RSGB Contest Results 144MHz UKAC 2023

v4.158 by G4CLA

2023 144MHz UKAC - Review of the year

This series of contests continues to be popular with an average number of entrants per session of 257 (262 in 2022, 302 in 2021, 322 in 2020, 256 in 2019, 270 in 2018, 269 in 2017). There were at least 220 entrants in every session this year and entries peaked at 288 in the February session.

The number of locator squares active in each session varied between 48 (November) and 76 (in September). The number of stations active in each session varied between 385 (in December) and 586 (in June). In total, 130,901 QSOs (128,548 in 2022, 144,802, in 2021, 157,241 in 2020, 123,419 in 2019, 129,250 in 2018) were made during the 2023 144MHz UKAC.

The General Club category was won for the second year running by the Northern Fells CG. They topped the table in eleven of the twelve sessions. In second place, again for the second year running was the 807 ARO. For the fourth year running, Wirral & District ARC claimed third place. Fifty-four Affiliated Societies (74 in 2022, 64 in 2021, 80 in 2020, 70 in 2019, 79 in 2018) competed in the General Club Category.

The top spot in the Local Club category was claimed for the sixth year running by Hereford ARS who also topped the table in eight of the twelve sessions. The Parallel Lines CG claimed second place. Third place was claimed by Northampton RC. Forty-three Affiliated Societies (34 in 2022, 41 in 2021, 34 in 2020, 34 in 2019, 32 in 2018) competed in the Local Club Category. Affiliated Societies can apply to compete in the Local Club category section if they meet the appropriate criteria, please see the UKAC rules for details.

For the ninth year running, the AO (400 Watt, unlimited antenna) section was won by Pete G4CLA who won seven of the twelve sessions. David GI4SNA was in the runners-up spot, 283 points behind G4CLA. Richard GD8EXI claimed third place. The leading Intermediate Licensee was Martin 2M0KAU. The leading non-UK Station for the sixth year running was Conrad PA5Y, who entered ten sessions. Ninety-eight stations entered the AO section (95 in 2022, 100 in 2021, 111 in 2020, 94 in 2019 and 2018).

The AR (100 Watt, single antenna) section witnessed a close battle between G4FZN, G3XDY, M0NVS, GM4JTJ, G3TBK, G4ODA and 2E0VCC. All of these stations managed to score more than 7700 points (out of 8000). To achieve success in the UKAC, consistently high performance is required in at least eight of the twelve sessions and Chris G4FZN (assisted by Pauline G8HQW) once again produced this year's winning performance by amassing a perfect score of 8000 points, beating the runner-up John G3XDY by 120 points. Phil M0NVS was in third place with a score of 7858. Darrell 2E0VCC was the leading Intermediate Station in this section and is awarded the Intermediate Shield. The leading Non-UK Station was Philippe F1CBC who scored 6081 points. 344 stations entered the AR section.

In the AL (10 Watt, single antenna) section, three stations scored more than 7,700 points (out of 8,000): G1YBB, G4ASR, and G0EAK. The winner was Steven G1YBB who won the eight sessions he entered to score the maximum of 8000 points. David G4ASR was in second place, only 113 points behind G1YBB. Steve G0EAK was in third place with 7775 points. Mark, 2E0SBM was the leading Intermediate Station with 6986 points. David M7ALE was the Leading Foundation Station with 6631 points and is awarded the Foundation Shield. 172 stations entered the AL section.

A certificate is also awarded for the station who provides the most stations with their best DX (ODX) on each band in the UKAC across the year. The winner of the Best DX certificate on 144MHz for 2022 is Conrad PA5Y who appeared in the ODX column 336 times. In second place was David GI4SNA who appeared in the ODX column 297 times and in third place was Richard GD8EXI who appeared in the ODX column 153 times.

The Trophies and the certificates are awarded to the entrants listed below.

