RSGB Contest Results 144MHz UKAC 2024

v4.158 by G4CLA

2024 144MHz UKAC: Review of the year

This series of contests continues to be popular with an average number of entrants per session of 217 (257 in 2023, 262 in 2022, 302 in 2021, 322 in 2020, 256 in 2019, 270 in 2018, 269 in 2017). There were at least 189 entrants in every session this year and entries peaked at 252 in the March session.

The number of locator squares active in each session varied between 42 (January) and 73 (November). The number of stations active in each session varied between 310 (January) and 467 (July). In total, 106,494 QSOs (130,901 in 2023, 128,548 in 2022, 144,802, in 2021, 157,241 in 2020, 123,419 in 2019, 129,250 in 2018) were made during the 2024 144MHz UKAC.

The General Club category was won for the third year running by the Northern Fells CG. They topped the table in ten of the twelve sessions. In second place was the Harwell ARS. For the fifth year running, Wirral & District ARC claimed third place. Fifty-eight Affiliated Societies (54 in 2023, 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 by the Parallel Lines CG pushing last year's winners, the Hereford ARS into second place. The Parallel Lines CG won all twelve sessions. Third place was claimed by the Chesham & DARS. Forty-three Affiliated Societies (43 in 2023, 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. If a club wishes to change category, this must be donebefore the first UKAC session of 2025. Please see the UKAC rules for further details.

For the tenth year running, the AO (Licensed Power, unlimited antenna) section was won by Pete G4CLA who won nine of the twelve sessions, scoring 8,000 points. David GI4SNA was in the runners-up spot, 286 points behind G4CLA. Richard GD8EXI claimed third place. The leading non-UK Station for the sixth year running was Roger EI8KN, who entered all twelve sessions. Eighty stations entered the AO section (98 in 2023, 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, GM4JTJ, G3XDY, G3TBK, 2E0VCC, MW0LKX, and G4ODA. 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 Jon GM4JTJ by 92 points. John G3XDY was in third place with a score of 7865. Darrell 2E0VCC was the leading Intermediate Station in this section. The leading Non-UK Station was Frank PE1EWR who scored 5842 points. 287 stations entered the AR section.

In the AL (10 Watt, single antenna) section, six stations scored more than 7,700 points (out of 8,000): G1YBB, G4ASR, G0EAK, G6HPR, G8OVZ, and G0FEH. The winner was Steven G1YBB who won the eleven of the twelve sessions to score the maximum of 8000 points. David G4ASR was in second place, only 160 points behind G1YBB. Steve G0EAK was in third place with 7769 points. Mark, 2E0SBM was the leading Intermediate Station with 6986 points. David M7DQO was the Leading Foundation Station with 5431 points. 119 stations entered the AL section. Oliver M7OTJ was the leading young amateur.

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 2024 is David GI4SNA who appeared in the ODX column 331 times. In second place was Jon GM4JTJ who appeared in the ODX column 237 times and in third place was Richard GD8EXI who appeared in the ODX column 211 times.

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

The first 2025 144MHz UKAC session starts at 2000 local time on Tuesday January 7. 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 for 2025 back to power based (10W and 50W), please read the 2025 rules for further details.

