Radio Society of Great Britain. Official HF. Contest Results.
Results - AFS SSB 2008 - Individual + Team Listings.
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TROPHIES (*) Flight Refuelling Trophy - Leading team - Lichfield ARS Lichfield Trophy - Leading single-operator individual station - D Beattie, G3BJCHECKLOGS:
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MU0FAL G7RTI G3SET RN3RQ UA3LHL GM3SVW ADJUDICATOR'S COMMENTS For many stations, it was the best SSB AFS in a long time. Individual winner Don G3BJ ended with a final total of 464 good QSOs, shattering previous 400+ QSO records set by Andy G4PIQ in the mid-1990’s. G0AAA in second place, operated by Ian G3WVG also broke the elusive 400 QSO barrier – well done. Whilst the contest is often berated as being a “Midlands QSO Party”, the top 20 stations comprise entrants from the South East and South West of England, Wales, and two from Scotland including Clive GM3POI in Orkney. The combination of antenna system, operating skill, location and indeed luck all contribute to higher scores – a great example of where it all came together this year is Bob M3RCV who notched up 200 QSOs with 10 watts. Many stations, from all parts of the UK, commented on the high levels of QRM which is sadly unavoidable with the level of interest the contest attracts each year. In the refreshed team competition, now with 4 entrants per team for both CW and SSB AFS events, many time winners Lichfield ARS win the Flight Refuelling ARS trophy, with the DeMontfort University and Bristol CG following. Log checking again revealed a large spread in the accuracy of submitted logs, which cost some stations several places. Also, small penalties have been applied to stations monitored by the contest committee who were found to operating outside of the frequency band specified in the rules, or making contest contacts before the contest began. Thanks to everyone who took part. Lee G0MTN SOAPBOX: 2E0TBV Really enjoyed Contest new Logging Prog. required! 2E0XIS suffering from high VSWR mainly worked Search & pounce 2E1GUA Good fun G0AAA A great way to spend four hours on a Saturday afternoon! G0ADH So many stations - So little space - Hard work at times G0DVJ Good activity levels. Deliberate jamming by anti-contester for 45 mins. Plenty of european stations in last hour. G0EVT Plenty of active stations G0EYR Good session SD worked well! G0GFQ Better than last year, but I don't think the vertical is exactly suited to inter G activity G0GRI Getting used to using SD G0HSA Nice to make 100 qso's in a first attempt at this contest. Will definitely have a go next time around G0HVQ My first time is AFS, very enjoyable. G0KDS About 80/90W to a wire antenna at 7m. Band was noise free until last 45 mins then 5/9+20 blanket of hiss covered most of it. Enjoyed it more, usually run QRP G0KYA Tough with 10W and indoor antenna! A lot of QRM towards the end. G0KYS Managed to hold a frequency for the first three hours - a first for me! Wasn't always productive though The skip appeared to go long in the last 20 minutes with GMs and DLs only worked. G0LHZ Slow in 2nd half G0LOC An experience! G0MRH Conditions were very poor for most of the time which didn't help when I only had a few minutes at the end of the contest to make a few contacts. On the good side it was nice to work an unexpected number of stations in Scotland. G0NQZ Rig - FT897D 100W. Ant - G5RV G0OKF As ever at my location - noisy. Worked more that I expected. SD worked as ever =without fault= the operator did not. G0RXA Joined in at the very last minute and managed to spend a few hours helping my team. G0UAI Rig - TS50 100W. Ant - G5RV G0UGO SD failure with Windows Vista so had to retype everything into this!! G0VBT Very noisy at this QTH First time using SD very good. Yes enjoyed it very good G0VDZ Mayhem as usual. Did not score as well as last year. But still good fun G0VFW Transceiver IC-756 PRO O/P 100 Watts. Antenna G5RV at 12M G0VYR Wall to wall noise G1BHR wall to wall contacts just difficult to sort them out G1RNZ Used SD logger worked very well. G3GJW Sounded busy my handicap being I could not check for dupes on a PC. G3HEJ SD was very good for post logging G3JIR First entry in AFS SSB G3JJZ RIG - IC756 PRO III 100Watts. ANTENNAS - 85' 50 in the first hour, but only 42 in the other 3. It just went from bad to worse! G3LHJ Hard work breaking through the wall of central UK QRM but it was fun - condx went a bit funny at the last half hour of contest - lots of activity and loud noises from the big boys CU next year 73 Derrick G3LIK Start was good but towards the end condtions changed with only the Scottish stations being heard Great to use SD for logging G3LVP Equipment TS 850, 400W, Inverted V trap dipole @ 30ft. Band conditions, Bedlam! G3NPF Usual wall-to-wall QRM with some HUGE signals, some of which were rather wide. G3PHO A very hectic affair. Our first club entry in this contest. Will do again! G3RCM Band was in good shape with plenty of activity, some very strong signals around. Running with a FT2000, 100 watts to a trap dipole for 80 and 40m Logging with Wintest. G3RRL Plenty of stations good conditions should have worked more. G3RSD used sd great G3RXQ K2+ KW1000 400W. Doublet at 40'. 2 x Pennant Receive Antennas. WinTest G3SNU As usual very enjoyable G3SVD A very good contest, lots and lots of GMs and plenty of stations from the G3TBK My highest ever score but still not good enough. Dipole at 70 ft. G3TKF A natural break 45mins before the end was my undoing - lost the run frequency and then all went down hill. G3TXF Keeping up the momentum on SSB for even four hours is quite a battle. Claimed score is over 40 Q's down on last year. Must shout louder! G3UFY RIG - FT1000MP + Ranger 811H. ANTENNAS - Dipole G3UJE Poor first hour due to 3720 region being jam packed with QRM. Rate picked up a bit after that. Enjoyable contest though. G3UKV First time achieved 100 QSOs in an hour ever ! What a racket (or is that racquet ?!). Usual skip change esp. lat half hour. Gs faded right out. Most enjoyable - many old friends QSOd G3VCA Stations working less than 1 KHz apart. Not good for headaches or working weak stations. Had to stop afer two hours. G3VIP RIG IC7000, 25W, INV V dipole. What a struggle with low power, some rubbish signals. G3VYI SD great nice condx. Worked lots of favourites going up and down band !! Good to hear some new calls G3WQK Rig - TS690 100W. Ant - Long Wire G3WRR Don't like the SSB event - hard work. A tiny antenna like mine simply isn't competitive! Skip went very long in the last hour G3WWS Rig FT990 - 100W. Ant 33' inverted-L G3YAJ VERY NOISY G3YEC Had family so operating tine curtailed and frequent interupted by questions ! G3YOA Good contest except last hour when another contest started G3ZBU Aerial needs to be a fair bit higher. G3ZGC IC775DSP 200w to 132 ft wire wrapped into 55 ft garden. Less chaos than last year. Less noise. But I prefer CW! G3ZHE 59+20 qrm all the time here. 756pro3 with 300w linear. 90ft doublet 30ft up. Hard work during last hour G3ZVW Got rather squeezed towards the end, but managed to maintain a decent rate. G4CUS An enjoyable contest as usual despite the QRM! G4CWH I'm sure that the band didn't always used to close to G towards the end as it seems now to do. Another effect of atmospheric polution? Useful timing with continental contest added to score quite a bit. G4CYG Enjoyed contest for small time available. Post-contest logged by G0MRH G4DDX Very busy and lots of loud signals. Shows up my poor aerial. Lost my voice about 1700 and when I tried again at 1745 the skip had changed to useless. Used SD as usual, could not manage without it. G4EBK Not my favourite mode as reflected by my low score. First two hours not bad then cdnx went down hill. G4EOF QRM - Headache - but really enjoyable as ever. G4FBS Good activity. SD performed well as usual. G4FNL Activity seemed much higher than for the CW contest that was on the previous weekend. I used SD for logging. Thanks to all for the QSOs G4KLF used sd for first time instead of a paper log. it was a great help and i enjoyed it once i got used to it. found conditions down compared to cw contest a week previous Had problems with my ant and could not load properly so wasnt able to really get into contest. very G4OGB SD IS GREAT G4RCD Operated from Appleby-In-Westmorland, at the QTH of my Dad, G3JYP. I was late into the shack, and missed the first few minutes. Interesting to experience the difference in propogation from Cumbria, compared with my home QTH in Hampshire. G4RCG Great fun, with lots of stations coming on. Managed to keep my run frequency even though I had music played over me and several other attempted jammers. Lots of M3's and 2E's as well which was good. Once the daylight went lots of EU's came on to give points which was a bonus G4VUD very noisy conditions, loads of continental stations G4WGE Utter pandemonium. Finding a run frequency was virtually impossible. It