The award criteria for the Intermediate and Foundation Shields is being altered for 2024 onwards. Instead of being awarded to the Leading Intermediate and Foundation Stations in the 144MHz UKAC, these shields will in future be awarded to the Leading Intermediate and Foundation Stations in the Overall UKAC.

The first 2024 144MHz UKAC session starts at 2000 local time on Tuesday January 2nd. Just before this event is the 144MHz FM Activity Contest (FMAC) which starts at 1900 local time with a duration of 55 minutes. The entry sections for the FMAC are changing in 2024, please read the 2024 rules for further details.

Ian G0FCT

	03/01/23 Totals		07/02/23 Totals		07/03/23 Totals		04/04/23 Totals		02/05/23 Totals		06/06/23 Totals		04/07/23 Totals		01/08/23 Totals		05/09/23 Totals		03/10/23 Totals		07/11/23 Totals		05/12/23 Totals
Time	Qs	Bonus	Qs	Bonus	Qs	Bonus	Qs	Bonus	Qs	Bonus	Qs	Bonus	Qs	Bonus	Qs	Bonus	Qs	Bonus	Qs	Bonus	Qs	Bonus	Qs	Bonus
19:00							3,272	724,500	3,332	738,500	2,857	761,500	2,560	540,500	2,869	686,500	3,109	792,000	2,524	568,000
19:30							2,858	403,000	2,699	416,500	2,889	521,500	2,137	292,000	2,492	377,000	2,748	445,000	2,110	310,000
20:00	2,121	443,500	3,306	699,000	2,776	585,500	2,424	311,500	2,491	313,500	2,603	369,000	1,726	216,500	2,177	291,000	2,403	338,000	1,808	227,000	2,665	563,000	2,457	495,000
20:30	1,752	238,500	2,742	348,000	2,300	316,000	2,215	217,000	2,169	221,000	2,387	292,000	1,466	160,500	1,987	218,500	2,163	246,500	1,590	187,500	2,036	308,000	1,885	261,500
21:00	1,432	168,500	2,293	267,500	1,861	211,000	2,171	170,000	2,209	161,000	2,500	236,000	1,458	122,500	2,015	155,500	2,095	187,000	1,600	150,000	1,732	229,500	1,586	191,000
21:30	1,236	135,000	2,151	194,500	1,727	188,500															1,606	181,500	1,430	144,000
22:00	1,095	76,500	2,039	158,500	1,534	116,000															1,665	123,500	1,361	88,500
Totals	7,636	1,062,000	12,531	1,667,500	10,198	1,417,000	12,940	1,826,000	12,900	1,850,500	13,236	2,180,000	9,347	1,332,000	11,540	1,728,500	12,518	2,008,500	9,632	1,442,500	9,704	1,405,500	8,719	1,180,000
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144MHz UKAC 2023
Local Club Scores
Pos	Club	03/01/23	07/02/23	07/03/23	04/04/23	02/05/23	06/06/23	04/07/23	01/08/23	05/09/23	03/10/23	07/11/23	05/12/23	Total	Pos Cert
1	Hereford ARS	6,833	11,502	8,872	10,754	11,961	9,622	10,200	9,684	9,611	8,889	10,810	11,116	119,854
2	Parallel Lines CG	8,222	9,251	9,218	9,830	9,425	8,489	9,500	10,491	9,369	10,454	9,258	7,512	111,019
3	Northampton RC	5,019	6,441	8,031	6,427	6,048	7,590	5,954	5,915	7,017	7,169	5,862	6,217	77,690
4	Trowbridge & DARC	3,357	4,269	4,110	4,803	6,514	5,360	3,789	4,767	4,203	3,499	3,921	4,102	52,694
