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Badges?
Yes, we need stinkin' badges!
Don't show up at your next hamfest or contesting event NEKKED!
Arizona Outlaws Contest Club badges now available from Badgeman in Tucson!
Get your own dang badge for $9.91, which includes direct shipping to your hideout; or get two badges with shipping for $17.32.
Use Badgeman's online order form, and enter "Arizona Outlaws Contest Club" as the "Company Name" in Part One of the form, and your name and call sign in the "Employee Name" field in Part Two.
http://www.hornucopia.com/3830score/
Don't forget to add
ARIZONA OUTLAWS CONTEST CLUB on your Cabrillo File and 3830 Submissions
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Major Arizona Outlaws Contest Club Accomplishments
2009 ARRL Sweepstakes - #5 in USA for Medium Club category - Over 3.1M points
2009 ARRL 10M Contest - #4 in USA for Medium Club category - Over 646K points
2009 CQWW DX Contests - #14 in USA
2010 ARRL DX Contests - #11 in USA, Unlimited Club Category, Over 13 Million points
2010 CQWW 160 Contests - #5 in USA - Over 4 million points
2010 ARRL Sweepstakes - #6 in USA Medium Club category (44 entries) - Nearly 2.8M points
2010 CQWW DX Contests - #6 in USA, Over 59M claimed points and new 7th Area Club Record
2010 ARRL 10M Contest - #2 in USA for Medium Club category - Over 3 Million points
2011 CQWW 160 Contests – #5 in USA , 13th in World - Over 4.9M claimed points
2011 ARRL DX Contests – 12th in USA (77 clubs)-Over 27M points (79 entries!). 12th of 77 Clubs
2011 CQWPX Contests – Nearly 34 Million claimed points (56 entries)
2011 ARRL June VHF QSO Party – 10th in USA - Over 842K points
2011 CQWW RTTY Contest – 23 entries and over 8.5 Million points claimed score
2011 CQWW DX Contests - Over 74M points claimed - New 7th Area Club Record
2011 ARRL Sweepstakes - Over 3.3M claimed points
2011 ARRL 10 Meter Contest - Over 14M claimed points
2012 NAQP Teams for CW and SSB – Both the AOCC Bad Boys (CW) and AOCC Big Guns claim #1 USA Team position
Dateline: The K8IA/N7RQ/N7AT Outlaw Hideout,
Somewhere in Arizona, February 5, 2012
ARIZONA OUTLAWS TO BE W1AW/7 IN 2012 IARU HF CHAMPIONSHIP
The Arizona Outlaws Contest Club has been selected to be the ARRL HQ station for the 2012 IARU HF Championship, July 14-15, 2012.
We will sign W1AW/7 from as many as 12 different club member stations. All members will have an opportunity to operate.
We now have completed our 12 station selections (six bands / two
modes each band).
AOCC STATION SELECTIONS FOR W1AW/7 in 2012 IARU HF CHAMPIONSHIP
10M CW – N7CW
10M SSB – K7KR
15M CW – AB7E and W8AEF (time share)
15M SSB – N7DD
20M CW – KO7AA
20M SSB – K7FA
40CW – N6SS
40SSB – N7RT
80CW – AA7A
80 SSB – K8BN
160 CW – N5IA/Safford AZ
160 SSB – N6VR
More info will be released soon!
Plan on supporting the Arizona Outlaws by your operating presence at one or more of the selected stations.
