W1SYE in ARRL CW DX Contest

Hoping to complete DXCC on behalf of the club, Bob, WB4SON, participated as W1SYE during this past weekend’ ARRL CW DX Contest.  As weekends are busy for everybody, limited time was available, perhaps a total of 10 hours on Saturday and Sunday (out of the full 48 hour period).

W1SYE worked a total of 75 countries, selecting those that are active in LotW to increase the odds of obtaining confirmations that way.  The contest log was uploaded to LotW this morning, and W1SYE’s confirmed DXCC count is now up to 40 countries!

In the DX world, Hawaii and Alaska count as separate countries.  Both were worked during this contest, so if confirmations arrive we will increase our WAS standings — Currently we need confirmation for working Alaska, Hawaii, and Montana to complete WAS.

W1SYE DXCC Count

Since the log was uploaded about 12 hours after the end of the contest, and logs aren’t due until March 22nd, getting 14 confirmations right off the bat was pretty amazing.  More are sure to come in the weeks and months ahead.

The ARRL Phone DX Contest is coming in two weeks, March 5-6.  Perhaps a club member might like to operate as W1SYE during that contest to bring us closer to obtaining DXCC?

WFD Log Added to LotW

The 789 contacts from the Winter Field Day event have been uploaded to the W1SYE Logbook of the World (LotW) database.

With that update, we now have 47 confirmed states (still need Alaska, Hawaii and Montana), and 26 confirmed countries.

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Meeting: Monday Feb 8, 7 PM KVH

We will be having our regular NCRC meeting at KVH this coming Monday at 7 PM.

In addition to our usual business items, the will be a discussion on the very successful Winter Field Day activation at the end of January, as well as voting on a new member applicant (Alan, KB1DJ). After the regular meeting an excellent video on the K1N Navassa Island DXpedition will be shown.

Please don’t forget that dues are due. At this point 51 of 84 members have paid. You can check the member roster to see if you have paid — look on the 2016 column on the right — if you see “2016” by your name, then you’ve paid your dues, otherwise we don’t have a record that you’ve paid. Please contact Ted, W1GRI, if you have any dues questions. And you can pay online by clicking on the “Pay Dues or Donate” tab.

Hope to see you Monday night!

W1SYE WAS and DXCC Standings

Past paper logs from various summer activations were entered into a ACL Database by Jim, KA1ZOU, and entered by our QSL Manager, Chuck, N1CKT into Logbook of the World (LotW).  At this moment in time, W1SYE has 46 confirmed states, and 25 confirmed countries in LotW.  2,934 contact have been entered so far, resulting in 840 confirmed contacts.

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What states are we missing?  Alaska, Hawaii, Maine, and Montana.

What countries do we already have confirmed?  A smattering from the Caribbean and Europe, and the official list can be found by clicking: W1SYE LOTW DXCC 25 Confirmed

A nice goal for the summer would be to obtain Worked All States (WAS) andd DX Century Club (DXCC) status for the club.

Thanks to all the hard working activators too!