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ARRL Centennial QSO Party 2014

ARRL Centennial

The Centennial QSO Party was held in 2014 to celebrate the ARRL 100th anniversary. It began on January 1st, 2014 with each of the 50 states being activated twice throughout the whole year with W1AW Portable activities plus activities from W1AW/KG4, W1AW/KH0, W1AW/KH2, W1AW/KH8, W1AW/KP2 and W1AW/KP4. At the end of the year an incredible total number of 3.4 million QSOs was achieved by all the W1AW Portables. This was a also a great and unique chance to work and complete different WAS awards.

W1AW WAS

The challenge fascinated me. At the end of the year I had confirmed 1750 W1AW Portables in LoTW and had worked 961 states on 10 bands and CW/Phone/Digital, all only with W1AW Portables.

WAS worked only with W1AW Portables
W1AW Band CW Digital Phone not worked
160m 7 7      
80m 31 31      
40m 49 48 33 40 UT - CW: CO UT
30m 50 50 45    
20m 50 50 50 50  
17m 50 50 47 50 RTTY: NV UT WY
15m 50 50 50 49 SSB: HI
12m 50 50 44 46  
10m 47 43 37 40 AK HI SD
6m 1 0 0 1  
961   379 306 276  

The high bands were in pretty good shape throughout the year. I missed W1AW/7 in Utah for a single-band WAS on 40m only with W1AW Portables but could reach all 50 states with W1AW on 30m through 12m. There was no propagation to AK, HI and SD on 10m when these states were on the schedule. W1AW/1 Rhode Island was the only 6m contact during a year with very poor propagation on Six Meters to the US.

ARRL Centennial Leader Boards

I've spent every day on the radio in the year 2014 to collect W1AW Portables, the W100AW and W1HQ Stations and to take part in the Centennial Points Challenge. The results are published in the ARRL Centennial Leader Boards.

W1AW Portable Stations Leader Board

It was a head to head race with YV5GRB and ON4CD but I finally managed to be the station who worked most W1AW's outside of North America.

Rank Call Sign QSOs Place
1 K5WAF 2621 #1 US
2 WB4OSS 2498 #2 US
3 N8PR 2452 #3 US
... ... ... ...
17 VE7VQ 2129 #1 outside US
59 KP4P 1760 #2 outside US
63 DF3CB 1750 #3 outside US
86 JF2MBF 1661 #1 Japan
92 ON4CD 1644 #2 Europe
115 VE4EAR 1546 #2 Canada
127 YV5GRB 1509 #1 South America

W100AW Leader Board

I achieved the highest rank outside of the U.S. with 35 different band/mode W100AW QSOs.

Rank Call Sign QSOs Place
1 W2OR 62 #1 US
2 K1PL 56 #2 US
2 N4SC 56 #2 US
4 W1RM 52 #3 US
... ... ... ...
15 DF3CB 35 #1 outside US
42 HK3CW 30 #1 South America
42 VE4YU 30 #1 Canada
76 ON4CD 26 #2 Europe

W1HQ Leader Board

SP1JRF beat me with W1HQ on the last day, Dec 31, 2014 :-)

Rank Call Sign QSOs Place
1 KX9X 32 #1 US
2 W1AW/4 28 #2 US
3 W1AW/7 23 #3 US
... ... ... ...
21 SP1JRF 10 #1 outside US
24 DF3CB 9 #2 outside US
24 HK3TY 9  
33 G4CCZ 7 #3 outside US
33 HK3CW 7  
33 ON4CD 7  

Centennial Points Challenge Leader Board Germany

Rank Call Sign Points QSOs Category
110 DL1A 78354 11123 Multi OP
374 DF3CB 48086 4168 Single OP
389 DL1NEO 47166 6147 Single OP
493 DH8BQA 42423 6270 Single OP
639 DL2CC 36408 5350 Single OP

Some W1AW Audio Recordings

W1AW/KH6 20m CW Aurora flutter 2014-12-21 18:46
W1AW/1 ME 15m SSB operated by K1DG 2014-12-03 14:02
W1AW/9 IL 17m CW It's Wednesday! 2014-12-03 14:13
W1AW/4 FL 20m SSB with our beloved Italian friends 2014-11-23 19.24
W1AW/KL7 17m CW operated by NN1N 2014-10-05 10:20
W1AW/KL7 20m CW operated by NN1N 2014-10-03 10:45
W1AW/0 CO 12m CW operated by AD1C 2014-09-13 15:33

Are you ready for the Bicentennial 2114?

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