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2011 — The Final Results:
We are pleased to bring you the official results of the 2011 CQ-WE Contest:
Location Awards
Most Participants AT&T Middletown MT
High Top-5 Score AT&T Middletown MT
Individual Awards
High Total Score W2EQ Tom Brown
2nd Place W8MET Metro Sinko
3rd Place W2AZQ Carl Lundgren
4th Place K3TW Thomas J Warren
5th Place KD8WK Robert Stampfli
High Retiree W8MET Metro Sinko
High Phone W2EQ Tom Brown
High CW W8MET Metro Sinko
High QRP Score K3TW Thomas J Warren
High Non-Bell Score W2MN Tom Nevue
High Digital Score WA2LXE Philip Barber
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Congratulations to the winners and to all who helped make 2011 another
successful year for CQ-WE. The Middletown crew took all the Location
awards with a clean sweep. Perennial high-scorer Tom Brown took the top
individual honor this year, repeating his top-tier performance of 2002.
Well-known CQ-WE contesters Metro Sinko, Thomas Warren, Tom Nevue, and
Philip Barber took the High CW, QRP, Non-Bell, and Digitial scores
respectively.
The complete results can be found here. Again,
thanks to everyone who took time out of their busy lives to make the 2011
edition of CQ-WE another success. We hope you enjoyed the contest, and
we look forward to seeing you on the bands once again this November.
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Have a specific question about CQ-WE? Email the
National Coordinator.
Interested in discussing the contest or just want to keep in touch?
Feel free to join
Ma-Bell-Hams,
a Yahoo E-mail Group where such discussions are welcome:
Just enter your email address in the space below and click "Join Now!".
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The certs are in the mail:
As announced last year, our host location for the 2011 CQ-WE contest
is Murray Hill (MH). Shel Darack/WA2UBK and Mary McGuinness/K2KYF have
agreed to jointly serve as our 2011 host coordinators. Both of these radio
amateurs are seasoned CQ-WE participants, and they have been hard at work
designing and producing the certificates for last year's contest. We are
pleased to report that the certs are in the mail to those who requested
them and you should be receiving yours soon.
The role of Contest Host is an important one, and we appreciate the time
and effort the various locations put into designing and distributing their
certificates. We especially appreciate the quick response from the MH team.
If you'd like to highlight your own location by hosting a future
contest, please contact the National Coordinator.
It does take a modicum of effort, but with it comes a tremendous feeling of
accomplishment to show off your location in the contest, and your handiwork
will be preserved for posterity not only on this website, but also in the
shacks of your fellow Bell System colleagues.
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Help us Compile a Historical Record of our Bell System Locations and Ham Clubs:
A big part of the CQ-WE contest is communicating with as many different
Location Codes
as possible. The locations these codes represent made up the once great
Bell System.
Today, many — actually, most — of these locations, along
with their location-sanctioned ham clubs, are either defunct or a shadow of
their former selves.
The CQ-WE committee is undertaking a project to resurrect
and preserve a history of the various Bell System locations before this
information and heritage is permanently lost. But, its success depends
on you! Please check our
Location Histories
page, and if you can provide some information on a missing location —
or additional information on one that has already been published —
consider authoring a short article describing your location. If it supported
a corporate ham club, please include your remembrances of that, too. Use
the existing write-ups as guides for style and format. Please send your
material to the CQ-WE webmaster,
cqwe-2012@cqwe.cboh.org,
and we'll put it up on the web site to highlight your location for posterity,
and even give you credit in the byline.
By taking a few minutes to document what you know from your personal
experience with AT&T and its subsidiaries, we hope to preserve some
of the rich history of the many facets of the once proud and great
Bell System.
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