5	Swindon & DARC	3,845	3,880	4,597	4,551	4,014	4,046	1,910	3,173	2,213	3,202	3,127	2,211	40,769
6	Tall Trees CG	2,597	1,176	2,201	2,732	3,168	2,754	3,868	2,195	2,367	2,324	3,889	2,383	31,654
7	Guildford & DRS	2,453	3,127	1,840	1,900	2,593	2,268	2,110	2,853	2,445	3,645	3,138	1,859	30,231
8	RAF Waddington ARC	1,132	2,786	2,917	2,539	2,453	2,850	2,861	2,736	2,593	2,547	2,576	1,750	29,740
9	Telford & DARS	2,116	3,209	2,154	2,566	1,686	2,418	2,065	1,455	2,362	2,614	2,841	2,571	28,057
10	Milton Keynes ARS	3,476	4,092	2,390	3,672	3,941	2,360	598	677	2,572	1,490	830	218	26,316
11	Rugby ATS	1,184	3,474	2,674	2,254	2,250	1,687	1,637	1,393	1,688	1,646	2,432	1,660	23,979
12	Grimsby ARS	600	1,982	1,234	1,904	1,976	1,925	2,051	1,812	2,005	2,293	1,960	961	20,703
13	West Kent ARS	2,193	2,622	1,376	1,037	1,597	1,145	1,782	1,257	1,168	1,456	1,418	918	17,969
14	Coulsdon ATS	1,414	1,572	764	1,392	1,135	1,715	1,952	943	1,138	1,745	1,667	2,067	17,504
15	Bolton Wireless Club	1,258	1,511	776	2,007	2,047	1,583	736	1,424	682	1,386	946	1,540	15,896
16	Isle of Man ARS	967	967	1,431	1,757	801	919	1,341	1,572	767	875	1,149	1,841	14,387
17	Cray Valley RS	599	1,242	1,249	2,211	919	389	309	930	2,220	618	259	330	11,275
18	Worksop ARS	857	873	783	736	728	884	896	1,050	1,015	1,199	783	884	10,688
19	Martlesham RS	992	978	980	982		960	993	968	962		987	1,000	9,802
20	Fort Purbrook ARC	503	1,415	1,209	945	828	637	454	680	259	345	1,136	278	8,689
21	Torbay ARS		816	624	849	2,103	1,687	190	756		31		946	8,002
22	Nuneaton &DARC	1,253	830	945	398	327	362	568	305	290	907	450	1,211	7,846
23	Lincoln SWC	1,051	945	1,037	428	323	1,112	1,511	456	948				7,811
24	Colchester RA	822	886	929	880		342		893			876	1,218	6,846
25	Basingstoke ARC	703	648	1,265	689	545	220	447	524	474	126		609	6,250
26	Hambleton ARS	800	756		726	715	644	763	806	822				6,032
27	Lowestoft District & Pye ARC		464	385	500	528	689	415	512	892	477	437	516	5,815
28	Guisborough District ARC	761	709	774	861				823			828		4,756
29	Gloucester AR&ES	285	140	649	628	170	738	568	491	660				4,329
30	Bromsgrove & DARC			273	297	357	406	434	250	335	422	454	511	3,739
31	Wrexham and Marches ARS			452	279	130	350		343	379	309	532	451	3,225
32	Morecambe Bay ARS	562					491	631				675	684	3,043
33	Duddon Contest Team						623	603		892				2,118
34	Leyland & DAR		140		285		1,287							1,712
35	Worthing Radio Events Group		54		125	761	305			94				1,339
36	Dudley & DARS				402				338		523			1,263
37	Cambridge & DARC	158	56	67	111	499			135		61		134	1,221
38	Sheffield & DWS				422							142		564
39	Surrey RCC	281			142									423
40	Taunton & DARC								381					381
41	Hull & District ARS						275							275
42	Cheltenham ARA										200			200
43	Leicester RS								101		28			129

