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RSGB Contest Results Autumn Series CW 2022   
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3.5MHz Autumn Series - November CW results

This was the last Autumn Series CW contest for 2022 and also the final session for the series.  Unfortunately propagation did not allow a level playing field for all stations, the critical frequency was often below 3.5MHz which resulted in more favourable band conditions for stations away from the centre of mainland UK.  Many stations reported very deep and rapid QSB and this was no doubt responsible for the high number of 'not in log' errors noted during adjudication.

There were 164 entrants in total, slightly down on last year's final CW session, with logs received from ten different non-UK&CD countries.  There were a further fifteen different overseas countries in the logs, all from Europe apart from EA8.

Thanks to Stewart GW0ETF for running the bonus station GW6XX.  With the generally longer skip band conditions experienced, Stewart's QTH near Bangor, North Wales, allowed most entrants in the UK&CD an opportunity of making that five point bonus contact.  Stewart made 151 QSOs.

Entrants are again reminded that no transmissions must be made in the two minutes immediately preceding the start and all QSOs must be completed before the end.  A wideband SDR recording was used to check for any violations, a few were found and penalties applied.  Please ensure your clock is accurately set before the start.

As this is the last contest in the series the overall club awards for 2022 have been finalised.  The list below shows the awards in the Local and General club categories together with the individual certificates for the three CW sessions.  The SSB and DATA individual certificates can be viewed by navigating to the appropriate page.  The final table of overall individual scores shows Dave G3TBK the leader for the sixth successive year accumulating 8728 points for Grimsby ARS from the nine sessions with John G4CZB as runner-up scoring 7901 points.  The leading Intermediate station is Tim 2E0TJX with Gerwyn MW7FON as the highest placed Foundation Licensee.  The leading non-UK&CD entrant is Yuri DF1MM.  Thanks to Yuri and all the non-UK&CD stations for their continued support, over the nine sessions there were 73 entrants from overseas, again an increase on last year.

Congratulations to the Trophy and all the Certificate winners and we look forward to the 2023 Club Championship starting on Monday 6th February with the SSB contest.

John G4CZB






Overall Individual Results here