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RSGB Contest Results Commonwealth Contest 2016   
v4.158 by G4CLA

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The 79th Commonwealth contest attracted another bumper entry of 270 stations, comprising 56 Open assisted, 81 Open unassisted, 24 Restricted assisted , 76 Restricted unassisted,and 3 Multi-op. Additionally 5  HQ stations were kindly active to give away the HQ bonus points. 16 Teams were formed to enter into the team competition, from Australia, Canada, the UK, the Mediterranean, the Caribbean, Africa and New Zealand. Travellers visited  5X, A2, C6, ZL,  J3,  J7, VY2, VO1, VP9, and ZF .

Entries were received from 5X ,9H,9J2, 9M6, 9V1, A2, C4, C6, G, GI GM GW ,J3, J7, T32, V5, VE1-7,9, VK2,3,4,6,7,VO1, 2  ,VP9, VY2, VU, ZL1,2,3,4,5,6, ZB2, ZF, ZS1,ZS5.

The following call areas were active but did not enter logs; 3B8, 3B9,3DA0, 4S7, 5B4, 5Z0,6Y, 8P6, 8Q7, 9H1, 9M2,  9V1 , A3, C6, V3, V44,V85 , VP8.

There were 148 UK entries, 56 VE, 19 VK, 13 ZL, 6 VU, and 18 other areas .This compares very well with last year, especially the ZL and VK entry.

This year many entrants found poor conditions on the higher bands at the start, due to a high initial solar A index , caused by a solar event that occurred the previous day. Conditions on 10m and 15m were well down on previous year, as expected with the solar cycle in decline, but  80m and 40m were in relatively good condition this year. However 20m was disappointing overnight . The African stations still  reported poor HF conditions and suffered noise problems also. More information is available from G3PJT s BERU website at  https://berucontest.wordpress.com/

The leader of the  Open unassisted section and winner of the Senior Rose Bowl is  Jeff  Briggs VY2ZM, narrowly ahead of  Ron Van der Kraats CJ3T (VE3AT), and  Dave Goodwin VE9CB ( ex VO1AU ) in third.

The top UK entrant Open unassisted section entry and winner of the Colonel Thomas Rose Bowl is again Don Beattie G3BJ.

The leader of the Restricted unassisted section and winner of the Junior Rose Bowl, is again traveller Bob Whelan J34G (G3PJT), followed again by Mike Franklin VP9/G3VYI, then Peter Hobbs  VO1LET (G3LET) , this year in the Restricted section.

The top UK Restricted unassisted entry and winner of the John Dunnington trophy is Bryan Turner G3RLE.

The top UK 12 hours duration unassisted entry and Ross Carey Rose Bowl winner is Dave Aslin G3WGN.

The top non UK 12hrs duration unassisted entry and winner of the VP8GQ trophy is Roger Parsons VE3ZI.

The leading 5W QRP station is Mike Smith VE9AA, who also wins the Lilliput Trophy for unassisted QRP entries, with G3YMC second.

The leading Restricted single operator assisted certificate  goes to Frank Davis VO1HP, followed by G6M (G4BYG) in second and G3PHO  in third place.

The leading  single operator assisted station is John Sluymer VE3EJ, who wins the Rosebery Shield,  followed by VE3UTT in the open section.

In  the Multi operator section G3TBK was first, followed by VE9ML.

The Travellers award goes to A21MC, Mark Capstick G4RCD , and the Commonwealth Contest Medal goes to the ZL 'Quake Contesters' Team.

The team competition is again won by Team Canada Eh? , then Team Australia 1, ahead of  Team Quake Contesters. This is a fine team effort  by the southern teams under challenging HF  conditions.

Many thanks to the excellent HQ stations for handing out many bonus QSOs on all bands, the HQ stations in VK and ZL were again missing this year, something to look at in 2017.

QSO analysis plots are available as part of the Contest Committee results service, at the tabs , and show band activity/ time for the various entry categories ; Click on the tab marked QSO Analysis.

Also a fascinating tool  is a graph or plot per entries of scoring rates, which provides a great insight into the relative scoring pattern of the leading stations. Log standards were very good, with relatively few band or sent errors to investigate. A few logs were received after the deadline due to it now being shorter, but all were entered ok.

Looking forward to next year, when maybe the low bands will be even more important, and some special UK call area HQ stations are planned.

Lots of BERU info is athttps://berucontest.wordpress.com/

Mike G3VYI




This contest is part of the following contest series HF Championship