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Results - SSB Field Day 2009

Open Section			qs	ms	qs	ms	qs	ms	qs	ms	qs	ms
Pos	Group	Call	3.5		7		14		21		28		QSOs	Points	Mults	Final Score
1	Cray Valley RS	G3RCV/P	274	25	346	39	507	60	44	28	17	10	1188	4385	162	710370
2	East Notts CG	G3TBK/P	366	29	430	37	465	54	40	22	12	6	1313	4696	148	695008
3	DoubleX-Ray Firm	M0XXT/P	304	28	379	40	243	48	30	12	8	5	964	3714	133	493962
4	Buchan CG	MM0AOQ/P	212	19	438	30	436	47	21	14	1	1	1108	3995	111	443445
5	Oxford & DARS	G8PX/P	260	22	276	39	255	46	44	17	2	2	837	3216	126	405216
6	Bittern DX Group	G6IPU/P	402	25	454	38	96	25	21	11	6	2	979	3564	101	359964
7	Norfolk ARC	G8QR/P	304	22	299	32	216	44	26	12	0	0	845	3131	110	344410
8	Sheffield ARC	G2AS/P	302	24	341	27	174	42	25	12	1	1	843	3230	106	342380
9	Hadley Wood CG	M0HWC/P	253	21	223	26	190	41	23	16	11	3	700	2776	107	297032
10	Wisbech AR & EC	M5ARC/P	325	23	262	31	149	33	18	10	2	2	756	2883	99	285417
11	Lincoln SWC	G5FZ/P	317	23	285	30	204	34	0	0	0	0	806	2922	87	254214
12	Hornsea ARC	G5GX/P	212	16	289	27	125	32	22	16	3	2	651	2583	93	240219
13	Stockport RS	G3LX/P	193	16	271	29	221	29	23	11	2	2	710	2754	87	239598
14	Worcester RAA	M0ZOO/P	63	7	133	19	343	50	26	18	11	4	576	2152	98	210896
15	Blackwood & DARS	GW6GW/P	153	13	226	24	137	35	19	13	4	4	539	2200	89	195800
16	Northampton RC	G3GWB/P	215	20	160	22	71	28	24	15	0	0	470	2018	85	171530
17	South Derby & Ashby Wolds	G0SRC/P	137	15	161	22	103	29	15	7	0	0	416	1631	73	119063
18	Macclesfield & DRS	G4MWS/P	141	13	195	22	49	22	12	8	5	1	402	1718	66	113388
19	Clifton ARS	G3GHN/P	167	19	69	17	61	29	13	9	0	0	310	1249	74	92426
20	Havering & DARC	G4HRC/P	256	15	183	23	19	10	2	2	1	1	461	1732	51	88332
21	Darenth Valley RS	G0KDV/P	34	9	9	7	327	38	10	7	0	0	380	1307	61	79727
22	York RC	G4YRC/P	14	4	17	6	10	9	0	0	0	0	41	186	19	3534
Restricted Section
Pos	Group	Call	Q	M	Q	M	Q	M	Q	M	Q	M	QSOs	Pts	Mult	Total
1	Bristol CG	G6YB/P	243	23	337	35	308	46	34	18	7	6	929	3571	128	457088
2	Blaenau Dwr [single op]	MW1LCR/P	214	25	350	35	251	43	48	17	26	7	889	3334	127	423418
3	Granta CG	M0CAM/P	233	22	209	34	102	35	35	15	8	3	587	2476	109	269884
4	[single op]	M0UTD/P	155	12	183	24	201	39	37	15	5	2	581	2256	92	207552
5	Reading & DARC	G3ULT/P	326	21	223	28	52	21	16	8	4	2	621	2569	80	205520
6	Worthing & District ARC	G3WOR/P	257	22	162	25	57	24	21	11	1	1	498	2096	83	173968
7	RAFARS	G8FC/P	137	13	163	31	43	21	11	7	2	2	356	1610	74	119140
8	Scarborough ARS	G4BP/P	266	18	165	20	36	19	2	2	0	0	469	1941	59	114519
9	Lowestoft District & Pye ARC	G3JRM/P	292	17	117	20	42	20	12	8	5	2	468	1700	67	113900
10	Kilmarnock & Loudoun ARC	MM0KLR/P	73	10	330	26	43	21	3	3	0	0	449	1841	60	110460
11	Three As CG	GI0AAA/P	96	9	165	15	101	30	0	0	0	0	362	1538	54	83052
12	Chesham & DARS	G3MDG/P	201	18	163	15	32	16	0	0	0	0	396	1619	49	79331
13	Worthing Radio Events Group	M0REG/P	203	17	95	17	34	20	0	0	1	1	333	1384	55	76120
14	West Kent ARS	G1WKS/P	165	15	64	14	65	23	3	3	3	2	300	1293	57	73701
15	Basingstoke ARC	G8JYN/P	112	12	62	20	46	20	0	0	0	0	220	1014	52	52728
16	[single op]	G4DPF/P	108	12	31	10	69	30	0	0	0	0	208	938	52	48776
17	Echelford ARS	G3UES/P	53	10	106	16	34	17	1	1	1	1	195	829	45	37305
18	Stourbridge & DARS	G6OI/P	111	11	49	9	26	15	8	6	0	0	194	898	41	36818
19	Aberdeen ARS	GM3BSQ/P	75	11	112	13	13	9	1	1	2	1	203	892	35	31220
20	Dragon ARC	GW4TTA/P	83	9	92	16	17	8	0	0	0	0	192	906	33	29898
21	Poldhu ARS	G3MPD/P	36	7	130	13	41	17	0	0	0	0	207	804	37	29748
22	Dudley & DARS	M0RSD/P	110	11	79	12	6	4	0	0	0	0	195	867	27	23409
23	Kidderminster & DARS	G6KRC/P	27	8	72	10	26	13	0	0	0	0	125	574	31	17794
24	Reading & DARC B	G3AKF/P	23	5	43	12	16	12	1	1	1	1	84	391	31	12121
25	Bolton Wireless Club	G0BWC/P	29	6	14	2	17	8	0	0	0	0	60	258	16	4128

