These are the results for the first set of the activity contests which now run almost every Tuesday night on one band or another. These events are a great source of activity on a weekday evening, and are now only 2.5 hours long, making for a short, sharp, operating session. They are also co-ordinated with activity contests elsewhere in Europe on the same evenings, and this makes for good levels of activity. This is demonstrated in the results below, with leading stations making over 100 QSOs per night, and almost everyone working well into Europe, even with small stations. There were a few small auroras during these events, and this helped Clive O'Hennessy, GM4VVX make good QSOs from his home station right in the North of Scotland. It also helped some other stations to make good DX.
Andy Cook, G4PIQ wins the Single Operator fixed section, and Roger Piper, G3MEH takes the runner-up slot, ousting Nigel Wilson, G4VVZ operating G4ZAP by making the most of his chances from operating 11 from the 12 sessions. Alan Horne, G0TPH takes the certificate for leading station with 25W and a single antenna, and, as usual, Frank Laanen, PE1EWR wins the leading overseas station award.
The Open section was not well supported this year - largely due to the Foot & Mouth outbreak in 2001, but Dave Hewitt, G8ZRE operated portable from both Wales and England to win. Second place was shared by a multi operator entry by G0NFA and M0BTZ, and Tim Boon, M0AFC going out single handed portable in January!
The VHFCC would like to apologise for the enormous amount of time that has passed between the end of this set of contests and the results appearing which was caused by some unique circumstances for the committee. We have also had some problems with paper and disk based logs for this event and are concerned that there maybe a small number of missing entries. If you find yourself omitted from the table, please contact me (vhfcc.chairman@rsgb.org.uk or QTHR) and I'll correct the situation. I can assure you that we'll work hard to ensure that this does not happen again.
Andy Cook, G4PIQ.
Single Operator Fixed Section Pos Call Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Score QSO Pwr Ant Best DX km 1* G4PIQ 0 0 0 3729 0 4992 3815 2639 2580 4033 3366 0 6000 762 400 4 x 15Y + 2 x 9Y SK0UX 1362 2* G3MEH 969 1125 1638 0 2250 1554 1323 1008 1152 1628 1060 1134 5285 776 400 2 x 10Y DG2NBN 865 3 G4ZAP 1105 1170 0 1400 1440 0 1470 1110 1541 0 1365 1105 4632 651 400 2 x 12Y + 17Y DK5DQ 678 4 G0WLY 451 1044 756 728 816 0 312 342 288 672 800 516 2817 580 150 11Y DG2NBN 813 5 G4ZTR 492 855 1008 1102 0 0 0 1007 0 0 0 0 2469 266 100 12Y DL3YCW 531 6 G8HGN 270 645 756 960 782 915 748 935 615 646 0 390 2316 499 150 2 x 15Y DG2NBN 788 7 G0UJK 0 663 504 637 0 0 0 351 160 0 0 0 1240 220 50 11Y GM1XOI 553 8 G8ZRE 308 279 224 150 560 0 238 176 0 0 324 147 1129 267 80 8Y ON1ALJ 515 9 G6GEC 0 0 0 270 351 374 0 225 0 736 288 507 1031 265 100 8Y DO1YDS 578 10 G0DVJ 0 0 0 98 448 0 0 77 0 0 276 243 551 114 50 5Y DG6PY/P 446 11 G3YJR 0 184 0 98 648 20 35 24 98 80 0 0 539 127 70 9Y DK5DQ 645 12* G0TPH 0 336 0 225 0 0 0 0 0 136 0 0 381 71 25 9Y DK5DQ 606 13 G4APJ 171 0 126 102 150 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 326 73 25 9Y ON1ALJ 510 14 G1ZJP 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 330 291 34 400 4 x 9Y DK5DQ 538 15 M5FUN 0 0 0 248 0 0 0 270 0 374 98 0 291 116 50 9Y DK5DQ 489 16* PE1EWR 0 0 207 240 0 66 0 32 0 0 0 0 216 73 80 10Y G4ZAP 417 17 M0AFC 0 0 0 360 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 97 43 50 13Y DK5DQ 710 18 M1CNK 0 60 0 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 62 21 50 12Y ON1ALJ 346 19 GM4VVX 0 0 4 9 25 9 16 0 0 70 0 0 39 27 400 10Y SK4AO 1166 20 GW8ASA 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 75 0 0 19 16 18 7Y G4PIQ 324 Open Section Pos Call Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Score QSO Pwr Ant Best DX km 1* G(W)8ZRE/P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 828 780 0 0 2000 52 25 7Y ON1DO 502 2=* G0NFA 0 585 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1000 50 50 17Y DD9EN 534 3=* M0AFC/P 340 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1000 34 25 13Y G4RRA 374 4 GW8ASA/P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 546 0 0 0 659 44 50 5Y ON4YZ 579 5 G6FFB/P 0 370 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 632 45 50 17Y PD0PSO 558 6 G0DVJ/P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 465 0 0 0 562 33 50 17Y DG4XD 639