules.
The total number of stations who choose to operate Unassisted was twelve vs sixteen "Asssited". The new rules allowed for Assisted stations to make random contacts for an additional credit. This part of the rules was not fully utilized in my opinion by those who operate assisted. Perhaps in future contests participants should consider taking advantage of this in order to enhance their scores and satisfaction. It does appear that more stations are working the "Unassisted" method!
The NAHSMS Contests continue to use Time Zones for determining geographic high score winners. This method provides an opportunity for all operators by leveling the playing field.
Participation was down from previous events and some well known stations choose not to participate. However, meteor scatter contesting continues to be enjoyed by many operators with 84 known participants having taken advantage of the last rally.
On the positive side of things, the West Coast participation is up and new comers to WSJT are engaging in meteor scatter contesting.There were 76 unique grids from the logs received which is down from previous contests but not a major concern.
In my estimation, The NAHSMS Rally was a success. Even though greater participation by the entire community and more logs submitted would be nice; numbers are not everything! The event was organized and the participation again demonstrated that HSMS operators or Best In Class. Congratulations to all
Russ K2TXB ; Joe K1JT ; John N6ENU ; Tip WA5UFH