144MHz UKAC 2023
General Club Scores
Pos	Club	03/01/23	07/02/23	07/03/23	04/04/23	02/05/23	06/06/23	04/07/23	01/08/23	05/09/23	03/10/23	07/11/23	05/12/23	Total	Pos Cert
1	Northern Fells CG	8,030	11,459	10,537	8,275	9,720	13,508	6,930	9,939	9,776	11,338	8,278	4,670	112,460
2	807 ARO	6,470	6,093	6,754	6,025	7,318	6,298	6,658	5,463	4,941	6,017	5,737	5,779	73,553
3	Wirral & DARC	4,957	7,102	6,372	6,651	6,507	5,900	5,150	5,344	4,298	4,200	5,848	5,334	67,663
4	GMDX	3,029	2,669	4,227	4,947	6,480	4,310	4,498	5,338	5,500	4,082	4,402	2,782	52,264
5	Harwell ARS	4,528	5,156	3,661	4,041	4,582	3,943	4,045	3,759	4,107	4,437	4,170	4,606	51,035
6	Norfolk ARC	3,020	3,685	3,976	5,243	4,406	4,198	4,915	4,405	5,762	2,999	4,260	3,972	50,841
7	Burton upon Trent ARC	3,016	3,396	3,540	3,901	1,777	2,959	3,506	3,331	3,499	3,159	3,742	4,087	39,913
8	Gower/Gwyr CC	2,674	4,357	4,604	3,184	3,482	3,169	2,802	2,851	1,169	3,295	2,746	3,225	37,558
9	Spalding & DARS	1,571	3,237	2,657	3,178	1,632	2,660	2,117	3,395	4,272	2,222	3,005	1,457	31,403
10	Triple B ARCG	1,866	2,498	2,031	1,204	2,297	2,224	2,260	2,069	1,933	2,653	1,781	2,698	25,514
11	Drowned Rats RG	2,685	3,150	814	2,419	3,531	2,576	1,032	712	916	1,253	609	653	20,350
12	Hinckley AR & ES	1,228	1,584	1,664	1,680	1,410	2,654	962	1,919	1,821	2,154	1,704	1,221	20,001
13	Medway ARTS	953	1,732	1,120	1,074	965	903	795	1,630	1,620	1,161	1,151	1,454	14,558
14	Christchurch ARS	1,162	1,155	1,642	1,421	993	1,072	947	1,480	936	556	1,206	1,721	14,291
15	Ayr ARG	548	637	1,048	877	1,756	1,479	1,784	1,039	749	1,155	1,269	1,086	13,427
16	Aylesbury Vale RS	577	1,216	1,281	850	425	958	578	897	417	752	1,351	1,167	10,469
17	Bittern DX Group	614	1,016	1,033	1,009	625		1,008	996	1,703	1,461	647	269	10,381
18	Travelling Wave CG	903	864	859	827	829	875	815	875	829	880	889	849	10,294
19	Ripon & DARS	872	1,292	689	1,229		1,042	1,189	878	1,318				8,509
20	Finningley ARS	825	830			814	927	844		1,743	784	716	769	8,252
21	Addiscombe ARC	776	875	477	851	471	598	1,208	281	310	521	525	233	7,126
22	RSGB Contest Club				220	386	649	506	1,624	936	795	766	864	6,746
23	Vecta CG	838			577	1,383	1,456			1,884		383		6,521
24	Radio Society of Harrow	492	577	540	500	685	811	362	661	854	661		230	6,373
25	Bishop's Stortford ARS	629	627	668	392	602	610	460	537			655	563	5,743
26	Stratford-upon-Avon & DRS	666	304	418	527	342	463	507	669		98	669	127	4,790
27	Andover RAC		1,019	978	180	278		328	206	360	707	402		4,458
28	Online ARC	723	492	581		471	434		220	354	446		538	4,259
29	Flight Refuelling ARS	599	545	539	356	481	421	78	62	31	7	270	283	3,672
30	Workington &DARC	365	549	513		628		500	271		492	216		3,534
31	Salop ARS					380				447	717	842	235	2,621
32	Crawley ARC		338			657				532			882	2,409
33	Thornton Cleveleys ARS		275	292	291	329			225	341		246	293	2,292
34	Verulam ARC					267	265	862	862					2,256
35	Denby Dale & DARS	148	64	258	160	62	107	236	106	373	133	253	135	2,035
36	Lothians RS					306	175	381		715	112	285		1,974
37	Dundee ARC			225	307	256	469		176			85		1,518
38	UK Microwave Group	322			333		236			55		285	176	1,407
39	Reading & DARC				684		677							1,361
40	Thames ARG		225		333	300	333							1,191
41	West of Scotland ARS	206		310			282		118					916
42	Mid Somerset ARC		270	472		170								912
43	South Derbyshire & Ashby Woulds ARG	290	302	161	102									855
44	Blacksheep CG									367	250			617
45	South Birmingham RS	251	205		77	79								612
45	Wolverhampton ARS	317	295											612
47	Chippenham & DARC						112		43	69	105			329
48	St Tybie ARS	32			25		105		29				58	249
49	Halifax & DARC		48	101			45						29	223
50	Bury RS	95	98											193
51	Leicestershire Foxes CG	103	70											173
52	Weston-super-Mare RS						26			6		64		96
53	Stafford & DARS		86											86
54	Solihull ARS				71									71
55	North Bristol ARC									48				48
56	350 DX Club							32						32
57	The Online Radio Club						14							14

