Radio Society of Great Britain. Official HF Contest Results
Results,
Low Power Contest 2009
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Conditions on 80m and 40m were variable this year, some stations
reported that conditions were good while other stations in other parts
of the UK had QRN and rain. Having a leisurely break at lunchtime
seems to be going down well, and many /P stations enjoyed eating al
fresco. Numbers were slightly down this year, some getting ready for IOTA and some falling foul to the QRN, not to mention the cows - Alan G4BLI. Congratulations to George G4EBK who wins the 1930 Committee Cup for Section A - 10W fixed. George used a new mode this year… “ESP”. Well - it certainly worked. In the 10W Portable - Section B, Lionel G5LP/P wins the Houston Fergus Trophy. The winner for the 3W fixed station Section C goes to Rob G4LMW and he will be awarded a new trophy - the impressive HFCC Trophy. Congratulations to Frank GM3JKS/P for winning the Southgate Trophy for the 3W Portable section - Section D, despite all those pesky midges. This being a QRP contest and working in noisy conditions, I would like to congratulate the following stations on their error free logs: G4ARI/P, G4OGB, G0MTN, G6CSY, M0BKH and 9A4LW. Increasing interest is shown by European stations and I thank you for your support. Check logs are gratefully acknowledged from G3VQO, G3WRR, G6OKU, G8MIA, M0OKT and YL3DX. Thank you to all who supported Low Power Field Day, see you next year. Dave Mason, G3RXP Soapbox. 9A4LWRU-20 Transceiver; 2W out DD1IM Ufb traffic in part 1, deep hole since starting the 2nd, frustrating loss of some stns due to qsb. But I love this terrific excercise for the ears - really nothing for the obviously growing community of "crocodile ops" in mni other tests, hi. DJ0YZ TS120V Doublet 30m up 8m DK5CS IC703 and Windomantenna used. G0MTN Nice activity - pity not more free time. G0ORH/P Condx were dreadful very noisy bands and heavy rain made qrp difficult. lot of op's were missing from the log looking at last years LPFD. Nice to work GU3TUX on 80m. Home built K2 10w radio 80/40m dipole 110amp leisure battery. G3JRM/P A nice relaxing day in the country even the weather was kind. Condx very noisey at the outset but cleared to a reasonable level after the first half an hour. We felt activity levels heard here seemed very much down on last year so in consequence finished early. G3LHJ Sunday morning was enjoyable nice to meet the regulars again condx could have been better for Qrp and 40M on Sunday afternoon went long skip and very boreing so took an hour off and watched the Golf !! CU next year G3LX/P Enjoyed the contest as usual change of pace welcome. But could do to have more activity in the afternoon. Add another band or be able to work all stations again after lunch. G3RSD Could only operate in the afternoon session. Found condx very noisy with lots of static G3VIP RIG IC7000 3W - 40M LW - Homebrew logger Plenty of /p stations. Good first session then big struggle in afternoon at times on 40m only station could hear was GM3BSQ/P at s9. Had to break couple of times rain static caused arcing in atu. Roll on some sunspots. G3VQO only two I heard !!! G3WRR Just popped on to give out a few points. Bands seemed very noisy and signals weak. So when next door turned on their plasma TV that was the end of it! G3ZGC 10w from IC7700 to wire wrapped in garden. Not a serious effort this year. Too busy packing for IOTA! G4ARI/P Portable QTH - RISE ROCKS NGR SK473121 NR MARKFIELD WX fine in morning but torrential rain all afternoon. Long 40m skip better suited to GMs. Very enjoyable as usual. Nice to have a lunch break & picnic with family G4BLI/P Atrocious Dartmoor weather and cows trying to knock down the antenna and chew the feeder gave rise to considerable distruption for a sole operator!!! But I'll be back again next year. Please keep this excellent contest!! G4DBW Elecraft K3 running at 3 watts RF out G5RV dipole at 20 feet agl. G4DDX/P The normal heavy rain and strong winds gave some alarm but no problems this year.Operated from my car. Conditions seemed poor and little band noise but qrm from rain on car Hi. Used paper logging as running off battery. Input into SD as usual. G4EBK Very noisy here again no doubt many errors from QSB and esp guesswork. Intended to go portable this but changed mind when checked the Wx forecast. Pleased I didn't go out many heavy showers throughout the day. G4FNL My first entry in LP Field Day. Suprisingly good signal strength from the QRP stns. I couldn't be active for the whole contest so hopefully I won't be too near the bottom of the scores with just 45 Q's G4KZD/P Station located in Norfolk G4LMW Appalling conditions. Grateful to the stations that appeared towards the end to give some points away. G4OGB Poor condx suggest entrants can work each other again in the second half. G4RQI/P Plenty of activity in the first session but pretty dire for the second. G5BK/P 40m went all long skip in the afternoon. o.k. if you're a GM! G5LP/P Enjoyable as usual, operated /P from near to Minstead in the New Forest - dry, sunny but very windy - was in danger of losing the fibre glass pole and W3DZZ several times in the gales G6CSY Only 20 minutes available. Where was the 80m activity though? Surprised no QRO stations on 40m. G6NUM heavy and deep QSB in 1st part seemlingly far less stations on in 2nd part constant rain showers caused much QRM from nearby HV power lines managed to work everyone I could hear and improved on last years score GM3BSQ/P Back to Walker Pk this year no storm force winds. Odd showers but nice day. Sea on