Radio Society of Great Britain. Official HF. Contest Results.
Results - 80m Club Championships 2008
Individual Sessions - 4th FEB SSB
M0HFX Band conditions very poor M0JQK Conditions were abysmal but really enjoyed the fight lets hope conditions improve for the next one SD log was a big help. Thankyou.It is so easy to use i would recomend it to anyone contesting. It's super. M0LMH First time on contest, inv v, ic-7400, 80w M0LUY Feb lived down to its great expectations again M0MDF Shame that the band collapsed half way through M0NCN It was like peering through mud with an s9+ noise level. I kept skipping up and down the band and could find nothing. My first contest under my new full licence callsign! M0OMV I thought there was something wrong with my gear but later found out that everyone else had the same poor conditions. My first time in this contest. M0OXO Hard work but enjoyable M0RBG Terrible conditions all stations very weak M0SCG Poor condx with qsb not many stations heard which was disappointing. M0SFG Band conditions - terrible, first contest good fun M0SPC Hard work !! M0TFO Poor conditions! M0VBY Terrible condx - pitiful score, but you have to submit a log to get a point! M0WTG Hard work! M0WYB Dire! Half local, half continental M0XDF Very dire! Saved by 2 Fs! Still K3s first contest and i wonder if i would have heard anything without it. M0XJP Condx terrible very hard going! M1KAH Dear me , that was awful , hopefully better to come. M1PTR Well that was hard work! With a long skip and high noise floor it was a pretty lonely 90mins. M5ALG What can i say the conditions were appaling at this qth. For the 1st 20 minutes i could hear nothing!!! Better luck next time (i hope) MM0BHX A most enjoyable contest night, even if it was listening to noise for most of the time. MM0GPZ Mmmm, difficult MM0RKT Very odd, hardly any G stations but i heard plenty of continentals, including Italy. Problem was working them! PA3AM First contest in 2008, lots of qrm and weak signals, except from Scotland, lots of strong signals from the north. Only 24 qso's, could not make more of it. G0EWN Terrible band conditions. It's easier on 10GHz!! G0KDS Very dire conditions qrp and a dangly wire G3UJE What a great contest to go qrp! Conditions were absolutely awful up here in the north west. Clear frequencies were abundant - hearing anyone to work was the problem! Surely things can only get better! G3VIP Rig ic7000 - 10w - dipole what a waste of time on qrp. M0DIW Heard only local Lincoln stations and a couple out of town including G3TBK and nil hrd from rest of UK. Might as well have been on 2 metre net. M3NLK Very bad conditions, hope to do better in next one enjoyed taking part M3RCV Look forward to the better inter-G conx later in the season. M3UJL Band dead! Would have been nice to get "double figures". Was fun anyway. .. Even the big guns were struggling G4VUD Band conditions abysmal G3YOA First hour very bad noisy conditions giving low scores G6PRB Very poor propagation this time. Highly recommend the use of sd for this contest G7RUP Terrible conditions as normal for feb G4WUG 1st time rookie.....Please be gentle ?!! M1DHV This was the first contest was not good only local |
SOAPBOX: 2E0KOPStrange conditions all locals apart from Clive GM3POI 2E0LLF Difficult conditions for inter 'G' working 2E0RFS Very poor night band conditions not good.But at least we gave it a go. 2E0TFX Very poor conditions! 2M0IVG Conditions rubbish DG4DW My first rsgb contest - funny! F6IRF It has been fun to take part - was not aware of this contest, so just jumped into it. Good activity despite poor conditions. IC756/P2 - loaded dipole at 10m G0ADH Conditions were dreadful G0AJJ Every noise possible on band except stations! Worked really hard for every point! G0DVJ Terrible conditions, long skip and hard going working non-local G G0EUN Lot of noise on frequency. Poor inter G G0EVT Poor condx but very little qrm G0FYX Exceptionally long skip. 1xlocal 3xorkney 2xfrench G0HIK Was it worth it, heard almost nothing G0HSA A struggle from this qth. Where was the propagation? Better luck next time