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RECORDS WERE SET AT THE DXCC ENTITY AND W/VE/XE SECTION LEVEL.  LOOKING AT
IT ANOTHER WAY, ALMOST 1 IN EVERY 12 LOGS CONTAINED A RECORD SCORE AND 1 IN
EVERY 5 DXCC AND W/VE/XE SECTION RECORDS WAS SET IN 2011.  COMPARATIVELY
ONLY 34 SUCH RECORDS WERE SET IN 2010.  THANKS TO THE EFFORTS OF KEN, WM5R
A FULL SET OF CONTEST RECORDS IS AVAILABLE AT WWW. ARRL. ORG/CONTESTS.  OF
THESE 432 RECORDS, 226 WERE DX ENTITY RECORDS AND 206 WERE W/VE/XE SECTION
RECORDS.  THERE WERE 149 HIGH POWER RECORDS, 221 LOW POWER RECORDS 117 OF
THESE BEING INITIAL RECORDS IN THE MOLP CATEGORY AND 63 QRP RECORDS SET.
MEXICAN OPERATORS CONTINUE TO PARTICIPATE IN INCREASING NUMBERS WITH 40 NEW
XE RECORDS IN 2011.  THERE ARE NOW RECORDS IN 68 OF THE 352 POSSIBLE ENTRY
CATEGORIES IN XE, UP FROM 28 LAST YEAR.  WITHIN W/VE/XE A TOTAL OF 50
DIVISION RECORDS WERE SET.  SEVENTEEN OF THESE WERE THE INITIAL RECORDS IN
THE NEW MOLP CATEGORY AND 10 WERE FROM MEXICO WHERE OPERATORS SET NEW
RECORDS IN EVERY CATEGORY EXCEPT SINGLE OP, MIXED MODE, QRP.  WHAT A GREAT
EFFORT FROM XE IN THE SECOND YEAR OF THE CONTEST WITH THE NEW RULES.  SEE
THE SIDEBAR MEXICAN ACTIVITY UPDATE.  DIVISION RECORDS WERE SPRINKLED
ACROSS ALL THE OPERATING CATEGORIES THOUGH NO NEW RECORDS WERE SET IN THE
PHONE ONLY LOW OR HIGH POWER CATEGORIES OUTSIDE OF MEXICO.  EVEN WITH THIS
BIG BATCH OF NEW RECORDS THERE ARE STILL SOME OLD ONES OUT THERE TO AIM AT.
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