seemed to be a case of finding of spot of tolerable QRM! Lets hope AFS doesn't get more popular. G6AY Part time entry (just over two hours) to support the 3As team. G6fop Very Busy Contest, G7VRK All was going well until the QRM started & band got very noisy as darkness fell but enjoyed very much see you all next year G8VHI I had QRM for over 1 hour at 59+++ sending in CW Test. or sending me back to myself. It killed my score! GM0ELP Who would have thought you could have so much fun on 80m during the day. Brilliant fun in a very competative contest. Worked all over the UK and out into the EU in the last couple of hours. Not as good conditions for GM as it was last year, but Qs came steadily throughout. Thanks to all who worked me. GM3GKJ Nice to take part in the AFS again. Due to various reasons missed 2006 & 2007. GM3JKS Found it difficult to penetrate the morass of stations. Too many stations for the available band space GM3SVW These QSOs were made by a one-man expedition and were intended as a check-log, but someone has to prop up the bottom of the table. Include in the list if the log comes out OK. SD would not produce a .LOG file so suspect my Cabrillo GM3WIJ Very hard going indeed. Antenna needs improving for 80M contesting GM3WOJ First hour dire, then things improved ! 73 GM3WUX Conditions not a s Good as last year. The band didn't seem to open up anywhere like as well. GM4BKV Good contest - very hard going though. GM4GVK Only running 5W so conditions very difficult. Finished early GM4OBD Conditions seemed one-sided. Many stations heard at good strength but they had difficulty in copying. SD worked faultlessly which is more than can be said for the operator!!! GM8MHU Happy wth SD - pity about conditions - Hard going. GW4FCV 20DBw - Trap Dipole M0AFJ Great fun pity about unexpected visitors after 2 Hrs M0BPQ Bedlam! Not much fun with 100w, only time I tried to run I got QRMd by SSTTV from DL. Gave up after 100 QSOs as S&P had hit its limit... IC 756Pro, dipole, 100W M0CNP Conditions for the last hour were very poor but overall the contest was very enjoyable though disappointed with my personal score M0DHO Nice to see so much activity. QRM was amazing at times. Hard to find or keep a clear frequency. M0FRH Use SD as always brilliant. Thank you to all who worked me. M0GAV Poor start to the year but things can only get better!! M0GHQ Thanks for the good fun 73 M0GNW First attempt at AFS on 80m. First attempt at using SD M0JEC Had to work late and joined the contest only for the dying minutes. M0JQK First time I have used it and found it very good. Really enjoyed the contest. I will be using all the time for future contests M0MCX Band died 30 minutes from time - or was it my brain? Great fun as always, thanks for the ride :) M0OXO 1st Entry in AFS and had a great time great coditions for the first couple of hours then it all just died on me M0PTO Operated from G3PDH'S shack. M0RBG Good conditions, SD great help M0RHS First attempt with new radio hope to improve with time M0RNE Only on air for first 30 minutes M0SDT First time doing a contest and also using 80m with wire. I would normally use my beam in which 17m is my best band. it was an enjoyable event since I have not used my radio in about 6 months. Hope to do better next time M0SPC Frantic as always great fun M0TIF Very enjoyable well done to all organisers. M0XJP very enjoyable contest Condx changed noticably during last hour and very noisy M1PTR Gets the contest season off to a great start. Thoroughly enjoyed it! M3ENF Rig - FT847 10W. Ant - G5RV M3NLK Enjoyed the contest. Hope to take part next year. Found SD very good. M3RCV Amazed at the Q total with only 10w (from a 1000MP), but Inter-G conditions were very, very good until about an hour from the end. Tnx to all those who worked me. M3UOW My first contest. I really enjoyed it! M3XYD This is a first ever contest entry M3YOM This was my first contest, had a great time. Lots of fun. MM0BCR I found SD very easy to use MM0BHX 100 Watts and a bit of wire is not enough for this contest. Enjoyed participating never the less ! MM0DFZ SD easy to use MM0GPZ Running an inverted L wasn't the best for the test, but have to make do. Conditions got better all the way through and I was enjoying it at the end and made 79 Q's in last hour, my best hour. I''ll definitely have a dipole for next year. Roll on 80m CC. MM0ROV A challenging contest but enjoyed the experience. MM5AHO worked all I heard over local noise level of S9 |