This contest is part of the following contest series Overall UKAC

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Squares	03/01/23	07/02/23	07/03/23	04/04/23	02/05/23	06/06/23	04/07/23	01/08/23	05/09/23	03/10/23	07/11/23	05/12/23
IN89		1	1	2	3	1	2	1	2	2	2	1
IO64	1	1	4	3	3	3	3	2	2	3	4	3
IO65						1
IO66									1
IO67	1				1	1	2	1	2
IO68					1		1	2	1	1
IO70	2	2	6	6	5	8	3	2	3	3	1	1
IO71	3	6	4	6	5	5	3	5	8	5	5	8
IO72	3	1	2	2	3	3	2	3	4	3	3	4
IO73	1	1		1	2	1	3	1	1		2	1
IO74	3	4	7	6	5	6	5	7	8	3	5	6
IO75	15	12	18	15	18	25	15	27	17	11	12	18
IO76	3	2	2	4	3	2	2	2	1	2	3	2
IO77	1	1	1	2	1	1	2	1	1	1	1	1
IO78	1				1	1	1	1	1
IO80	2	8	8	7	11	13	11	10	9	9	6	9
IO81	27	32	26	34	37	42	27	34	29	23	25	26
IO82	32	35	29	33	36	40	30	33	31	26	37	31
IO83	24	36	24	34	35	42	28	30	28	21	31	26
IO84	5	4	2	4	5	6	7	6	5	4	2	2
IO85	6	9	8	7	13	10	13	13	8	7	7	4
IO86	3	3	2	2	6	6	3	2	5	2	3	1
IO87		2	2	3	4	2	2	2	5	2	1
IO88									1
IO89		1		1	1		1		2			1
IO90	11	23	18	17	25	22	14	16	21	4	11	12
IO91	68	84	66	66	65	71	51	52	60	59	51	47
IO92	49	64	54	60	59	55	54	58	60	64	51	51
IO93	29	49	37	37	32	50	30	33	40	33	34	27
IO94	13	19	14	20	15	21	12	19	12	13	17	8
IO95	3	6	7	7	3	4	4	7	5	5	2	2
IO97		1			1		1	1	2	1
IO99						1
JO00	2	5	3	1	4	6	2	2	1	1	1	2
JO01	26	41	32	43	34	26	23	32	40	27	30	24
JO02	19	25	24	21	21	24	19	25	30	21	26	26
JO03	1	1	2	2		1	2	2	1		1	1
UK Sqs	28	30	27	29	32	32	33	32	35	28	28	28
Other Sqs	24	25	22	28	24	35	23	28	41	25	20	22
Active Stns	394	531	438	507	505	586	421	482	555	394	408	385
Entries	230	288	262	279	281	284	239	254	257	239	249	220

