RSGB Contest Results SSB Field Day 2012

v4.158 by G4CLA

Summary:

There were 51 entries this year, which is 6 more than last year and only a few down on the record high of 2010. The Paralympics were in full swing that weekend, which may not have helped numbers. WX was reported as good in most parts of the country. Band conditions were poor and similar to last year. However there was a short opening on 10m at the start of the contest to Asia, the Pacific and Africa, from which some stations in both sections were able to pick up some valuable multipliers.

The issue of the concurrent running of the All Asia contest was again raised by many soapbox comments. The problem is that non-Asia stations calling 'CQ All Asia' will not make a QSO with Field Day entrants from Europe. This is not surprising as they would get no points from a non-Asia QSO, it would waste their time, and it might mess up their log if they entered it. However Asian stations do get QSO credit for non-Asia QSOs! They are generally happy to work European /P stations provided we also supply our age, which is the AA contest exchange. Enter what you receive into your log, either serial number or age, and everyone is happy. So the advice for European /P stations is to make full use of the extra Asian stations on the bands, but don't call non-Asian stations in the AA contest.

Most groups seem to have had fun and an enjoyable weekend with plenty taking advantage of the good weather for socialising.

Results:

There were 16 entries in the Open Section, which was headed up by Bristol CG, G6YB/P, who stepped up their game this year with a new HF antenna. In contrast East Notts CG, G3TBK/P, had problems with their HF antenna, but still managed to take second place. They narrowly edged Buchan CG, MM0AOQ/P, into third place on multipliers. Last year's Open Section winners Cray Valley RS, G3RCV/P, were not taking part this year due to their involvement with the Olympics. Bristol CG will be awarded the Northumbria Trophy.

The Restricted Section had 35 entries and the results demonstrate the importance of multipliers. The winner this year is Three As CG, GW0AAA/P, who squeezed Adrian, MW1LCR/P, into second place. GW0AAA/P had a lower score from QSOs, but multipliers won the day. It was a similar situation between third and fourth places. Central Contest Assoc., G3SJJ/P, were in third place with a better multiplier tally than Worthing & District ARC, G3WOR/P, in fourth place in spite of their significantly higher QSO total. Three As CG will be awarded the G3PSH Memorial Trophy.

Unfortunately one station was unaware of General Rule 6(a) which prohibits the use of a Special Prefixes. A penalty of 10% of has been applied to their final score. Two other stations who were unware of General Rule 4(f) on self spotting have received a warning. Encouragingly no stations that have been warned previously have appeared on the radar this year.

Notes on adjudication:

The adjudication was conducted by Alan G3XSV and independently verified by Quin G3WRR.

Adjudication accuracy was helped by over 350 logs received from other European countries who run their own Field Days, and from the IARU Region 1 contest administrators, DARC. This provided a database of approx. 135,000 contacts that were checkable. Even those contacts that did not involve a UK station at either end help our adjudication software identify systematic logging issues and create a fuller picture of who was on the bands, where and when.

Continued enhancement of the RSGB's adjudication software now makes it even easier to indentify stations that may have repeatedly put incorrect information in their logs either by their error or due to logging software issues. Typical examples are: sending serial numbers one out from what is logged, logging the incorrect band, and omitting /P from their callsign. In the past many of these may have been assumed to be the receiving station's fault, or in the case of band errors both would lose the points. The tool helps identify serial offenders (excuse the pun!) and more accurately assess who was at fault.

Another advance is that certificate winners can now download their certificate direct from the result web page.

Alan Hydes G3XSV

email: g3xsv@blueyonder.co.uk)