Checklogs:

G3TXF G3VAO G3VQO G6CSY G7RTI GA4GRC/P M0RYB M5ALG MA0BQI/P MA0DXH MU0GSY 9A2QF AB2TC/VE3 DK1ROB EB2DJB/P HA7PL HA8ZE HG8C K3ZO SO9G TA1HZ YO7DEK


There was a good turnout this year for SSB Field Day with 47 stations entering. A total of 220 operators took part from the UK, no doubt with many others that helped with putting the stations together, catering, etc.  Weather conditions were reported to be reasonably good this year, which compensates a little for the poor band conditions.

Both sections of the contest were very closely contested at the top.  In the end the winners and runners-up were the same as last year. It was especially close in the Open Section where Cray Valley RS, G3RCV/P, scraped into first place ahead of East Notts CG, G3TBK/P.  This was due to a higher Multiplier total and slightly better log accuracy, as their overall QSO total was lower. In the Restricted Section Bristol CG, G6YB/P, were just ahead of Adrian Rees, MW1LCR/P who ran as a Single-op station.

In addition to the UK logs, a total of 380 logs were available from other IARU Region 1 countries who were participating in their own Field Day events.  This allowed approx 60% of QSOs to be cross-checked.

Alan Hydes, G3XSV



SOAPBOX:

G0BWC/P
Operating Club Station at Smithills Hall Museum from at tent in a rather muddy field!

G0KDV/P
Shame it clashed with ALL ASIA contest.

G1WKS/P
The first NDF for the club in many years. Great fun had by all on the team. We will be back next year bigger and better.

G2AS/P
Scores down this year maybe due to the very poor conditions on 15 and 10m.  However it was a most enjoyable weekend especially as we had 19 helpers to set up and 14 to take down! The lack of rain (for a change) was also a help! Gear and 80m inverted V dipoles at 80ft. As usual we tried to let as many people as possible have a go and so sacrificed the scoring rate at times but it was a very
sociable event neverthless.We also ran the 144MHz Trophy Contest in parallel the same location to give everyone something to do!

G3GWB/P
Problems with generator and tribander meant we kicked off 2 hours late! Thanks to Richard G6TVB Graham M0GCR Ian G1BHR and Keith G7HLP for their valuable assistance over the weekend.

G3JRM/P
Very enjoyable weekend for all concerned operators and helpers alike. Combined the contesting with our annual club BBQ. There was so much food left over from Sat'day that we extended the BBQ to the sunday lunchtime. HF band conditions seemed poor but the WX was good.

G3MDG/P
IC-756PRO + Doublet @ 10.5M AGL

G3MPD/P
The event was run six 105A/H batteries in parallell which powered the rig, laptop and night time lighting The Radioworks windom 160 was at a hight of 10 meters in an east / west direction. The only problems with SD was how to edit entries so a button to a pop up window with minimal commands would help

G3RCV/P
Not able to pile on the volume of QSOs this time but at least we we were prepared and had a wireless internet connection so that we could pick up cluster spots. Once again very little separates our score from G3TBK/P. Many thanks to the club members who helped out - 2E0BUU M6MER M0KAZ G8ITB M0KSJ M0CRY G4HSU G4WNF 2E0LOAG G4DFI G4JED

G3TBK/P
Good stateside runs on 20 & 40. Very slow in small hours after 40m closed. Bobtail gave good results into N America. FT1000MP HL-1K AMP. 400 WATTS. 80M DIPOLE AND 40M DIPOLE @ 70 FEET
40M DIPOLE @ 33 FEET 40M BOBTAIL TH7 @ 60 FEET

G3UES/P
If it could go wrong it did. ATU decided it did not want to work. £ ATU's later we were on the air. We did not have the couplers for the poles, so a tree was used. Aeriel only up at about 25 foot. Still I did have fun in the end

G3ULT/P
Great weather for contesting. Not to cold and no rain. A good turn out from the members helping to set up and take down the stations. See you next year.

