(Araucaria) RESULTS WW IRON HAM CONTEST 2012

Quarta Janeiro 30 16:56:53 BRST 2013

RESULTS OF THE FIRST EDITION

WORLD WIDE IRON HAM  CONTEST 2012

We are pleased to announce the final results of our WW IRON HAM CONTEST ADXG first edition 2012.

We have the firm commitment to   annually reduce the time for the announcement of the final results of our contest. This year accordingly with our initial schedule we are showing the final results 30 days after the contest end.

We would like to emphasize that this achievement has been possible thanks to the use of  a extremely fast and accurate log checking software developed by our friend  UA4WLI, also developer of the TR4W contest log among several other SWs.

This is our first WWIH edition and we are glad to see a considerable number of hams all over the world showing there abilities on three modes operation, CW, PHONE and RTTY. We express our best thanks for the important support of all participants.

Being the first edition a quite big number of hams made a low number of contacts and our check log program validate only QSOs that appears correctly on three or more logs submitted within 72 hours after the contest end.

Accordingly with our philosophy all received logs are going to be open to all participants, as final results and UBN log checking results. All those information are going to be available on our WEB page within 10 days from this announcement.

http://www.araucariadx.com <http://www.araucariadx.com/>       and    http://www.ironham.com.br <http://www.ironham.com.br/> 

Our WWIH contest has only two categories, SOAB, M2AB, both all modes.

The winners:

SOAB - top 15

claimed

final

1

HG7T

265458

19108

2

PR2X

196342

15336

3

ZV2K

29970

6345

4

DJ6QT

77964

5940

5

SV2BFN

26664

2888

6

XE2B

5950

1932

7

DG0KS

2380

1904

8

PY7ZY

9328

1260

9

PP1CZ

3424

882

10

PY4XX

1625

855

11

PY7AHA

1890

851

12

PY2KC

8976

360

13

K6GHA

2139

315

14

NX8G/5

465

242

15

OH2LU

276

210

M2AB - TOP 4

claimed

final

1

PT5T

493867

47726

2

NP4Z

767349

7304

3

M0CFW

308

308

4

PS2T

1690

48

Continental Winners SOAB

EUROPE

HG7T

19108

S.AMERICA

PR2X

15336

N.AMERICA

XE2B

1932

ASIA

VU2UR

88

OCEANIA

Not sufficient QSOs

AFRICA

Not sufficient QSOs

Continental Winners M2AB

EUROPE

M0CFW

308

S.AMERICA

PT5T

47726

N.AMERICA

NP4Z

7304

Trophies:

Champion SOAB  HG7T  & prize

Champion M2AB PT5T  prize for  NP4Z

Plaques:

Europe SOAB-DJ6QT -second highest score- The winner HG7T will receive the Trophy

S.America SOAB -PR2X

N.America SOAB - XE2B

Asia SOAB - VU2UR

Europe M2AB - M0CFW

S.America M2AB - PS2T

Certificates: Accordingly the rules

Detailed participant scores will be available on our web page  http://www.araucariadx.com <http://www.araucariadx.com/> 

http://www.ironham.com.br <http://www.ironham.com.br/>  

Note:  Being the first edition of the WWIH contest, it is natural to observe,  a considerable reduction of the claim score in consequence of a big number of participants  with a low number of QSOs. The majority of those participants decided not to send their logs within the 72 hours limit. So the log checking program cut off all QSOs not correctly showed  minimum of three times in the received logs.

The participant with the biggest number of contacts  (1449 QSOs) NP4Z, made a different interpretation of the rules using the two stations M2AB on different modes at the same time. Accordingly with the rules both stations should be on the same mode even if they are on different bands. Because of that NP4Z´s final score was drastically reduced. 

The Contest Committee considered that the text of the rules could give the reader a different interpretation and there is no doubt that the participant was transparent and honest on his log.

The Contest Committee contacted the winner PT5T and the operators agreed that the prize established on the rules for the M2AB winner should be given to NP4Z for his fantastic performance .

For the next year we will re-wording the text  in a more clear way.

Comments - Contest Organizers:

We are glad to see that more than 2900 callsigns representing 123  DXCC entities appeared on the logs received. It is much more than what we expected  for the first year. 

Thanks you all for supporting  WWIH.

We hope to see you next year.

___________________________________

PY5EG - Contest Committee Chairman

ATILANO DE OMS 
PP5EG - PY5EG - PY2OMS
ZW5B, PS2T, PT5T 
ARAUCARIA DX GROUP 

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