What Is The MRRC Challenge?<\/p>\n
The MRRC Challenge is a year-long metric of contest participation within the club.\u00a0 Members receive points based on how they finish in certain major contests throughout the year, and at the end of the Challenge year, the club member with the most points is recognized.\u00a0 Think of it as “MRRC Contester Of The Year”.<\/p>\n
The Challenge begins with CQWW SSB and ends with the September SSB Sprint of the following year.\u00a0 Since the Challenge is based on\u00a0published<\/u>\u00a0results, the winner is generally not determined until the Dayton meeting of the following year.\u00a0 Eligibility is based on the roster of members in good standing through the Findlay meeting.<\/p>\nHow Do I Participate?<\/h5>\n
Participating in the Challenge occurs automatically from the member’s point of view.\u00a0 Challenge Coordinator\u00a0TBD<\/strong>, reviews the published contest results, notes MRRC scores, calculates members’ Challenge points and maintains their running total.\u00a0 Essentially, all you have to do is submit your log to the contest sponsor.<\/p>\n For every contest in the challenge, there is a maximum number of points available.\u00a0 Every entrant’s score is “prorated” against the winning score in one of the following categories:<\/p>\n It might be observed that many contests have more categories than this. For example in the CQ WPX contest, “single-op, single-band, assisted, QRP, tribander\/simple wires” is a valid category.\u00a0 However, in order to keep the Challenge bookkeeping to a reasonable level of complexity, such a score would be prorated against the regular “single-op, all band, QRP” entry.<\/p>\n An entrant’s MRRC Challenge score for a particular contest is calculated like this:<\/p>\n (Entrant’s Published Score \/ Winning Category Score) x Maximum Challenge Points Value For That Contest<\/strong><\/p>\n So for example, if the maximum Challenge Points value for the contest were 1000, and the entrant’s score was half of the winning category score, the entrant would receive 500 points towards the MRRC Challenge.<\/p>\n For single-op entries, obviously the operator receives all of the credited Challenge Points.\u00a0 This includes guest-operators at stations other than their own, unless the station owner indicates otherwise to the Challenge coordinator.\u00a0 For multi-op entries, the credited Challenge Points are divided evenly between the operators who are MRRC members, with an additional equal “share” or “portion” going to the station owner.\u00a0 So for example, if W8AV hosts a multi-op with two additional guest operators, the credited Challenge Points are divided into four (three ops plus one) shares.\u00a0 W8AV gets two shares (one for owner and another for operator) and the guest ops get one share apiece.<\/p>\n The following contests count for the Challenge. The maximum number of Challenge Points is also shown:<\/p>\n The total possible points is\u00a017,850<\/strong>.<\/p>\n MRRC maintains a “traveling” plaque which carries the name and year of the MRRC Challenge champion.\u00a0 During the current year, the champion gets to keep the plaque at their QTH, and the plaque is relinquished when the next champion is crowned.\u00a0 The champion also gets a small plaque signifying their accomplishment which is theirs to keep.<\/p>\n Also, at the end of the Challenge year, an overall listing of the club members who participated in the Challenge is published in the MRRC newsletter, and the top ten are acknowledged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What Is The MRRC Challenge? The MRRC Challenge is a year-long metric of contest participation within the club.\u00a0 Members receive points based on how they finish in certain major contests throughout the year, and at the end of the Challenge year, the club member with the most points is recognized.\u00a0 Think of it as “MRRC … Continue reading MRRC Challenge<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madriverradioclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/125"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madriverradioclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madriverradioclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madriverradioclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madriverradioclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.madriverradioclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129,"href":"https:\/\/www.madriverradioclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/125\/revisions\/129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madriverradioclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}How Are Challenge Points Calculated?<\/h3>\n
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What Contests Count For The Challenge?<\/h5>\n
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\n CQWW (SSB\/CW)<\/td>\n <\/td>\n 2000 for each contest<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n SS (SSB\/CW)<\/td>\n <\/td>\n 1000 for each contest<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n ARRL 160<\/td>\n <\/td>\n 750<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n ARRL 10<\/td>\n <\/td>\n 750<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n CQ 160 (SSB\/CW)<\/td>\n <\/td>\n 750 for each contest<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n NAQP (SSB\/CW)<\/td>\n <\/td>\n 200 for each contest<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Sprints (SSB\/CW)<\/td>\n <\/td>\n 200 for each contest<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n ARRL DX (SSB\/CW)<\/td>\n <\/td>\n 2000 for each contest<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n CQ WPX (SSB\/CW)<\/td>\n <\/td>\n 750 for each contest<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n IARU HF<\/td>\n <\/td>\n 750<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n MI QSO Party<\/td>\n <\/td>\n 500<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n OH QSO Party<\/td>\n <\/td>\n 500<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n How Are The Winners Of The Challenge Recognized?<\/h3>\n