W3AJ Contests

While "you don't get to talk to people" (Prof. Moscatelli), the ARRL Phone Sweepstakes are fun for beginners, since you get practice making contacts with hundreds of hams in a matter of hours.

W3AJ scored 12,760 points in the 1998 sweepstakes, which is not bad considering the number of operators and the time spent on air. We got over double the score for the 1999 sweepstakes with the help of a computer logging program.

Our next goal is to get a clean sweep of all 79 geographic sections. Let's win those ARRL coffee mugs!

Other contest participations have included the ARRL Field Day and CQ Magazine's DX contest.