G3WOR/P
Enjoyable Contest but activity seemed a little lower to us. Hard going on 15m & 10m in the Restricted section. We joined forces with a neighbouring club and ended up with 11 Ops!  We used this contest as a base to build up our experience. Thanks to all for the QSOs

G4BP/P
Conditions were difficult and noisy however our new contesters Intermediate licence holders enjoyed the experience and hopefully will be back next year which was one of the objects of the contest for this club

G4DPF/P
shame same date as all asia contest used ei5sd logger great !!

G4HRC/P
lots of activity and fine weather

G4MWS/P
TS570D FT857 100W
Tri-band Beam G5RV Skyloop Crushcraft R6 All equipment worked! Weather - near perfect HF was hard work with All Asia contest

G4YRC/P
QTH on the edge of Dalby Forest not ideal but OK Decided to take part 48h before the event Highlight was the lunch cooked over an open fire Downloaded SD night before and it worked first time out

G5FZ/P
Contest Result dedicated to our friend Colin G3MUL ( silent key ) Radio FT1000 PA  Linear Amp UK Aerials
Triband beam 10,15,20 mtrs plus dipoles

G5GX/P
Wet setting up on Friday - Condx poor to start the contest with long skip. It got much better on Sunday. with 10/15m opening nicely. WX was nice in East Yorkshire on Saturday & Sunday. SD as always performed well.

G6IPU/P
New site high good take off every thing seemed to go to plan. One or two ops did
not make it due to families, but it's the best we've ever done. See you all next
year

G6KRC/P
Inadvertantly worked 7 stations on top band, unable to correct this in the log, sorry. Enjoyable weekend, fine weather, but we could have done with more operators.

G6OI/P
Do not do the night shift after giving blood the week before

G6YB/P
This must have been the worst HF conditions of all time.  At least the weather was kind to us.

G8JYN/P
In memory of Alan Stables G8FMH who passed away a couple of weeks ago a gentleman and a gentle man much admired within the club and a great loss.  Poor conditions at start improved slightly 10M empty. So frustrating that there are so many other stations to work but they only want to work Asia.  Lovely WX good company good fun hard work!

G8QR/P
A very enjoyable 24 hours, used contest to introduce new operators to contesting. They proved that it is not necessary to be a die hard contester to turn out good results, many thanks to 2E0GOL M6BWA 2E0DRT 2E0YFO M6JZU M0PUD and M0HUG for joining our team. May they stay with us for the CC's next year. Well done to you all.

GI0AAA/P
It was a one-man part-time effort operating from a hire car on Rathlin Island. 100W from an Icom 706 in the glovebox and a dipole on an 8m pole.  

GM3BSQ/P
The weather as always at this location is a major consideration. This year after a wet setup period was kind to us with virtullay no wind sunshine through the day and moonlit by night.

GW4TTA/P
Here I sit broken hearted,Did my best but never really got started!!!!

GW6GW/P
Great time nice to see the club back into contesting

M0CAM/P
This year we had a better antenna suffice to say that this is an 80ft rotatable monster doublet with homebrew remote balanced tuner. We also refined the 'big-knob/little-knob' operation on the FT2000 so that the spotter could make Q's instead of just passing them to the run op. This makes the spotter's job much more inclusive and interesting. Creates the odd argument about who gets the transmitter though! We had no DXCluster this year (too much effort).We were very happy to have Phil M0DEG as guest op. Hopefully he enjoyed the
experience! We set the tower and antenna up on the Friday but actually this went together really quickly and we needn't have taken 1/2-day holiday. Tear-down took 1 hour 10 mins. That's the fastest ever for us. A bit strange to be mowing the lawn at home by 5pm!
Propagation wasn't brilliant at the start and the going was very slow. Things only really picked up once we started moving LF towards the evening. We were behind the leaders at this point but then started to gain some ground. We're not sure we made up this deficit by the end. We're rather hoping the multiplier score is good! It was a surprise to find 15m open quite early on the Sunday morning and even more of a surprise to find 10m open at 9

M0HWC/P
Used new Flex3000 for the first time. Steppir beam 40m vertical and 80m folded dipole. Very slow start but the pace picked up after a couple of hours. All operators enjoyed S&P and the excellent filters of the Flex3000. Not our best effort but an enjoyable contest nonetheless.

M0REG/P
SD saved the day as usual!

M0UTD/P
very difficult with All Asia Contest but fun

M0XXT/P
No failures but hard work again. Need more height, more gain and better something, certainly.. possibly operators! :)

M0ZOO/P
First time from a new spot. Great location but awful weekend. 2 op's went home early due to illness and contest manager broke his arm

M5ARC/P
Low contest activity by all operators and station problems put us in a very difficult position, didn't go anywhere near as well as it should, anyway was fun to have a play again.

MM0AOQ/P
The biggest problem this year was actually getting into the site due to heavy rain. Dissapointed that 15 and 20 not as good as last year but a very enjoyable weekend as always  looking forward to next year.

MW1LCR/P
New improved aerial system this year, seems to have worked OK. Still fell asleep for two hours though !

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