Congratulations are in order for the fantastic performance of the W2FU team in the recent NAQP CW.  Based on claimed scores, Jeff’s ops took back the number one spot in the M2 competition after losing it to the guys at K5RM in January 2019.  Last year K5RM ended up with 2,398 contacts, nearly 200 more than the W2FU guys.  Jeff’s ops found a couple more multipliers (267 vs. 263) but that was not enough to overcome the Arkansas-based K5RM lead.  This year, W2FU is still slightly behind on the Q count (2,131 vs 2,168) but 16 extra mults puts them ahead by 554,060 to 533,328 (claimed).  Here are their numbers and a list of operators from 3830:

Call: W2FU

Operator(s): KØSM K2UA N2ZN NW2K W2FU

Station: W2FU

Class: M/2 LP

QTH: WNY

Operating Time (hrs): 12

Location: USA

Summary:   Compare Scores

Band   QSOs    Mults

160:   312    49

80:     703    61

40:     650    62

20:     372    59

15:     93      28

10:     1        1

Total:          2131 260    Total Score           554,060

On another subject, here are the claimed scores from the four NCC/MRRC teams we put together for this year:

NCC/MRRC Team 1

NA8V         197,607

W1NN        164,934

K3UA         140,976

N8AA         82,446

KN8CWO(AF8A)          58,824

Team Total:          644,787

NCC/MRRC Team 2

K8BKM      108,702

K9NW        42,224

N8FYL       33,761

K8GT         18,531

Team Total:          203,218

NCC/MRRC Team 3

N8EA         65,540

AB8OU      20,064

NF8M         15,470

N8SBE       14,544

Team Total:          115,618

NCC/MRRC Team 4

KC8J          17,630

W8RU        11,560

W8WTS     8,556

W8KNO     8,192

Team Total:          45,938

Our best team looks to be in 14th place this year.  Last January, our top team was in 13th place.  We have some formidable competition from the west, southwest and deep south, but we have made the top ten before and I’m sure we can do it again.