144MHz UKAC 2023
Section AO
Pos	Call	Club	03/01/23	07/02/23	07/03/23	04/04/23	02/05/23	06/06/23	04/07/23	01/08/23	05/09/23	03/10/23	07/11/23	05/12/23	Total	Pos Cert
1	G4CLA	Parallel Lines CG	1,000	1,000	935	1,000	1,000	973	1,000	970	972	1,000	1,000	970	7,973
2	GI4SNA	GMDX			870	871	971	1,000	965	1,000	944	968	971	852	7,690
3	G(DIM)8EXI(/M)	Isle of Man ARS	967	967	967	948	57	157		941	138	875	942	1,000	7,607
4	PA5Y	Northern Fells CG	903	935	1,000	974		894	931		777	937		941	7,515
5	GM3SEK	GMDX	935	903	903	923	942		896	911	805	906	914	911	7,345
6	GW0RHC(/P)	Gower/Gwyr CC		838	806	794	857	789	482	235	638	750	771	764	6,369
7	G0LTG(/P)	Trowbridge & DARC	774	806	612	692	771	815	793	735	694	812	800		6,306
8	G4LPP	Norfolk ARC	741	741	709	820	800		758	705	666	593	742	647	6,016
9	G0XDI	Northampton RC	806	645	677	743	828	763	724		583	687	714	735	6,000
10	G0LBK	Spalding & DARS		870	838	846		868		852	833		885		5,992
11	G4AFF	Norfolk ARC	677	774	741	769				882	916			676	5,435
12	MW0DX	Triple B ARCG		548			685	526	689	558	416	718	685	588	4,997
13	F1MKG	807 ARO	645	580	483	487	485	447	655	676	555	625		558	4,781
14	GM4PPT	Ayr ARG	548	483	548	641	657	605	620	441	361	656	485	411	4,760
15	EI8KN	Gower/Gwyr CC	709	322	580	564	742	552	413	617		375	457	470	4,691
16	M0WLF	Trowbridge & DARC	516	290		435	714	736	586	500	500	406	542	441	4,535
17	G4YPC	Guildford & DRS	580	451	516	512	542	657	448	588	472	500	600	500	4,495
18	G8DOH	Parallel Lines CG		516	451	538	457	631	310	294	527	562	228	617	4,299
19	G3MEH	Aylesbury Vale RS		612	645	589		710		529			657	529	4,271
20	M1MHZ	Wirral & DARC	870							794		781	857	794	4,096
21	GM4BYF	GMDX	483	354	419		514	578	517	382		437	514	382	3,844
22	GM4YXI	GMDX					885	921			1,000	843			3,649
23	MM0CEZ	GMDX			387	461	628	500		411			628	352	3,367
24	G4KUX	Northern Fells CG				666		842	551		750	531			3,340
25	G0UOK/P	Guisborough District ARC		709	774					823			828		3,134
26	GW4SHF	Hereford ARS							827	764	611			705	2,907
27	G6AD(/P)	Hinckley AR & ES	387	96	290		428	421			444	343	428		2,837
28	G8GRS(/P)	Trowbridge & DARC		225	322	256	285	263	137	352	388	312	114	323	2,501
29	MM0GPZ	GMDX				717				647	722				2,086
30	GW0GEI	GMDX	354	419			600	684							2,057
31	G4RRA	Torbay ARS					914	947							1,861
32	M0DXR/P	Cray Valley RS				897					861				1,758
33	G4ODA	Spalding & DARS									888			823	1,711
34	G3UDA	Norfolk ARC					400	315		264			400	264	1,643
35	G4JBH						314	184	275		194	218	371		1,556
36	G0WZV			258		358		289		323			314		1,542
37	F4HNP	Harwell ARS	258	129	32	153	228	131			166	187	200		1,452