W1AW/5 LA - an overview by K5ER First part, June 4-10 Second part, Nov 26-Dec 2

ARRL Project Goals Provide a “One of a Kind”, year long operating event Encourage more “On Air” activity Allow each state to use W1AW/x In conjunction w/ 100th anniversary of ARRL

Description Every ARRL member and official has point value Each W1AW/x station has a value Year long points gathering competition Opportunity for WAS - W1AW multi band - multi mode Visit FOR MORE INFO...

Planning Guidance from ARRL - Get on - Make Q’s - Have Fun! Need Spreadsheet for schedule / Operator list Need to coordinate stations / operators In a week, there are 168 hours x 10 bands=1680 x3 modes=5040 possible slots (+ Sat) Task seemed daunting - lots of slots to fill

Implementation/ Team Building Picked a modifiable spreadsheet for scheduling Contacted LCC members and others to encourage participation Contacted owners of “Large” stations who could host Multi-Ops, to allow more operators access to large antenna Dedicate several pages on N5LCC web site to this operation

Procedures Posted basic rules on what was allowed / needed Continued working to get more operators Most scheduling done via /phone editing schedule 4-5 times a day Need to have more scheduling done ahead of time This worked pretty good, but...

Schedule Opted to NOT let others see who our Ops were - had caused issues w/ other groups Web form for OTHERS, who only saw a slot was “Active” Web form for PARTICIPANTS, could see WHO was in the slots only ONE station per band/mode at a time “Split” very good for pile-up control

Our Team (week 1) AA5AU, AC5O, K1DW, K5ER, K5FNQ, K5SL K5TFH, KA5HCO, KA5M, KE5WB, KG5VK, KN5O, KR5R, KX2P, KZ5D, N5FH, N5HMH, N5JF, N5MEG, N5UXT, N5WE, N5ZVW, NA5G, W5BEK, W5LA, W5RGS, W5RY, W5TMP, W5WZ, W5XU, W5ZR, WA5KBH, WB5JHY, WM5H

Results I W5ZR scheduled CW operations WA5KBH scheduled Satellite Ops K5ER scheduled SSB / RTTY ops We had 34 operators active at 27 stations We logged 576 hours So how did we do??

Results II Band Activity 160 CW-16, SSB-81,RY-25 total CW-365, SSB-255, RY-153 total CW-1424-SSB-1540, RY-624 total 3, CW1248, RY-429 total 1, CW-3907, SSB-5576, RY/DIG-1606 total 11, CW-1665, SSB-1994, RY-772 total 4, CW-1987, SSB-1863, RY-855 total 4, CW-62, SSB-325, RY-399 total CW-367, SSB-371, RY-189 total 927 VHF/SAT CW-222, SSB/fm-353, RY-41 total 616

Results III We had 28,714 Raw Qso’s 12,358 SSB, 11,263 CW and 5,093 RTTY Highest % of RTTY so far We had 174 Sat Qso’s (2nd highest so far) Most active on Sat - N5JF w/ 79 Most active on CW - W5ZR w/ 2650 Most active RTTY - AA5AU w/ 2556 Most active on SSB - W5WZ w/ 4177

Observations Log submission fairly quick, but only abt 2/3 followed instructions rec’d.adi,.log and.txt files, & one w1aw-5.log - correct is _ _.adi N3FJP does NOT log Sat Qso’s correctly - had to edit every one West coast/JA wants more low band activity East coast/EU wanrts more WARC band activity Only ONE gripe , dozens “Thank You’s” Need better scheduling - multiple bands at once Need more operators!

WEEK II Nov 26-Dec 2 Need activity on multiple bands at once Easier Scheduling W5WZ found and hosted interactive spreadsheet each participant scheduled their own slots, on the fly

Our Team (week 2) AA5AU, AC5O, AE5V, AE5VB, K5ER, K5RUS, K5SL K5TFH, K5UQ, KA5HCO, KA5M, KC5WA, KD5DW, KF5LOQ, KG5VK, KI5EE, KR5R, KZ5D, N5FH, N5GP, N5MEG, N5VU, NA5G, NA5Q, W5LA, W5RGS, W5SUM, W5TMP, W5WZ, W5ZR, WA5KBH, WB5JHY, WM5H

Results I Everyone scheduled own slots - FAR better More band changes, less wasted time We had 33 operators active at 27 stations We logged 477 hours So how did we do??

Results II Band Activity 160 total 733 (+611) 80 total 1223 (+450) 40 total 4778 (+1190) 30 total 1211 (-466) 20 total 6208 (-4881) 17 total 3851 (-580) 15 total 3477 (-1231) 12 total 2764 (+1978) 10 total 2803 (+1881) VHF/SAT total 62 (-554)

Results III We had 27,110 Raw Qso’s SSB, 6819 CW and 3896 RTTY So how does this compare??

Results IV Mode - Week1 - Week 2 - result SSB UP 4037 CW Down 4444 Dig - 5, Down 1197 Overall, week 2 was down 1604 qso’s

Results V Week ,714 Raw Qso’s worked 576 hrs = 49.85/hr Week ,110 Raw Qso’s worked 477 hrs = 56.84/hr for comparison, 56.84/hr times 48 hours (standard DX contest) = 2,728 - Very respectable Our top op hit 420/hour for short period!

Results VI Most active on Sat - WA5KBH w/ 63 Most active on CW - W5LA w/ 3061 Most active RTTY - AA5AU w/ 2264 Most active on SSB - W5WZ w/ 6155 Top RTTY both wks - AA5AU Top SSB both wks - W5WZ - 10,332

W1AW/5 LA W1AW/5 LA, 2 week total - 55,824 Overall W1AW/x made over 3.5 million QSO’s, program deemed huge success Thanks to all who participated. Questions?