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The 2009 ARRL Sweepstakes CW Contest was a record setting event, as Steve London N2IC set a new High Power mark while winning his third straight Single Operator High Power title, and Team W6YI took a third consecutive Multi-op win, breaking a 14 year old record in the process.
N2IC added almost 11,000 points to his all-time record score in the "B" category, while Team W6YI broke the Multi record of AA5B set back in 1995 by almost 9,000 points.
London's lead of over 9,000 points was never in doubt during log checks, as he lost 15 of his 1612 claimed contacts, allowing him to stay clear of both Mark Obermann AG9A, who operated from N0NI in Iowa, and Kevin Stockton N5DX, who challenged from his father's (K5GO) station in Arkansas.
In winning his third straight SS CW, N2IC finished with 255,520 points, to 244,960 for both AG9A and N5DX, who tied for second.
Todd Dravland WD0T was fourth in high power, with Ralph Bradford K5GA fifth from WX0B.
The top five in the Multi-op battle did not change after log checks, though W6YI extended its lead from just over 11,000 points in claimed scores, to a final margin of 15,280 points over Team NR5M in South Texas.
K4TD was third, KP2M fourth and WY7SS from Wyoming was in fifth place.
W6YI has the chance to win both legs of the 2009 Sweepstakes and set records in both as well. It was the fourth win in the last five years in the Multi category for W6YI.
The battle in the Unlimited class came down to a single contact - that was the difference between Ty Stewart K3MM and Dave Hachadorian K6LL.
Stewart owned a 1600 point lead in claimed scores, but that nearly evaporated, as he went from 218,240 down to 212,960 points.
K6LL missed a tie by just 160 points - one contact - as he dropped from 216,640 to 212,800.
Both ops fell short of Hachadorian's record in the Unlimited category of 216,800 that he posted back in 2002.
The low power battle turned out to be a narrow victory for Marv Bloomquist N5AW, as he hung on for a 960 point win over Tor Clay N4OGW.
Bloomquist went into log checks with a 3,680 point lead over Matt Trott K7BG, who ended up dropping into third place, as N4oGW lost less than a thousand points in bad QSO's.
KP3Z (NP4Z op) was in fourth, while K0AD finished fifth in the "A" category.
In the five-watt section, Kirk Pengelly N0KK outdueled defending QRP champ Kirk Pickering K4RO for the "Q" title.
Operating from N0AT, Pengelly went into log checks with a lead of over 11,000 points and finished up 10,400 ahead of Pickering.
N2IC - High Power
N5AW - Low Power
N0AT (N0KK) - QRP
K3MM - Unlimited
W6YI - Multi
K0HC (W0BH) - School
The results of the 2009 SS CW are available at the ARRL website.
The number of logs submitted for the ARRL Sweepstakes hit a record in 2009, with 1,554 logs, up from 1,423 in 2008, a 9% increase.
The SSB test had 2,054 logs submitted, which was also a record for ARRL SS SSB.
"It is great to see so many hams not just getting on for our contests, but submitting logs in record numbers," said ARRL Contest Manager Sean Kutzko KX9X.
The results were issued much earlier than usual, part of an effort by Kutzko to get final numbers to contesters more quickly.
"We promised that the results for SS would be published online in 60 days," Kutzko wrote in a summary for the web.
"We fell a little short on that request (74 days), but we can still publish the numbers much faster than usual."
What slowed him down? Paper logs which had almost 10,000 QSO's that had to be manually entered into the log checking data base.
