A little summary from your new club Contest Manager of the CTRI CG-focused effort in the recent ARRL 10 Meter contest of December 2011 follows. We had record setting participation and the best total score ever submitted for this event for our individual club by big margins…great job by the more than 15 club participants — it was indeed a team effort!
Claimed scores from the 15 logs submitted in 2011 (double our previous best of logs submitted back in 2003) totaled about 2.69M pts (well more than double our previous group best of 1.14M pts from 2002). Well done to John W1AN and Matt WE1H who were part of the 2002 AND 2011 efforts. Of course, log checking must occur at ARRL HQ but the club’s final effort in the 2011 10M Contest will certainly be historic. I expect results to be published in late fall of 2012.
ARRL Affiliated Club Competition records dating as far back as 1995 were found for the 10 M Contest. CTRI CG first formally appeared in 2002, placing 3rd in the “Local Club” category. They won 1st place as a “Local Club” in 2003 and were awarded the “Wooden Gavel” with 719K pts as the solar cycle had begun its downturn. Due to larger membership these days we typically now compete in the very competitive “Medium Club” size category.
The ARRL Contest Branch now reports with the log submission deadline complete almost 5300 total logs submitted for the 2011 10M event…**the most logs EVER submitted for ANY ARRL Contest**!! So, participation was outstanding and conditions were very good. But as the solar cycle continues to swing upward, as our own KI1G said “…wait ’til next year!”. Things should be even more fun in December 2012 as the solar flux and sunspot numbers are likely near their peak…as contesters and DXers we can only hope.
We certainly have the opportunity to put up big numbers again and challenge our expected record-setting 2011 New England QSO Party (NEQP) club score with all our 1×1 callsigns on-air during the 2012 running of the NEQP this May. That should be alot of fun as well!
Good luck and hope to see you in an upcoming contest…
73, Bill W1WBB