Ian G0FCT

	02/01/24 Totals		06/02/24 Totals		05/03/24 Totals		02/04/24 Totals		07/05/24 Totals		04/06/24 Totals		02/07/24 Totals		06/08/24 Totals		03/09/24 Totals		01/10/24 Totals		05/11/24 Totals		03/12/24 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							2,594	526,000	2,600	625,500	2,342	567,000	2,495	567,000	2,793	655,500	2,396	568,500	1,927	460,000
19:30							1,932	268,500	2,239	353,000	2,007	318,000	2,047	322,000	2,398	349,500	1,991	324,500	1,585	250,000
20:00	1,895	381,000	2,229	467,000	2,685	606,000	1,659	221,000	1,931	294,000	1,832	250,000	1,608	195,000	2,008	242,000	1,813	234,000	1,350	198,500	2,526	580,000	2,316	497,000
20:30	1,440	183,000	1,836	253,000	2,170	313,000	1,464	159,500	1,928	243,000	1,556	170,500	1,499	169,000	1,741	188,000	1,505	159,500	1,206	156,000	2,063	317,000	1,907	240,500
21:00	1,052	133,500	1,467	171,500	1,866	221,500	1,374	117,500	1,780	169,000	1,506	113,500	1,433	123,500	1,556	134,500	1,477	116,500	1,206	106,000	1,781	237,500	1,574	167,000
21:30	876	76,500	1,157	118,000	1,749	182,000															1,549	174,500	1,345	119,500
22:00	890	60,500	1,208	88,000	1,518	117,500															1,390	118,000	1,227	70,000
Totals	6,153	834,500	7,897	1,097,500	9,988	1,440,000	9,023	1,292,500	10,478	1,684,500	9,243	1,419,000	9,082	1,376,500	10,496	1,569,500	9,182	1,403,000	7,274	1,170,500	9,309	1,427,000	8,369	1,094,000
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144MHz UKAC 2024
Local Club Scores
Pos	Club	02/01/24	06/02/24	05/03/24	02/04/24	07/05/24	04/06/24	02/07/24	06/08/24	03/09/24	01/10/24	05/11/24	03/12/24	Total	Pos Cert
1	Parallel Lines CG	11,319	10,882	13,032	11,375	11,183	9,605	8,288	8,591	11,194	8,965	8,775	8,257	121,466
2	Hereford ARS	7,355	8,403	7,371	6,671	7,147	7,566	7,027	7,267	4,832	5,129	5,313	4,105	78,186
3	Chesham & DARS	4,360	7,276	7,013	6,169	5,278	5,843	5,634	5,413	8,154	5,919	7,118	8,523	76,700
4	Trowbridge & DARC	2,430	2,697	4,485	2,333	4,417	2,980	5,601	5,149	4,532	4,031	4,658	3,032	46,345
5	Guildford & DRS	2,132	2,625	3,636	4,078	3,817	3,384	3,455	2,364	4,290	3,559	3,744	4,632	41,716
6	Spalding & DARS	3,695	2,833	2,509	3,849	3,632	2,203	4,043	4,847	3,408	2,904	3,047	3,719	40,689
7	Tall Trees CG	1,080	2,591	3,921	2,948	1,924	1,734	3,086	2,857	1,531	976	1,158	2,641	26,447
8	Coulsdon ATS	1,802	1,788	1,933	2,096	1,033	2,312	1,488	2,485	1,558	2,217	2,259	2,778	23,749
9	Bolton Wireless Club	1,282	1,478	1,918	1,831	1,419	2,017	2,374	1,808	1,762	1,735	2,494	2,220	22,338
10	Martlesham RS	968	1,398	980	951	1,780	1,910	1,831	1,887	1,960	1,951	992	962	17,570
11	Isle of Man ARS	1,562	1,000	1,738	1,117	1,747	520	579	1,062	865	1,728	885	1,704	14,507
12	West Kent ARS	1,643	1,896	1,134	1,147	1,289	1,258	554	669	1,343	577	1,536	731	13,777
13	Swindon & DARC	836	1,113	2,527	1,248	1,247	482	950	1,185	1,261	1,287	678	466	13,280
14	Rugby ATS	779	1,036	1,211	1,027	1,108	820	406	713	1,172	682	1,221	967	11,142
15	Telford & DARS	464	326	303	785	1,242	1,279	1,260	855	1,104	1,079	810	1,206	10,713
16	Cray Valley RS	283	297		779	637	1,564	455	1,067	1,352	697	846	487	8,464
17	Lowestoft District & Pye ARC	401	420	578	117	1,046	899	737	973	1,043	710	823	708	8,455
18	Nuneaton &DARC	871	800	1,048	372	754	695	1,190	461	340	776	268	256	7,831
19	Fort Purbrook ARC	936	333	463	744	691	654	764	649	838	377	269	322	7,040
20	Gloucester AR&ES	377	769	622	627	716	673	659	446	514	692	523		6,618
21	Heckington & District RG		688	638	641	454	673	634	590	683		707	865	6,573
22	Basingstoke ARC	496	427	561	551	466	580	524	538	544	500	546	527	6,260
23	Worksop ARS	748	1,450	870	848	844		744				731		6,235
24	Morecambe Bay ARS	653	760	503	751				675	661	578		606	5,187
25	Dudley & DARS		763	704	450		652	510	255	382	418	536		4,670
26	Bromsgrove & DARC	480	347	219	241	351	440	475	428	404		507	511	4,403
27	Lincoln SWC	267	1,187	534	1,088	148	393	75	123		96	238		4,149
28	Colchester RA		600		576	363		960	700					3,199
29	Torbay ARS		774	824	108	128	93	199	116	87	210	146	93	2,778
30	Worthing Radio Events Group					371	406	462	623			192	228	2,282
31	Wrexham and Marches ARS	472	362	277			213					346	393	2,063
32	Hambleton ARS			554		750				551				1,855
33	Milton Keynes ARS					425		191	882		307			1,805
34	Duddon Contest Team								1,077	522				1,599
35	Cambridge & DARC	25	254	213	137	18	108	127	85		186	48	128	1,329
36	Maltby & DARS	282			274		217			489				1,262
37	Guisborough District ARC		880											880
38	Sheffield & DWS								33	424	371			828
39	RAF Waddington ARC	700												700
40	Rhyl & DARC						218							218
41	Maidenhead & DARC								181					181
42	Bracknell ARC	86												86
43	Leicester RS								58					58

