2012 Station Test

The WRTC2014 organizers conducted a first test of volunteers, equipment, and sites during the IARU HF Championship 2012. Beam team captains collected gear from the storage point and fanned out to set up 13 identical stations. Site teams attended each location and set up the tent and kept the generators running. Teams of operators brought their own equipment and kept the stations on air for the full 24 hours.

Participants took pictures throughout the weekend.  Follow the links below to share the experience and get a taste of what WRTC2014 may be like.

K1RX takes you on a photo tour of some of the WRTC test stations.
http://photobucket.com/2012test_k1rx

Randy, K5ZD, shares his visit to 7 WRTC test sites.
http://photobucket.com/2012test_k5zd

Want to experience what it was like to be part of a WRTC Beam Team? Allen, N2KW, provides the photos that let you live the dream.
http://photobucket.com/2012test_n2kw

Jay, W1UJ, shares his photos of station setup and operation at the WDC site in Wrentham.
http://w1uj.net/wrtc-test2012/

Will, K6ND, was involved in setting up two sites.
http://photobucket.com/2012test_k6nd

Rich, K1CC, has prepared photos and writeup of his experience operating one of the WRTC test stations.
http://konecc.wix.com/2012-wrtc-k1zd

Gerry, W1VE, wrote a nice story about operating a WRTC test station and battling the heat.
http://www.w1ve.com/?p=1

Les, N1SV, provides his photos of the weekend.
http://home.comcast.net/~lespeters/yccc/WRTC2014_2012/WRTC2012_2012.htm

Tom, K1KI, the man responsible for finding WRTC station sites, shares his photos from the WRTC station test.
http://photobucket.com/2012test_K1KI 

Local radio clubs are key to future success of WRTC2014. Here are some reports about the 2012 Station Test from club newsletters.

We will be doing another practice in 2013 with even more stations. The big event is 2014 when there will be 59 stations and teams of operators going for the honor of WRTC Champion!  If you want to help, visit the volunteer page and sign up.

 

Station Test Hunters

To help generate more activity and data, WRTC2014 offered awards to encourage people to work the test stations. The awards were:

  • A WRTC T-shirt will be awarded to the 5 callsigns (outside W1) that work the WRTC test stations on the most band-modes.
  • A WRTC T-shirt will be awarded to the 3 callsigns outside North America that work the WRTC test stations on the most band-modes.
  • Everyone who works the WRTC test stations on 4 or more band-modes will be entered into a drawing to win a WRTC mouse pad or hat. Ten winners will be drawn.

Top Ten non-W1 (top 5 win T-shirts)

N5DX       52
N2IC       47
K0EJ       45
N8OO       44
W4IX       44
K5KG       43
NR3X       43
W4NZ       41
WW4LL      41
NP4Z       40
WD4AHZ     40

Top Three non-NA

EI/W5GN    42
DJ2YA      41
CR6K       38

1189 stations worked WRTC stations on at least 4 band-modes!

Drawing Winners

 K6JAT
 N4ZI
 W5KI
 W5WMU
 KH6LC
 K0PK
 FP/KV1J
 HK3TU
 E720RS
 AI3G

Some other stats just for fun.

Top 5 Zone 6

 N9RV     37
 NK7U     33
 K6NA     28
 W6SX     28
 N6TV     27
 W6NV     27
 W7CT     27

Top Five W1

 K1LZ     41
 NN1N     41
 WA1Z     37
 K0DQ     36
 N1YX     35

Top Ten HQ

 NU1AW/9  88
 W1AW/7   83
 TM0HQ    80
 OL2HQ    79
 DA0HQ    73
 IOxHQ    72
 GO2HQ    70
 S50HQ    67
 YT0HQ    64
 9A20HQ   58
 SN0HQ    55

Top WRTC (working other WRTC)

 K1ZD     50
 W1UJ     44
 N9NB     43
 W1UE     43
 W1MJ     42
 W1MA     41
 WB1Z     39
 K1GQ     37
 K1RQ     32
 W1HH     30
 W1SJ     29
 N2KW     27
 NI1L     17

WRTC Test Stations

The test stations made 18,373 QSOs (including dupes). 5949 are from Zone 8 (2 pts), 4199 are from other NA zones (3 pts), 2053 are from HQ stations (2 pts), and 6172 are 5-pointers, mostly Europe (less than 10 JA QSOs).

Claimed Scores before Checking (using WRTC2014 scoring rules)

Call Category Score QSOs CW SSB Cty HQ
K1ZD 2O2R 2,249,744 1,798 1361 437 215 164
W1UE 2O2R 2,183,797 1,846 1507 339 213 146
W1UJ 2O2R 2,010,396 1,976 1540 436 186 132
N9NB 2O2R 1,999,275 1,757 1393 364 203 142
K1RQ 2O2R 1,439,360 1,473 1350 122 168 99
WB1Z 2O2R 1,180,980 1,407 999 408 150 110
W1MJ 2O2R 1,012,254 1,508 1115 393 134 89
W1SJ 2O2R 791,252 1,373 789 584 118 78
W1HH MS 954,827 1,145 863 282 143 118
K1GQ MS 951,936 1,279 1271 8 145 82
NI1L MS 757,253 917 700 217 137 107
W1MA MS 576,241 847 666 181 126 85
N2KW SO 665,632 833 596 237 136 108
 Totals 18,159 14,150 4,008 2,074 1,460

Excel file with complete results. WRTC_Station_Test_2012_Results

Call Operators
K1GQ + W2RU K1AR
K1RQ + K1IR KB1W NJ1F W1VE
K1ZD K1ZZ KA1ZD K1CC
N2KW
N9NB + N9NC K5GO
NI1L + K5ZD K1KI
W1HH N1IW WO1N W1STT
W1MA + K1RX K5ZD N1TQ
W1MJ + K1IB K9HI N1SV NB1N
W1SJ + KM1P
W1UE + W1KM
W1UJ + N1WK K1EBY KB1H NB1U NR1X
WB1Z W1MSW AA1YW KK1W W3SM W1EQO K5ZD K1DNX KX1X

Online Logs

K1GQ
K1RQ
K1ZD
N2KW
N9NB
NI1L
W1HH
W1MA
W1MJ
W1SJ
W1UE
W1UJ
WB1Z
All Logs in zip file