G0ICJ Dead band a few continentals were heard but not taking part in the contest G0IIQ Terrible conditions G0JLF Felt more like 2m on a bad day - truly awful!!! G0JMZ Rubish G0KYS Long skip for whole of contest! Only ground wave GMs and europe worked. Interesting though :-) G0LGJ/M Terrible cdx no inter G. SD worked well ! G0MTN No frequency fights. No arguments. No qrm. No qsos. No hope. No conditions. No antenna ? G0MUD Hard - very few inter G contacts G0OKF Conditions abysmal. Super duper is as named. G0RAF Long skip - little in the way of G contacts G0TKO S9+ noise, couldn't hear much at all, even with "cans" tnx ei5di for the fantastic log!!!! But oh .. The noise! G0UIQ Not bad hard work but good fun G0WWD Very hard going the band did not open up G1DYN Single operator category a G1FON I am sure everybody else already said it!! G3GHS Yes i did try it G3HRH Dreadful conditions. Here in cornwall i could only hear GMs at any sensible strength G3IZD As ever the first leg of the serise provided woeful propagation with only immediate local station audible and high level of band noise. The later events will no doubt be more fruitful G3JIR It is an utter waste of time organising a UK contest at this time of day. There is no propagation at this time of the year and it has been just the same for the past couple of years. Please do not start the series of events until march next year. It will give us clubs in the frozen north a chance to compete. G3JNB Long skip...Terrible! G3JRM Conditions on the band was terrible and found it very hard to make contacts although some gm stations seemed to do very well G3KNU Awful just awful G3LHJ Where were all the G stations, crazy condxs the GM's had a ball. G3LIK Very long skip and poor conditions. Got sore throat calling CQ SD was good logging system G3NPF My lowest score ever owing to very strange conditions in the south of England. I could hear gm stations with very high scores. Lets hope next month will be better! G3PHO After "persuading" well over a dozen of our club members to come on for this contest i wondered if i had put them off amateur radio for life as the band conditions were so appalling! I've never heard 80m so poor. With only 15 contacts on the first hour, 12 of them local, i thought it must get better in the last 30 minutes but it didn't! GM3POI must be in the best spot in the whole UK as i heard him in the 40s before i'd reached a dozen! Not a sign of any other UK station outside a 10 mile radius other than him and G4RCG G3RCM Lousy propagation! G3RHH As in previous years the skip was too long in this first session for inter-g working. G3RRL That was hard work. G3RXQ What poor conditions. Is it worth doing an 80m evening contest in February ? G3SHF Thought contest had been cancelled! Can only get better. G3SNU Long skip killed it for me but nice to work PA ON DL etc G3SVL Ughh! Dreadful condx. Prize goes to steve, G3ZVW for persitence dragging my signal out of the noise. But then, neither of us had much else to do! G3SWC Long skip, lowest score ever! G3TKF That had to be the worst 80m conditions for the southern UK that i have experienced. G3VCA Very difficult to hear UK stations - rain static & long skip the main culprits - two Canadian stations called me to my suprise. 2 wave delta loop at the qth. G3VUS Condx here in N England were awful and few stations even heard. Condx can only get better. G3WRR I suspect this may not be the winning log... Heard no signals at all at first - thought i had got the wrong date or time....Finally heard GM3POI pounding in and finally made a few qsos. Not my finest hour. But nil desperandum SD worked impeccably..Roll on the cw event! G3WVG Tough going from s/e England G3YAJ Very very poor condx worked the ones i heard G3YHV Dreadful conditions - never heard anything like G3ZBU Conditions were very odd to say the least! It is as if the ionosphere had been thinned out so only low angle radiation gets reflected. I looked at the sunspot numbers and solar flare warnings but nothing posted! Seems there is some unknown effect caused by the sun??? G3ZGC Only GMs and