Kansas City DX Club
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Home of the Annual Dayton CW Pileup Competition
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Annual CW Pileup Competition
Kansas City DX Club Hospitality Suite
Dayton Crowne Plaza Hotel - Suite 525
Competition History and Details:
The Kansas City DX Club has hosted its hospitality suite at the Dayton Crowne Plaza Hotel on Hamvention weekend every year since 1980. In 1981, the club introduced its popular CW Pileup Competition, which was an instant hit, and quickly became a "must-do" for contesters and DXers from all over the world.
The Competition has been held each and every year since 1981, and has become a Hamvention weekend tradition.
The format is straightforward - Participants are seated at a table in an adjoining room, and are given a set of headphones and a laptop. They are charged with copying as many calls as possible from a pileup of about 100 calls. The pileup file (created anew each year by Tom, NØSS, from a list of calls selected and submitted by Russ, KØVXU) simulates a possible "on the air" experience, with some calls sent once, some twice, at varying speeds and pitches. Some calls are "in the clear", but many are on top each other. After about five minutes, the test is over, and the current participants are ushered out one door while six more enter from another.
The entries are scored automatically, and the scores are quickly transcribed to a results chart on the wall in the main hospitality suite.
The last test is offered about midnight, and then the final results are tallied and great prizes, provided by generous donors from the amateur radio equipment industry, are presented to the winners.
If you make it to the Dayton Hamvention, don't miss this event...Saturday nights beginning at 8:00 p.m. You'll have a great time, and may take home a great prize!
Thanks to the gracious 2010 prize donors:
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