This years event saw a drop in the number of entries and in the number of stations active, with QSO and scores well down on last year. In the Multi-Operator Section a change of callsign this year for the Victory Group seems to have done the trick leapfrogging the Five Bells Group into first place. In the Single Operator Categories the "others" section was won by G4IVH who went out portable this time (although only a mile from home!) while G3MEH made a successful swap to the 24 hour Fixed Section and G0ODQ headed the 6 hour section.. G4HGI receives the fix station 25w single antenna award.
If the comments in the logs are anything to go by, conditions were dominated by QSB, even over quite short distances. I have included all the comments at the end of the page.
Pete Lindsay, G4CLA@rsgb.org.uk
Section SO Pos Call Loc Qso Mults Points Total Best DX Loc Dist Power Ant 1* G4IVH/P IO92WN 260 93 61379 5,708,247 DL1NBM/PJO40FF 649 400 17 2* GM4WLL/P IO85NR 175 89 53283 4,742,187 DL1EJA JO31DS 745 200 8/8 3 MM0CCC/P IO66OM 22 24 9265 222,360 G4MJS/P IO90JO 754 80 8 Section SF Pos Call Loc Qso Mults Points Total Best DX Loc Dist Power Ant 1* G3MEH IO91QS 292 89 62513 5,563,657 F5LRL JN26MV 680 400 2x10 2* G7RAU IO90IR 205 53 70170 3,719,010 EA3TI JN11DO 1051 400 2x9 3 PE1EWR JO11SL 73 38 18114 688,332 G4ADV/P IO70MM 604 80 10 4* G4HGI IO83PL 81 51 11031 562,581 F6CBH JN19BH 572 25 11 5 G1TWS JO01HO 42 34 5462 185,708 G4ADV/P IO70MM 408 25 11 6 G3YJR IO93FJ 20 19 3504 66,576 G4ADV/P IO70MM 396 60 Yagi Section 6S Pos Call Loc Qso Mults Points Total Best DX Loc Dist Power Ant 1* G0ODQ IO91NQ 81 60 12,667 760,020 GM4CXM IO75TW 525 120 11 2* G4APJ IO83UP 21 21 4,471 93,891 G4ADV/P IO70MM 392 25 9 3 G0GJV IO91OK 31 22 3,513 77,286 F6CBH JN19BH 314 100 9 4 G4XPE IO92GU 20 20 3,469 69,380 M4JJJ IO86GB 379 10 10 Section M Pos Call Loc Qso Mults Points Total Best DX Loc Dist Power Ant Group 1* G4MJS/P IO90JO 531 108 178,919 19,323,252 DH1NHI JO50VF 921 400 4x19,2x9 Victory CG 2* G4SIV/P JO03AD 487 102 166,315 16,964,130 DB8TA/P JN48AB 798 400 6x12,2x12 Five Bells CG 3 G4ZAP/P JO02QV 425 86 142,511 12,255,946 DK1FG JN59OP 773 400 4x12,4x9,17 A1 CG 4 G0VHF/P JO01HW 433 104 114,915 11,951,160 F/G8MBI JN04FT 792 400 4x9,2x9 Villa CG of CRA 5 G3PIA/P IO91FN 387 102 90,489 9,229,878 GM0HTT IO89JC 845 350 2x17 Harwell ARS 6 G0TPH/P IO92JM 275 94 54,260 5,100,440 F8ALX JN06RN 690 200 2x9,15 De Montford University ARS 7 G8SRC/P IO91CL 254 82 55,966 4,589,212 DG7FEQ/PJO40RV 786 400 2x17 SDARC 8 G0DLR JO01EI 176 77 31,493 2,424,961 GM4CXM IO75TW 598 400 15 Culverstone CG 9 G4ADV/P IO70MM 125 58 26,556 1,540,248 GM4JJJ IO86GB 624 400 8/8 Newquay DARS 10 G3YNN/P JO00DX 81 42 8,093 339,906 GM4WLL/PIO85NR 568 25 8 QRZ ARG Sussex 11 GX7WAC/P IO82XI 14 10 868 8,680 G4MJS/P IO90JO 203 25 Colinear Wythall
Comments from the logs
G0GJV:
TVI made this a short 6 hour entry
G0DLR:
Lot of static rain noise on Sunday pm
G0VHF:
QSB! Sunny & fine QSB. Damp QSB. Torrential QSB overnight. Morning promising
QSB. Irish QSB. German QSB. QSB to Birmingham.
G3PIA:
Very nice tropo condx throughout. The Harwell club's return to portable contest
operation after too many years of absence. Lots of cobwebs to be blown off,
but it all seemed to work quite well.
G4APJ:
Not too good on Saturday, due to the rain etc. Obviously I chose the wrong period
for my 6 hours - domestic QRM (shopping!) didn't help. Conditions were much
improved on Sunday. I picked up a few new postal districts, and EI for the first
time this year.
G4IVH:
Operated from an industrial site 1 mile from home, using a 12metre trailer mounted
mast. Condx pretty average, somewhat below during the long period of rain overnight,
and windy too.
G4MJS:
Conditions reasonable but occasional problems with static rain.
Activity level seemed lower than usual. It managed stayed dry during setup and
tear down.
G4XPE:
Very flat conditions with QSB. Some signals seemed to come in stronger about
25 degrees west of the correct beam heading at times. Nice to hear so many stations
active.
G4ZAP:
Terrible; Really weak signals from G with very deep QSB. Lowest best DX I can
remember.
G7RAU:
Had little time to play radio (contests always on busy weekends!!)
G4HGI:
Hard going, a bit of a "grooler"
GM4WLL:
Not a bad contest. Conditions were up and down like the proverbial frilly garments.
Very severe QSb was evident for much of the contest.
GX7WAC:
Surprised to hear / work as many as we did. A few gotaways, and even heard ADV
in the South West. Scout camp special event station weekend for us, although
pleased to get a 'proper' backpackers entry in, plus EU Sprint and Baltic Contest
entries in over the weekend. It was this contest that lost out I'm afraid !
MM0CCC:
A most enjoyable entry was had from The Isle of Tiree. I thought activity levels
were poor from IO85 : however having activated this outpost of the UK I : apprectiate
what difficulties the regulars from the extremities of the north of Scotland
face in completing qso's on 144MHz. It was a case of strike while the iron is
hot for most qso's made, as anyone who came up out of the noise, fell back into
it just as fast.
G3MEH:
Conditions variable, a little above average, with long distance signals popping
up above the noise briefly before disappearing
G4XPE:
Very flat conditions with QSB. Some signals seemed to come in stronger about
25 degrees west of the correct beam heading at times. Nice to hear so mant stations
active.
G4ADV:
QSB on signals