AFFLIIATED SOCIETIES (AFS) CW CONTEST, 2004.

January saw another successful CW Affiliated Teams Contest. An incredible thirty thousand qsos took place within the four hour period from 224 entrants within 76 affiliated teams. As always, competition was fierce within both the Individual and Team sections and only a handful of qsos separated the leading stations right through to the end.

Once again Lichfield ARS (G0MTN G3SJJ G3NKC G4XUM G3VHB) head the Team table with 12150 points collecting the Edgware Trophy closely followed by runners up Chiltern Dx A with 11870.
In the individual section Lichfield’s Chris Burbanks G3SJJ picks up the Marconi Trophy with a win scoring 2620 points, followed by Chiltern Dx A’s Dave Lawley G4BUO with 2550 points. A Certificate of Achievement is also awarded to M3RRH as the leading Foundation Licensee. Congratulations to all.

Conditions during the event were commented on to be ‘below par’ especially during the first hours, with many entrants experiencing unusual variances of propagation. However early rates and final scores are not far from what have been seen so far from previous years.
As to be expected from an event such as this the majority of activity came from within the UK nevertheless many qsos were made with countries right across Europe in the later stages of the contest.
A special mention should be made to a swl log received from ZL2JKY noting over a dozen entrants signals being heard. This highlights just some the potential of 80m at sunset during this time of year.
See a pic ZL2JKY's log here.

Many thanks, to all the competing teams and their members who took part. Once again AFS proves itself to be an event not to be missed.

Tim Elwell M0BEW.

Edgware Trophy. Lichfield Amateur Radio Society Team A - G0MTN G3SJJ G3NKC G4XUM G3VHB

Marconi Trophy : G3SJJ - JC Burbanks

Certificate of Achievement : M3RRH - Robin Humphries