K3WWP's Contest Honor Roll

I'm sure it's not easy copying my minimal QRP signal on the highly cluttered bands during a contest. So I've decided to 'honor' those contesters who seemingly do it easily - or at least take the time and effort required to get me in their log.

To make my 'Honor Roll', a station must have worked me at least 50 times in contests. I've also had regular QSO's with many of the stations listed, but the totals are only for contest QSO's. I've also worked some of the stations back in the 60's when I ran more than 5 watts. The listing here only includes contacts when I ran 5 watts or less.

Some of the stations listed are contest club stations. I didn't make the effort to find out who the operators were. I've worked some of the stations under different callsigns as they changed with the vanity callsign program. I made no effort to combine totals in that case. The list is compiled simply from call letter listings in my master computer log. I did count /P or /M stations since my log contains a 'base' field which strips the portable designation from the call. For example the 'call' field may be K4BAI/4 and the base field is just K4BAI.

I hope to update this listing regularly, hopefully after each major contest if I have the time, but at least every few months. Many stations are in the upper 40's and ready to make the list.

Tied stations are listed alphanumerically

CALL      QSOs   Notes
K4BAI      161

KB3BFQ     147   My ex-neighbor in town
W9MSE      147   Many mobile QSO's

N4BP       138

K4LTA      113

AA3B       101

N4ZZ        84

K4RO        79
VE3EJ       77   Top Canadian station
K0EJ        75
W2JEK       75   Top QRP station
W9WI        75
NA4K        73
K3WW        72
N0NI        72
W2SH        72
W5WMU       72

W3DYA       68   Many mobile QSO's
N4FI        66
N9CK        65
VE5SF       64
KF9D        63   Many mobile QSO's
KN4Y        63   Many mobile QSO's
W5NN        62
W9CC        61
K4AMC       60
N0AV        60

K4UK        59
K9OM        58
N4AF        58
N4IR        58
WA1UJU      57
WP2Z        56   Top DX station
PJ2T        55
W4NZ        55
W9RE        55
WK2G        55
WO4O        54
P40W        53
HC8N        52
K5KA        52   Silent Key
KD2MX       52
KT3Y        52
N9NE        52
WE9V        52
HG1S        51   Club station - Top EU station
K1BV        51
W4PA        50

I hope you find this interesting. If you're a QRP contester, you can count on these stations to hear and work you in a contest. I'm fairly certain of that. These stations have great receiving antennas and/or great 'ears'.