Ken W8MJ operates the fine two-position Multiop at the MI W8RA QTH in CQWW 160 CW
ARRL RTTY ROUNDUP KICKS OFF 2012 CONTEST SEASON
Twenty-three Arizona Outlaws participated in the 2012 ARRL RTTY Roundup, scoring 1,258,702 points. AOCC Category Leaders are shown below:
2012 ARRL RTTY ROUNDUP AOCC Category Winners
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| Call | Category |
QSOs |
States/Prov |
Countries |
Hrs |
Score |
| K8IA (+packet) | MultiOp HP |
1552 |
55 |
59 |
21 |
176,928 |
| W9CF (+ N7LR, KE7TEK) | MultiOp LP |
16 |
11 |
0 |
na |
176 |
| K6LL | SO HP |
1953 |
57 |
61 |
24 |
230,454 |
| KB7Q (@ K7FA) | SO LP |
1470 |
56 |
51 |
24 |
157,290 |
| N6HI | SO QRP |
43 |
20 |
6 |
6 |
1,118 |
The full scores can be seen at the Club Scores/Archived Scores area of this website.
NORTH AMERICAN QSO PARTY (NAQP) CW and SSB CAUSES A MAJOR ARIZONA OUTLAW UPRISING
NAQP is mainly a team event where AOCC usually fields 4-5 five person teams. Our NAQP organizer, Dave K6LL, does careful work in allocating members to the teams. In the January NAQP CW and SSB events, something truly unusual took place.
For the first time in our brief club history, AOCC had two separate teams that are sitting at First Place USA in both contests, with impressive team claimed scores!
2012 January NAQP CW - Top USA Team |
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| AOCC Bad Boys | QSOs |
Mults |
Hrs |
Claimed Score |
| N2IC | 1447 |
270 |
10 |
390,690 |
| K8IA | 1058 |
233 |
10 |
246,514 |
| K6LL | 1002 |
239 |
10 |
239,478 |
| N7CW | 979 |
227 |
10 |
225,170 |
| KB7Q (at W7WW) | 975 |
209 |
10 |
203,775 |
AOCC Bad Boys = |
1,305,627 |
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2012 January NAQP SSB - Top USA Team |
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| AOCC Big Guns | QSOs |
Mults |
Hrs |
Claimed Score |
| K6LL | 1237 |
215 |
10 |
265,955 |
| AB7E | 1092 |
214 |
10 |
233,688 |
| W7WW | 1077 |
204 |
10 |
219,708 |
| WA7LNW | 1066 |
205 |
10 |
218,530 |
| N7AT(W2AJW) | 874 |
189 |
10 |
165,186 |
AOCC Big Guns = |
1,103,067 |
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Now only log checking is the final step to this being official! Way to go, you guys!
The other individual member scores, and team scores, can be seen on the Club Scores/Archived Scores area of the website.
Multi position Multiop for CQWW 160 CW at NI5T (N5BG). Simultaneous Run and S&P positions, over 20 receive antennas and lots of other great station innovations by N5IA and N5BG.
Front Row L to R: Sam N5FO, Steve N2IC, Tom K7FA / Rear (with tie)Supervising: Larry N5BG
DETERIORATING CONDITIONS MAKE CQWW 160 CW CONTEST A STRUGGLE
The past four years during CQWW 160 CW Contest have been generally strong propagation years, with a good amount of European stations available to work, as well as our usually decent Asian openings.
This year was a major turnaround with most of the big guns reporting much lower scores, on the order of 40%-50% lower than the previous year. Overall lower USA activity, very few workable European stations, and abbreviated Asian openings were the weekend’s rule.
Here’s a quick comparison of significant parameters of two of the club’s CQWW 160 CW multi-op stations as an illustration of the deteriorating conditions this year. One of these multi-op stations is a rather modestly equipped 160 station (N7AT), while the other is a serious 160 station effort (NI5T @ N5BG). Pay special attention to the Country and European totals this year! Ugh.
Comparison of two AOCC Multiops- CQWW 160 CW 2010 thru 2012 |
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Year |
Call |
Q's |
DXCC |
EU Q's |
JA Q's |
Score |
2010 |
NI5T |
1248 |
60 |
90 |
90 |
516K |
2010 |
N7AT |
1172 |
60 |
47 |
107 |
473K |
2011 |
NI5T |
1355 |
67 |
107 |
81 |
606K |
2011 |
N7AT |
1294 |
53 |
69 |
67 |
460K |
2012 |
NI5T |
1184 |
34 |
3 |
46 |
303K |
2012 |
N7AT |
1058 |
30 |
7 |
43 |
254K |
On the plus side, the Arizona Outlaws still had 34 entries totaling 2,521,433 points, great multi-op participation, and some truly good single op scores in all categories.
