SCARC US Islands 2018 Annual Contest

On Saturday August 25th, the Annual US Island contest was held. The goal of this 15-hour long event is for hams on US and Canadian islands to work as many other stations as possible (both island and non-islands) and for non-island stations to work as many islands as possible.

This year the W7PIG effort was mounted at the QTH of Lee - K7IOC on Camano Island. The plan was to do the same in 2018 as we had done in 2016, only better. Operations were conducted on the non-WARC bands: 160, 80, 40, 20, 15, 10, 6, 2 and 70cm. Modes included SSB, CW, PSK31. It was very hectic at times but everyone had a lot of fun with the contest! It also was good training experience. Glad we had some newcomers participate.

Participants at the "PIG-pen" (W7PIG) included: Sue - KK6SUE, Joe - WA7JT, Cathy - KI7TOQ and Lee - K7IOC.
Supporters included rovers: Jerry - W6RKE, Nairy - KG7KCD, Fred - N7KRN, Steve - AC7SG, Jason - KE7UIU, Dave - K7GYB, Robert - KA7VIF.
Others who helped us this year were: Ward - W7SXM, Dick - AH6EZ

The SCARC results for the 2018 Contest:

	Contacts: 506	States worked: 41	Provinces worked: 4
	Territories: 1	Unique Islands: 30	Total island contacts: 179
	Rovers were key to our Club's achievement:
	Fred - N7KRN 4 islands	Steve - AC7SG 5 islands	Jerry - W6RKE 8 islands
	Nairy - KG7KCD 8 islands	Dave - K7GYB 6 islands	Robert - KA7VIF 6 islands
	Jason - KE7UIU 1 island
	Final Score: 308,238 points. FIRST PLACE in Fixed Station & FIRST PLACE Over-all! In addition, Steve - AC7SG earned First Place in the Rover Category with Fred - N7KRN a close Second!

For more information about the SCARC US Island Contest efforts, contact:
Joe Thomas - WA7JT or
Lee - K7IOC Email: K7IOC (at) ARRL.net

For more information about the US Islands program, please see US Islands.