SSB Field Day 01/09/12

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Pos	Callsign	Club	80 Qs	80 Ms	40 Qs	40 Ms	20 Qs	20 Ms	15 Qs	15 Ms	10 Qs	10 Ms	QSOs	Points	Mults	Total	Ant show	Equipment show	Operators	Soapbox show	Pos Cert
1	G6YB/P	Bristol CG	148	19	285	37	824	61	415	57	83	19	1,755	6,181	193	1,192,933			G4FKA G3TKF G3XSV G3ZVW M1DSE M0WLF
2	G3TBK/P	East Notts CG	291	22	489	42	287	43	100	37	9	9	1,176	4,454	153	681,462			G3TBK G0GDU G4HVC M0TBK
3	MM0AOQ/P	Buchan CG	173	16	296	32	505	45	238	41	5	5	1,217	4,547	139	632,033			MM0AOQ MM0LID
4	G6PYE/P	Camb-Hams	163	19	409	35	166	43	187	37	16	9	941	3,606	143	515,658			G0TPH G3ZAY G4BAO G6KWA G8NPH M0BLF M0GXM M0LCM M0VFC M0ZRN M1ACB M1BXF
5	G8PX/P	Oxford & DARS	173	18	184	26	239	43	124	37	42	18	762	3,046	142	432,532			M0DDT G4AZN G7IVF M1SLH 2E0SQL
6	G4EKT/P	Hornsea ARC	214	20	151	27	231	38	104	23	22	10	722	2,983	118	351,994			M0GVZ M6BOP G4CGG G4YTV G3XYF
7	G3GHN/P	Clifton ARS	275	18	282	30	145	34	40	13	14	8	756	3,025	103	311,575			G3JKY G4RFC G0GQT G3BSN G4DBW
8	G4ARN/P	Norfolk ARC	193	17	308	25	163	35	63	16	1	1	728	2,890	94	271,660			2E0NKI G7SNC 2E0CIP 2E0LJG M0TZY M0UMH G7SOZ 2E0DWT M0EBN
9	G4WAC/P	Wythall RC	149	18	277	21	320	46	7	3	2	1	755	2,957	89	263,173			M0MCX M0JMM G4VPD
10	G3KLH/P	Newbury & DARS	256	21	370	33	62	17	9	8	16	9	713	2,844	88	250,272			G3KLH G0ORH
11	G4ARF/P	Furness ARS	210	17	366	25	71	22	15	12	3	3	665	2,675	79	211,325			G3IZD 2E0TCC 2E0MYK 2E0SLK
12	G4HRC/P	Havering & DARC	198	18	320	23	43	17	1	1	2	2	564	2,180	61	132,980			M0TAZ M0UKD M1GEO
13	G0SRC/P	South Derbyshire & Ashby Woulds ARG	121	11	198	19	138	29	4	4	17	5	478	1,886	68	128,248			G0SRC G4CRT 2E0JQY G7IZZ G7JHW
14	G3MDG/P	Chesham & DARS	88	10	129	23	52	18	11	10	2	2	282	1,230	63	77,490			G3XZG G0VFW G3RXQ M6HNZ M0ZTP
15	M0HFC/P	Humber Fortress DX ARC	0	0	237	15	5	5	16	9	0	0	258	930	29	26,970			G7LRR M0MGF 2E0SCA
16	G0KDV/P	Darenth Valley RS	0	0	288	17	8	5	2	2	0	0	298	1,092	24	26,208			G0FDU G1YRV M0RAW M0HAL