Category winners are as follows (also some honorable mention scores here, too):
2012 CQWW 160 CW Contest |
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Category Winners |
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| Call | Category |
QSOs |
States/Provinces |
Countries |
Hours |
Score |
| N7DD (N7DD W8TK) | MultiOp |
1111 |
58 |
38 |
na |
323,136 |
| WD5COV | SO HP |
867 |
57 |
31 |
24 |
225,720 |
| N6SS | SO(A) HP |
845 |
58 |
37 |
26 |
239,780 |
| N7IR | SO LP |
692 |
55 |
15 |
30 |
117,180 |
| NA6E (WT6P) | SO QRP |
38 |
15 |
1 |
2 |
1,264 |
Honorable Mention Scores |
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| W8RA (W8RA W8MJ) | MultiOp |
1232 |
58 |
40 |
31 |
309,778 |
| NI5T (N5IA N5BG K7IA N3KCJ K7FA N2IC N5FO KB5ZKE KK7YL) | MultiOp |
1184 |
59 |
34 |
33 |
303,831 |
| N7AT (K8IA KC7V) | MultiOp |
1058 |
59 |
30 |
30 |
254,807 |
| K7NU (WA2DFI@W7GNP) | SO HP |
909 |
58 |
17 |
28 |
175,425 |
| W7RH | SO LP |
585 |
55 |
17 |
na |
110,664 |
NM Arizona Outlaws Sam N5FO and Steve N2IC (with guest NM5SD) plan their next caper with AOCC BOD dudes John K7WP, Mike KC7V and Bob K8IA in Chandler, AZ.
CONTESTER EDUCATION
There are many sources you can use to obtain a wealth of contester information. The two we’d like to feature this month are those presented by “old guard” contest clubs, Potomac Valley Radio Club (PVRC) and the Northern California Contest Club (NCCC).
PVRC has sponsored many fine, contest-focused webinars the last several years. Fortunately, they have always recorded them and they are available for download here: http://www.pvrc.org/webinar/webinars.htm .
NCCC has a great set of recorded contest related videos as well. Check out this link: http://www.nccc.cc/webinars.html .
Andy KK7AC operates from his Apache County QTH in last year's 7QP.
IMPORTANT: CONTEST DATES Feb 1 – Mar 4, 2012– AOCC Ladder Events
AOCC NET
Our infinitely able Net-dude/Outlaw, Steve AA7V (ex-KN5H), has worked hard to organize a 75m net for our members! Join us on 3733 each Wednesday night at 7pm MST (0200Z Thursday). Steve is the usual NCS, but other Outlaws will be asked to take the helm as well. Lately, Hank K7HP has stepped up to help out regularly.
Non-members are always welcome.
The Net is mp3-recorded and posted to N7MAL’s website every week. A link to Mal’s site is to the left of this column: “Wednesday Night Net Recordings”. Join In on the Net.
NEW MEMBERS
One new Arizona Outlaw was bushwhacked into joining this past month. We now have 160 members. What a ruckus we can make! A wild Outlaw welcome to:
Chuck K7QO of Peoria, AZ
Arizona Outlaws Gene KB7Q, Bob K8IA, Dave K6LL and Dave W7WW stirrin' up trouble in Yuma.
73, Outlaw Bob K8IA
“There’s a ruckus brewing out there!”
Go saddle up and git on the air!
Contest Tips for Little Pistols & Cap Guns by Outlaw John K7WP
(click image above to read)
Simple Multi-op Contesting by Outlaw Bob K8IA
(click image above to read)
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Outlaw Sandy Farley N7RQ, Webmistress
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