three sides which means a nice take off. Station including laptop all battery powered GM3JKS/P<div class="moz-text-flowed" style="font-family: -moz-fixed">9A4LW RU-20 Transceiver; 2W out DD1IM Ufb traffic in part 1, deep hole since starting the 2nd, frustrating loss of some stns due to qsb. But I love this terrific excercise for the ears - really nothing for the obviously growing community of "crocodile ops" in mni other tests, hi. Tu all ops & rsgb 4 the test, vy 73/55, gl es cwfe de Sascha DD1IM (member of DARC, DOK K27) DJ0YZ TS120V Doublet 30m up 8m DK5CS IC703 and Windomantenna used. EI7GY/P Note I gave serial 033 twice There are 2 Dupes in the log Dupe1 = G4EBK @ 13 Dupe2 = DF7IS/P @ 13 G0MTN Nice activity - pity not more free time. G0ORH/P Condx were dreadful very noisy bands and heavy rain made qrp difficult. lot of op's were missing from the log looking at last years LPFD. Nice to work GU3TUX on 80m. Home built K2 10w radio 80/40m dipole 110amp leisure battery. ken..G0ORH G3EAO/P Apologies for being late,I submitted my log twice to lowpower.logs@rsgbhfcc.org as specified in my copy of the rules dated 18/06/2009. I hope it is of some use for cross-checking, 72/73, Don G3EAO. G3JRM/P A nice relaxing day in the country even the weather was kind. Condx very noisey at the outset but cleared to a reasonable level after the first half an hour. We felt activity levels heard here seemed very much down on last year so in consequence finished early. G3LHJ Sunday morning was enjoyable nice to meet the regulars again condx could have been better for Qrp and 40M on Sunday afternoon went long skip and very boreing so took an hour off and watched the Golf !! CU next year 73 de Derrick G3LHJ. G3LX/P Enjoyed the contest as usual change of pace welcome. But could do to have more activity in the afternoon. Add another band or be able to work all stations again after lunch. G3RSD Could only operate in the afternoon session found condx very noisy with lots of static G3VIP RIG IC7000 3W - 40M LW - Homebrew logger Plenty of /p stations. Good first session then big struggle in afternoon at times on 40m only station could hear was GM3BSQ/P at s9. Had to break couple of times rain static caused arcing in atu. Roll on some sunspots. G3VQO only two I heard !!! G3WRR Just popped on to give out a few points. Bands seemed very noisy and signals weak. So when next door turned on their plasma TV that was the end of it! G3ZGC 10w from IC7700 to wire wrapped in garden. Not a serious effort this year. Too busy packing for IOTA! QSO 025 was with G3XMM but overran so not logged. G4ARI/P Portable QTH - RISE ROCKS NGR SK473121 NR MARKFIELD WX fine in morning but torrential rain all afternoon Long 40m skip better suited to GMs Very enjoyable as usual Nice to have a lunch break & picnic with family G4BLI/P Atrocious Dartmoor weather and cows trying to knock down the antenna and chew the feeder gave rise to considerable distruption for a sole operator!!! But I'll be back again next year. Please keep this excellent contest!! G4DBW Elecraft K3 running at 3 watts RF out G5RV dipole at 20 feet agl. G4DDX/P The normal heavy rain and strong winds gave some alarm but no problems this year.Operated from my car. Conditions seemed poor and little band noise but qrm from rain on car Hi. Used paper logging as running off battery. Input into SD as usual. G4EBK Very noisy here again no doubt many errors from QSB and esp guesswork. Intended to go portable this but changed mind when checked the Wx forecast. Pleased I didn't go out many heavy showers throughout the day. G4FNL My first entry in LP Field Day. Suprisingly good signal strength from the QRP stns. I couldn't be active for the whole contest so hopefully I won't be too near the bottom of the scores with just 45 Q's G4KZD/P Station located in Norfolk G4LMW Appalling conditions. Grateful to the stations that appeared towards the end to give some points away. G4OGB Poor condx suggest entrants can work each other again in the second half. SD worked fine. G4RQI/P Plenty of activity in the first session but pretty dire for the second. G5BK/P 40m went all long skip in the afternoon. o.k. if you're a GM! G5LP/P Enjoyable as usual, operated /P from near to Minstead in the New Forest - dry, sunny but very windy - was in danger of losing the fibre glass pole and W3DZZ several times in the gales G6CSY Only 20 minutes available. Where was the 80m activity though? Surprised no QRO stations on 40m. G6NUM heavy and deep QSB in 1st part seemlingly far less stations on in 2nd part constant rain showers caused much QRM from nearby HV power lines managed to work everyone I could hear and improved on last years score GM3BSQ/P Back to Walker Pk this year no storm force winds Odd showers but nice day. Sea on three sides which means a nice take off Station including laptop all battery powered GM3JKS/P Better condx than last time(2007) but as usual not enough stations active. Greater promotion is needed M0HWC/P Station located near Ware Herts M0OKT IC756PROiii @ 10W G5RV M3WCK Started as a disaster and quickly got worse. Naively thought that my 750mW /P on QRP frequency would provide some contacts. Blamed Rig /antenna and everything within earshot -- just a few cows so no lasting damage in the neighbourhood. On returning home found no activity around 3.560 and the band in pretty poor shape. Well theres next year!! YL3DX IC-756PROIII 100W; ANT VERTICAL R7000+. some QSO with QRP stations. During the second part there was huge thunderstorm with flashes and cats and dogs rain. So no chance for QSO. 73 & DX! Alec |
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