Platinum Jubilee Tournament

This Tournament was a celebration of the Queen's Platinum Jubilee. The Tournament comprised three separate mini-contests each of 70 minutes duration, two on HF and one of VHF.

The Jubilee CW Contest was well supported and enjoyed by all, with contacts being made inter UK and also with many European and a few DX stations. Unfortunately, one UK station used an inappropriate prefix and all QSOs with this station had to be declared invalid. The 40m band was the main inter UK band, but 20m was used for longer distance contacts. A few stations also managed to make some QSOs on 80m.

The Jubilee VHF Contest was run solely on the 2m band and attracted 28 entries and one very useful checklog from GB70E - many thanks. A few stations managed to catch a very brief Sporadic-E opening in the closing minutes of the contest that resulted in a handful of QSOs with Italian stations.

The Jubilee SSB Contest attracted 51 entries with five GB70 stations submitting checklogs. It was good to receive logs from three stations for whom this was their first foray onto a competitive event.

Platinum Jubilee Tournament Results

CW Mini-Contest

The leading 10W CW station was GQ4E (G4ENZ)  followed by MQ0T (GM3WUX) and GQ0JJG.

The leading 100W CW station was GQ4BWP followed by M2G (G4RCG), and GQ4FAL.

SP6EIY was the leading non UK 10W CW station, and OE5TXF the leading 100W CW station.

VHF Mini-Contest

The leading 10W VHF station was GQ0OIW/70 followed by MQ0WTD/M and M7HFD/P who was also the leading Foundation station on VHF.

The leading 100W VHF station was M1DDD/P followed by MQ1L (G0LGS) and M0BAO/P. The leading Intermediate station on VHF was 2Q0MDJ and F1CBC was the leading non UK 100W VHF station.

SSB Mini-Contest

The leading 10W SSB station was GQ0JJG followed by GQ3ZBU and GQ0ACK.

The leading 100W SSB station was MQ7Q (G4PIQ) followed by M4J/70 (G0DVJ) and GQ0ORY

PA3GLK was the leading (and only) non UK 10W SSB station, with ON6NL the highest placed of the eight non UK 100W SSB entrants.

Overall Results

The results from the three mini-contests have been normalised and combined to obtain an overall results table. Congratulations to the Overall Winner, G0JJG who wins the Queen's Platinum Jubilee Trophy. The Overall Runner-up was M1DDD followed by G0DVJ in Overall 3rd place and G0ACK in Overall 4th Place.

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Ian, G0FCT, Graham G0NBI and Mike G3VYI