Reading, Newbury, Swindon, Farnbourgh and many eu stations coming in. G3ZHE Dreadfull. The worst night ever in these 80m contests 100w, 756 pro3, 90ft doublet 30ft up G4ARN/P Terrible conditions G4BUO Worst conditions ever! G4BZP/P Very poor conditions & portable so finished early G4CKH Conditions awfull, very little in the way of inter g and eu signals. Some notable GM stations seemed to be doing ok but here in East Anglia it was dire. G4CYG Putting it politely the conditions were flat! G4DDX Truly awful but in a perverse way enjoyable and a great acheivment to get 15. The GM stations had it all their way with amazing scores for the conditions. Even the europeans were not taking part. G4EBK Cdnx far from good. Local stations up to 20 miles away and only four european worked. G4EOF Ughhhhhhhhh G4EZT Appalling conditions, 59+ power line noise, had to use noise canceller and blanker to hear anybody. Some stations could not hear me so they must have been even worse off! G4FAL Conditions at the start of the contest were as bad as they can possibly be; after that they deteriorated. G4FNL Dreadful condx for inter-G qso's. Almost gave up half way through. Perhaps we should start the 80m CC contests in March? G4FON At least nobody stole my frequency! G4HSU 0.8m asl antenna doublet 5m high part of Cray Valley RS entry G4IRN Dire conditions per inter-g working! G4JRY This again is to early to start the cc conditions as in all previous years were non existent. I can see a lot of operators not bothering next year G4LRP Band conditions great for dx! Not so good for contests. G4LWA Where was everyone? G4OGB Condx dreadful, only locals heard except 'POIi & 'YHV who couldn't hear me. SD worked fine. G4RCD What a contest! S9 noise throughout with very few G stations audible at all. Some GMs were loud and some continental staions were also loud but only a few were interested in our contest! It was interesting, but not much fun! G4RCG This was hard work, its too early in the year to have this test it should start in March and not Feb' even struggled to work some of the eu's G4VSS Rubbish conditions nice to chat to other club members gave up after 30 mins G4VXT Very hard work G4WGE There seems to be something about the conditions for first cc session of the year which is guaranteed to put newcomers off ever participating again. Dire conditions but jovial banter amongst my fellow club members made it a fun event! G1MHU Naff conditions G4ZFE Please cw contest first in february. Station - 100w and 40/80m trapped inverted l at 25 feet G5KC V poor inter G conditions. G6FSP The conditions were against the south west. Orkneys no problems but the rest of england helpppppppppppp G6UBM Thank goodness for Orkney!!!! G7PVZ Abysmal!!! Lots of noise, deep qsb, loud continentals and the propagation gods were smiling on GM! Will try again in the data and cw legs. G7SHG Very poor conditions 73's to all stations G7VRK Band very quirt was hard work. SD worked well as all ways G8FMJ/P Dreadful conditions struggled to work Gs should have gone portable in GM G8MIA Very long skip - no good for inter G G8MKO Worst conditions yet in nw England! G8YMW Feb lived down to its normal expectations again GD3YUM Poor conditions GM0ELP Hardly any G stations tonight. Some big signals from the continent. Very slow going and noisy. Was hoping for a repeat of the brilliant conditions from last Feb, but it was not to be hi. Thanks to all who worked me. GM0OQV Very hard going no G stations GM0WED Great fun again. Good to see that propogation was devolved; conditions made a change from the AFS! GW4BLE No comment ! M0ANM Conditions diabolical, only able to work local ground wave heard GM0HTT 59+ during first 15 mins of contest, but unable to make contact. M0CES Everyone apart from the French stn was in Lincoln or within 15 miles inc G3TBK no one else heard at all M0CNP Very very hard work, but enjoyable nonetheless! M0CUL A struggle hopefully better later in the year M0DWQ Too much noise M0ERA Orkney was easy, next square hard work. Looking forward to better condx. |
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