THE EUROPEAN CW ASSOCIATION
EuCW/AGCW QRS PARTY
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RESULTS OF THE 2012 EuCW/AGCW QRS PARTY
Results Class A (over 5W RF)
Call QSOs Pts Club
G4LHI 100 99.2 FISTS Award Winner
RD9CX 95 93.0 RUQRP Award Winner
G0EML 76 73.2 FISTS Award Winner
RW3AI 60 59.4 RUQRP
OH5FNI 48 42.8 FISTS
M0DRK 37 36.8 FISTS
OG9R 35 35.0 AGCW
ON6NA 25 24.0 BQRP
2E0JCY 21 20.2 FISTS
OE3KAB 20 19.8 OECWG
HB9DEO 15 14.6 HTC
G0ILN 14 13.4 FISTS
DF2ZY 11 11.0 AGCW
G3ZOD 10 10.0 FISTS
DL1DXL 9 8.8 AGCW
DL1AH 3 3.0 AGCW
HB9EWO 2 2.0 HTC
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IK2RMZ 82 CKLOG AGCW
Results Class B (up to 5W RF)
Call QSOs Pts Club
DK3UZ 57 57.0 AGCW Award Winner
2E0DPH 44 43.2 FISTS Award Winner
G0OTT 24 24.0 GQRP Award Winner
PA3AFF 8 7.2 BQRP
UU7JF 2 2.0 RUQRP
Results Class C-SWL: No entrants.
Results Club Championship
Pts Club
382 FISTS Award Winner (PDF award to ECM@FISTS)
240 AGCW
159 RUQRP
42 GQRP
39 BQRP
20 OECWG
17 HTC
Results Most Readable Morse (MRM)
Pts Call
374 OG9R (op OH7QR) Winner of the MRM award
194 2E0DPH
132 G3ZOD
100 M0DRK
95 G4LHI
85 G0EML
82 DK3UZ
60 2E0JCY
46 RW3AI
37 G0OTT
35 OE3KAB
20 DL1AH
15 DL1DXL
Many more received votes which got lost because
the nominees did not send in a log.
Scoring Procedures:
QSO Points: The calculation of the QSO score was done as follows:
A QSO is considered to have 4 basic elements: Call, RST, Name, QTH. A good
call is worth 0.4 points, the other elements are worth 0.2 points.
Missing, miscopied, or misspelled element lead to a minor reduction
of the score. The idea behind this is that an error free QSO is worth
more than a QSO with errors but that a QSO with errors is still worth
a lot more than no QSO at all.
The exchange of club names and club numbers or other info is not
relevant since it is trivial to look up these data and because double
membership may cause confusion. Additional info could create credit
for SWLs though, and some ops did faithfully repeat all data.
Penalties: No penalties were given. A small numbers of dupes
were just subtracted.
Club Scores: Each class winner has been assigned a percentage value
of 100. The other participants were assigned lower percentages
according to their QSO numbers compared to the winners' QSO
numbers. These percentage points were simply added on a per club
basis. This gives QRP clubs a fair chance to get good results and
fosters SWLing.
Most Readable Morse scores: Each nominee receives a score according
to the QSO number of the participants who nominated him. This gives
more weight to those who have run many QSOs which is fair enough
because they have a bigger pool of candidates to choose from. These
nominations are subjective, of course.
Please keep in mind that the use of elbugs is allowed. A correct
elbug CW is a good as can be, so please don't consider the closeness
to a computer fist to be the one and only criterion. This is not
a comparison of CW hand writings. If you want that, try the EuCW
Straight Key Day in June. Instead, choose nominees who are friendly,
patient, helpful to beginners, or who are able to have an interesting
talk and who are responsive to questions, or who show ham spirit
otherwise. It's rather a general beauty contest and you decide what
is beautiful. Some just voted for their friends and there is nothing
wrong with it. It's always good to have friends.
Some friends did even take the time to boost the scores of their
friends by band hopping. One participant mad 18 QSOs with the same
station distributed over five days and five different bands.
Notes:
Awards: I ask award winners whether they prefer an electronic award
or a paper award. The tradition imposes that the three best scores
win an award and that there is a single MRM award for the highest
ranking call who sent in a log. To be eligible for an award I set
a threshold of an average of 3 QSOs per day in B-QRP and 5 QSOs
per day in the A-QRO and SWL classes.
Soapbox (in chronological order):
M0DRK: thanks for this enjoyable activity
G3ZOD: not that many QSOs, but they were very enjoyable - quality
not quantity!
G4LHI: I thoroughly enjoyed it as always & a pleasure to meet up with old
& new friends again during the week, Its so nice to have good friendly CW
chats, with none of this 599/73 & away contest events, which I detest,
mostly PC to PC QSO's anyway hi.
PA3AFF: Was only QRV on 40m for short time.
G0OTT: My key for the week was my Kent brass pounder. I was active after
work in the evening and enjoyed my time with the activity, spending most
of my time calling around the Fists and QRP frequencies, much qrm from
digital at 7.035, did manage a few qso's. Must be upsetting for new
comers to be returned by 25+ wpm when calling QRS, this happened a few
times during the week! It was my first time active during this event,
look forward to next year.
HB9DEO: Die QRS-Woche machte mir viel Spass. Dank der "Frequency Activity
Centers" konnte ich wirklich QRS-Qsos fahren. Man konnte sich finden
wie nie zuvor. Die meisten Ops hatten Zeit fuer ein gemuetliches QSO.
UU7JF: Sorry, no match time for air working, but some two way straight
key qso was made
2E0DPH: I must say that I enjoyed the event very much even though work
commitments prevented me from giving it the full attention I would
have liked.
G0ILN: I thought to enter the EuCW QRS would be a good way to get back
to amateur radio. I really enjoyed my contacts and was surprised how
easily the qso format came back to me. My sending was in a lot of
cases automatic just like driving your car to work and not remembering
the journey!
Personal remarks:
IK2RMZ: I was active in the QRS week but I declared my log a checklog
and I am not eligible to receive MRM points. However, I added my QSO
number to the CW club of my choice and I voted in the MRM.
My votes went to one who showed so much ham spirit to copy the
handwritten log of a friend to a PC, and to the one who had the highest
count of Reverse Beacon Spots - that's the one who spent most time
waiting for QRS QSOs I suppose.
My wish for the future: Come back next year, please. It was fun.
Next time, please include both RSTs... :-)
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