144MHz UKAC 2024
General Club Scores
Pos	Club	02/01/24	06/02/24	05/03/24	02/04/24	07/05/24	04/06/24	02/07/24	06/08/24	03/09/24	01/10/24	05/11/24	03/12/24	Total	Pos Cert
1	Northern Fells CG	5,725	8,255	14,339	11,254	11,443	11,275	7,608	10,887	8,715	7,412	8,047	6,106	111,066
2	Harwell ARS	6,653	7,828	8,214	7,186	7,327	8,209	6,271	7,575	5,694	6,527	6,047	7,260	84,791
3	Wirral & DARC	5,032	6,540	3,679	5,756	4,840	5,440	5,209	4,550	5,215	4,694	5,310	5,497	61,762
4	Norfolk ARC	3,315	3,878	5,034	3,967	4,268	5,082	3,662	3,337	3,751	3,277	5,847	2,677	48,095
5	Burton upon Trent ARC	2,324	3,147	3,902	4,182	4,398	4,302	3,987	2,914	3,712	3,792	3,273	3,821	43,754
6	Gower/Gwyr CC	2,481	2,581	3,770	2,485	2,881	3,666	3,816	4,256	3,077	3,379	3,331	3,252	38,975
7	GMDX	2,428	322	3,017	2,653	4,599	3,314	4,049	4,603	3,645	3,636	3,127	1,855	37,248
8	Triple B ARCG	2,246	2,243	2,048	2,187	2,181	2,522	2,269	2,008	1,988	1,591	2,104	2,086	25,473
9	Drowned Rats RG	1,141	1,476	2,084	1,447	2,717	1,929	1,975	2,722	1,535	1,718	2,803	1,754	23,301
10	Hinckley AR & ES	1,503	1,511	2,961	2,336	1,825	1,372	999	1,436	1,219	1,797	783	1,551	19,293
11	Medway ARTS	1,291	1,725	851	1,753	613	1,480	1,251	1,353	1,379	1,231	1,296	1,377	15,600
12	807 ARO	2,550	1,630	1,579	1,544	1,344	1,812	1,502	519	779		1,944		15,203
13	Ayr ARG	1,233	962	1,033	1,382	1,722	1,305	1,093	617	723	342	747	736	11,895
14	Ripon & DARS	769	745	778	803	792	717	916	1,269	573	813	1,014	794	9,983
15	RSGB Contest Club	811	891	838	841	317	1,366	489	474	1,441		869	842	9,179
16	Stratford-upon-Avon & DRS	719	748	705	488	1,278	1,420	705	1,132		519	508	602	8,824
17	Christchurch ARS	1,195	485	1,818	1,033	931	732	510	563	272			456	7,995
18	Bittern DX Group	559	290	881	926	567	680	553	988	468	901	146	850	7,809
19	Finningley ARS	771	630	690	758	743	726	696	759	676	728		629	7,806
20	Bromley & DARS		896	612	586	479	573	537	577	558	543	653	637	6,651
21	Vecta CG		600	316			1,366	1,579	993	1,000				5,854
22	Salop ARS	733	663	712	690	424	333	713	590			228	673	5,759
23	Bishop's Stortford ARS	629	644		482	554	500	565	642	375			566	4,957
24	Three As CG					702		710	772	727	798	769		4,478
25	Addiscombe ARC	440	369	367	400	263		372	207	389	456	430	385	4,078
26	Flight Refuelling ARS	137	227	97	337	228	235	355	239	251		381	330	2,817
27	Workington &DARC	307				603	369	234		191	348			2,052
28	Crawley ARC	589				735			617					1,941
29	Blacksheep CG						437	400	466			257		1,560
30	Dundee ARC			114		333		120	195	440	121			1,323
31	Denby Dale & DARS	94	195	200	200	202	146	234						1,271
32	Andover RAC		217	791				158						1,166
33	Radio Society of Harrow	384				773								1,157
34	Verulam ARC			342					200			515		1,057
35	Scarborough ARS									323	684		39	1,046
36	South Birmingham RS							206	266	316				788
37	Thornton Cleveleys ARS			193		236				29		223		681
38	RNARS											657		657
39	UK Microwave Group		120	314		212								646
40	Farnborough & DRS						266		363					629
41	Reading & DARC												433	433
42	Meirion ARS					396								396
43	Mid Somerset ARC								64	154	122			340
44	Hastings E & RC		311											311
44	Pennine Ham											123	188	311
46	West of Scotland ARS					301								301
47	GMDX North										272			272
48	Wolverhampton ARS			196					71					267
49	Chippenham & DARC								97	110	43			250
50	Kilmarnock & Loudoun ARC						187							187
51	Lothians RS	125										7		132
52	Nunsfield House ARG									125				125
53	Invicta CG										87			87
54	St Tybie ARS						31				30			61
55	Halifax & DARC				34	6								40
56	Coventry ARS												31	31
57	Bury St Edmunds ARS											28		28
58	Online ARC									14				14

