CONGRATULATIONS to the NCC Members who participated in this weekend’s ARRL DX CW Contest! Several NCC members shared scores below.

Please join me in congratulating TEAM K3LR for achieving a New U.S. Record High Score!!!!!

Call: NJ3K

 Band  QSOs  Pts  Cty  Pt/Q
  1.8       45      135   38   3.0
  3.5       90     270   55   3.0
    7       231     693   72   3.0
  14      423    1269   97   3.0
  21       511    1533  104  3.0
  28      358   1074   97   3.0
 Total 1658  4974  463  3.0
Score: 2,302,962

Call: K8CX
Operator(s): K8CX
Station: K8CX

Class: SOUSB20 HP
QTH: OH
Operating Time (hrs): 35

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
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  160:           
   80:           
   40:           
   20: 2030   122
   15:           
   10:           
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Total: 2030   122  Total Score = 742,980
Club: North Coast Contesters

Call: WW3S
SOUSB-15

Thank you for sharing Jim Pyle, AA8OY & Ken Kontor, W8KEN!

Great job in the 160m CW Contest Jim, W8WTS!

Congratulations NCC Sprint Contest Team Ops!

Congratulations to all of the NCC Members and their awesome 160m scores!

Bryan Bydal, W5MX was the winner of the NCC sponsored ARRL DX CW 2022 Contest Plaque.

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This year, NCC members have been hitting the contests hard and submitting logs showing their best efforts!

Great job participating and submitting logs on behalf of NCC:

2023 ARRL International DX Phone Contest

• K3LR      Multi Op, Multi Transmitter, HP
• K8AZ      Multi Op, Single Transmitter, HP
• N2WK    Single Op Unlimited, HP
• WW3S    Single Op Unlimited, HP
• W8CZN  Single Op Unlimited, HP, 10m
• K8LY       Single Op Unlimited, LP
• K8ZT       Single Op Unlimited, QRP

2023 ARRL International DX CW Contest

• K3LR      Multi Op, Multitransmitter
• K8AZ      Multi Op, Single Transmitter, HP
• W2FU      Multi Op, Two Transmitter
• K8CX      Single Op Unlimited, HP
• N2WK   Single Op Unlimited, HP
• N8NB    Single Op Unlimited, HP
• N8TR      Single Op Unlimited, HP
• NJ3K      Single Op Unlimited, LP
• K8LY       Single Op Unlimited, LP
• K8RR      Single Op Unlimited, LP
• K8ZT      Single Op Unlimited, QRP
• W1NN   Single Op, LP
• W8WTS   Single Op Unlimited, LP 80m
• WW3S     Single Op Unlimited, HP 15m

17 members submitted scores for the CW and SSB weekends in the 2020 ARRL International DX Contest, amassing a score of 21.5 million points, more than enough to secure another gavel for the club in the Medium club competition.  The club placing second was the Central Texas DX & Contest Club, which had 40 entries.  Congratulations NCC!

Unfortunately, the rules of the club competition do not allow K3LR’s scores to be counted, because more than half of Tim’s operators live outside the club territory.  If not for this rule, our club score would have been considerably larger.

Leading off the high scorers in the CW weekend for the club was W2FU’s first place USA/VE Multi2 score of 6.5 million points.  Nice job Jeff and crew.  The next-largest score was that of K8AZ.  Tom’s ops produced 5.5 million points and placed fourth in the M@ category, not far behind the second and third place stations.  Single ops K8CX (#1 in Ohio in the SO Unlimited HP category), WW3S and N8TR also contributed large scores for the club on the CW weekend.  N2WK, K8LY, NJ3K, K8ZT, W8WTS and K8RR also made smaller contributions.

In the SSB weekend, K8AZ’s ops managed a second-place US finish in the M2 category to account for the largest contribution for the club.  K8ZT, who came in first in the country in the SO unlimited QRP category, WW3S, K8LY, K8CX and WZ8P also contributed scores. 

Aside from the club competition, the K3LR superstation racked up another USA/VE win and another runner-up score in the Multi-multi category in the 2020 ARRL International DX Contest.  Tim’s ops dominated the action in the SSB weekend, coming in well ahead of their perennial Maryland rival W3LPL.  K3LR’s final score was 7.3 million points, with 4,989 QSOs and 495 mults versus a score of 6.3 million (4,476 and 477) for W3LPL.  In the CW weekend, it was a real squeaker but ‘LPL edged out the K3LR ops by a mere 43,397 points (9,706,275 versus 9,662,778).  What a heartbreaker!  Both W3LPL and K3LR amassed exactly the same number of mults (537), but ‘LPL managed a mere 50 more contacts!

W1NN, operating 7J1AAI at JH1GTV in Tokyo, managed a first place finish in the single band 40 meter category in Japan on the CW weekend with 678 contacts and 53 sections.  This was also the top score in Asia but just 16^th in the world.  The Europeans have a significant advantage over Asian stations in this contest.

NCC member and creator of the Ham Gallery Tom Roscoe, K8CX, was recently inducted into the CQ Amateur Radio Hall of Fame for his many contributions to the hobby of amateur radio over the years.  Tom’s principle work has been his Ham Gallery, where he has posted thousands of pictures of contesters at the Dayton Hamvention, as well as a huge number of DX audio clips and QSL cards.  Tom became the 333^rd inductee to this prestigious list of accomplished amateurs.  NCC vice-president Tim Duffy, K3LR interviewed Tom on the DX Engineering weekly YouTube broadcast on June 12, 2020.  You can see this interesting interview with Tim at  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTaaNjv2QBg

Congratulations and thanks for your hard work over the years, Tom!