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Pos	Callsign	Club	80 Qs	80 Ms	40 Qs	40 Ms	20 Qs	20 Ms	15 Qs	15 Ms	10 Qs	10 Ms	QSOs	Points	Mults	Total	Ant show	Equipment show	Operators	Soapbox show	Pos Cert
1	GW0AAA/P	Three As CG	250	25	307	30	212	42	69	34	46	21	884	3,574	152	543,248			GW4BKG GW4BLE G3TXF G3WVG
2	MW1LCR/P	No club (single op)	81	16	325	31	409	46	100	32	41	16	956	3,604	141	508,164			MW1LCR
3	G3SJJ/P	Central Contest Association	204	18	281	26	170	44	39	25	16	9	710	2,955	122	360,510			G3ZQH G3SJJ
4	G3WOR/P	Worthing & DARC	260	21	412	28	125	31	36	19	16	8	849	3,307	107	353,849			G4FNL G8FMJ G4BVH G4LKW
5	G3ULT/P	Reading & DARC	194	21	261	31	112	36	40	26	11	8	619	2,650	123	325,950			M0DHO G0VQR G0LHZ
6	G4IRN/P	Radio Ga Ga CG	252	22	226	31	120	39	31	15	15	8	644	2,805	115	322,575			G0OPB G4IRN
7	M5ARC/P	Wisbech AR & EC	212	18	282	21	140	36	17	12	13	8	664	2,744	95	260,680			M0CKE M0CHK G0FRM
8	GW4TTA/P	Dragon ARC	151	15	193	18	244	35	28	22	11	8	627	2,582	98	253,036			GW0GEI GW0ETF MW0BER
9	G6MC/P	Brimham CG	212	19	272	29	123	30	17	14	0	0	624	2,671	92	245,732			G4MEM G5KC G6MC M0LMH 2E0EOW
10	G4HRS/P	Horsham ARC	167	16	186	21	72	25	32	18	14	9	471	2,018	89	179,602			G4TMC G4LRP G8CKT M0GJH G3ZBU M0GUI G7BBP
11	G2AS/P	Sheffield ARC	158	11	143	20	83	32	26	18	26	13	436	1,894	94	178,036			G3PHO G0HSA M1ERS M0TWS M6KSH G7NNZ
12	G3VRE/P	Chippenham & DARC	178	14	142	18	91	27	22	13	20	8	453	1,921	80	153,680			G0GRI M0VAI G3YBT G0IUE G8TTI M6XBX M6DTA G7KVO
13	GW6GW/P	Blackwood & DARS	91	12	130	18	163	38	18	16	7	6	409	1,698	90	152,820			MW0MAU MW0MWZ GW7VQD MW0LLO MW0RZC GW4HBK
14	GW4LWZ/P	Chepstow and DARS	129	15	101	26	75	29	30	18	6	5	341	1,533	93	142,569			GW0EGH G8YJM 2W0MAO M6AVK M0SSJ GW8ZOE
15	M0MCG/P	Moors CG	149	15	183	16	75	22	16	13	11	8	434	1,821	74	134,754			G4WFR G7ASJ
16	G5FZ/P	Lincoln SWC	161	17	248	23	85	17	4	4	0	0	498	2,142	61	130,662			M0SIY M0ZLE G0PIO G0OSO
17	MN0AKU/P	The Foyle & DARC	117	12	183	23	138	24	9	8	0	0	447	1,683	67	112,761			MI0FDS GI7FJY GW0NVN
18	M0VSQ/P	The Vulture Squadron CG	106	11	74	13	144	28	21	13	7	3	352	1,578	68	107,304			M0PCB M0GEJ G0HVQ M0IRD
19	G4YRC/P	York RC	90	12	173	21	55	22	8	7	5	3	331	1,448	65	94,120			M0EBR G4XIV G0TXY G7COG G1DRG M0KOO G0WUY M6YYK
20	G4ATH/P	Thornton Cleveleys ARS	162	18	74	14	92	22	5	5	0	0	333	1,564	59	92,276			M0JME 2E0ZDX 2E0JOB
21	M0AAA/P	Reading & DARC	154	15	164	19	21	15	2	2	4	4	345	1,515	55	83,325			G0LHZ G0VQR M1CYE
22	G4SJM/P	Ripon & DARS	130	16	106	18	52	14	9	5	8	5	305	1,422	58	82,476			M0RBY G3UNA M0DCD 2E0SML 2E0WAY G4IUF
23	G4FUR/P	Coulsdon ATS	111	16	95	13	43	24	12	10	9	4	270	1,224	67	82,008			G0KZT G6JXA G3WZK G3ZMF G4CDY
24	GI3XRQ/P	Bangor & DARS	137	12	133	16	40	13	9	8	1	1	323	1,512	53	80,136			GI4AAM GI4DOH GI4JTF GI0SSA
25	G0HDV/P	Scunthorpe Steel ARC	132	13	176	19	40	21	1	1	0	0	349	1,472	54	79,488			G0OKF G0HDV
26	G6OI/P	Stourbridge & DRS	108	14	120	15	56	23	6	6	0	0	290	1,369	58	79,402			G8UAE G8BOP G7AXW G7HEZ M6APJ G4WAO G7EDZ
27	G7SAC/P	Sutton & Cheam RS	158	17	120	14	38	16	0	0	1	1	317	1,504	48	72,192			M1MRB G0KBL M0ZEY 2E0CTH M0SGL G1MPW M0PRV
28	GM4AGG/P	West of Scotland ARS	77	12	75	18	65	22	6	4	1	1	224	1,027	57	58,539			GM4TOQ MM0ZUN
29	G0IVR/P	Itchen Valley ARC	39	6	88	13	47	21	21	16	5	5	200	905	61	55,205			G4YUP G0BHK G0VNI G3HRH G3OTK M0ACL M5MDH
30	G2DX/P	Farnborough & DRS	32	6	144	13	51	17	8	7	5	4	240	988	47	46,436			G0YYY G4OUC G4SPD G7BCS G8BCO G3OFA
31	M0TSL/P	Gordano ARG	17	6	56	8	63	24	17	15	14	9	167	712	62	44,144			G0AZE G8SPC G1UPP G4KPM M0HCT
32	G4LKW/P	Worthing & District Amateur Radio Club	32	12	47	12	34	16	11	9	2	2	126	551	51	28,101			G4LKW M3ORE G0KAG 2E0MDO M6DCQ
33	G3WKS/P	West Kent ARS	7	3	167	21	11	7	0	0	0	0	185	857	31	26,567			G3YOU G4FWG G3KIP M6JVG M6BQY G0DJC G4JED
34	G3JRM/P	Lowestoft District & Pye ARC	33	6	68	9	27	13	0	0	1	1	129	579	29	16,791			M1TES G8RHQ 2E1LJL G4RLS 2E0CBH G3XGK 2E0TJW
35	M0UTD/P	South Cheshire ARS (single op)	0	0	56	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	56	226	9	2,034			M0UTD

Many thanks for check logs received from YO6IKB/P, VU3DMP, YO3CZW, PY1PL, SP4EOO/P, OH5B/P, PA0MIR, MO1JJK/P, MU0GSY, M0GUZ, M0PAX, LA1VNA, G6VMR, GM4ZUK, GO3VQO/P, G3UFY, G3WRR, G6GLP, G3LX/P, G3RSD, F/G3MXH/P, F1AGR/P, F6KPC/P, VE9OA, OH2AAB/P, M1DST, KD4QMY, G3LHJ, EA2DT, LZ2STO and PC5Z