This contest is part of the following contest series Overall UKAC

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Squares	02/01/24	06/02/24	05/03/24	02/04/24	07/05/24	04/06/24	02/07/24	06/08/24	03/09/24	01/10/24	05/11/24	03/12/24
IN89				1	2	2	2	2	2		1	2
IO64	1	2	3	2	3	3	5	2	4	4	4	1
IO67		1			2				1
IO68		1			1	1	1		1	1	1
IO70	1	1	2	1	3	4	7	4	3	3	2	1
IO71	5	5	5	5	6	7	5	5	5	3	7	5
IO72	2	2	2	3	2	3	1	5	4	3	4	3
IO73	1	2	2	1	4	2		7	4	1	3	1
IO74	4	2	7	4	7	5	4	6	5	6	6	3
IO75	9	11	13	15	15	14	17	15	22	10	12	13
IO76	4	2	2		1		2	2	2	1	2	3
IO77	1	1	1	1	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
IO78		1
IO80	3	5	10	9	7	11	12	16	17	6	10	14
IO81	24	27	29	22	25	22	31	37	31	29	26	23
IO82	19	26	22	22	22	23	26	26	24	20	21	15
IO83	25	33	30	28	35	35	34	34	32	23	29	27
IO84	2	2	3	4	5	2	2	4	6	3	1	1
IO85	9	2	10	6	8	7	2	9	9	5	6	6
IO86	2	1	2	1	5	1	2	3	3	4	4	2
IO87	2		1		3	1	2		1		2	1
IO88											1
IO89	1	1	1	1			1	1	1	1	1	1
IO90	8	11	14	10	20	17	13	10	9	6	9	7
IO91	45	48	56	54	63	49	57	59	50	48	53	59
IO92	41	50	57	53	52	44	48	47	52	46	47	48
IO93	23	31	33	45	35	28	22	25	23	21	24	17
IO94	13	20	19	21	16	21	16	16	24	8	15	16
IO95	4	5	4	4	4	4	5	5	5	2	5	1
IO97	1	1		2		1	2	1	1	1	1	1
IO99						1
JO00	1	6	2	4	7	3	3	4	2	1	1	1
JO01	20	27	25	25	29	23	21	27	27	19	26	25
JO02	17	20	22	25	26	26	27	25	19	18	22	15
JO03		1	1	1	1	1					1
UK Sqs	28	31	28	28	30	30	29	28	31	28	32	29
Other Sqs	14	23	23	21	27	27	26	33	30	27	41	23
Active Stns	310	381	421	416	467	420	409	460	452	339	433	358
Entries	189	219	252	222	234	228	218	232	215	190	206	193