Regrettably the change of date from July to early August failed to bring good conditions! Activity was up on last year, though, with many entrants making more QSO’s in this year’s four hour contest than in last year’s six hours, and the entry level was up from 16 to 23. It was pleasing to see a good number of portable stations active. Losing a QSO during adjudication in a multiplier contest can lose entrants one or more multipliers as well as the QSO points, especially in shorter logs with, inevitably, less spare multiplier QSO’s. A few entrants with logging errors unfortunately suffered considerable reductions to their claimed scores as a result. The Single operator Fixed section was won by last year’s runner up, Bryn Llewellyn G4DEZ, with John Hall G0ODQ taking second place and relegating last year’s winner, Roger Piper G3MEH, into third place. Geoff Morris, as GW3ATZ/P, repeated last year’s win of the Single operator Others section with R. Price GW4EVX/P in second place. A1 Contest group G4ZAP/P held onto their position as winners of the Multi-operator section with Colchester CG of Colchester RA’s in second place. Certificates are also awarded to Frank Laanen PE1EWR for being the highest placed SF overseas entrant, James Beatwell 2E1GUA for being the highest placed SF intermediate class entrant and 2E0EBV and 2E0FMS as operators of 2E0EBV/P, the highest placed Multi-operator intermediate entrant.
Roger Piper G3MEH
Section SF
Club/Group Pos Call Loc QSO's Mults Score Best DX Loc Dist Pwr Ant 1* G4DEZ JO03AE 44 49 420518 DF2VJ JN39LI 642 25 4x28Y 2* G0ODQ IO91NQ 30 42 211848 GI4SNA IO64XM 467 25 2x21Y
3 G3MEH IO91QS 33 45 205830 DF2VJ JN39LI 599 25 2x21Y
4 G4APJ IO83UP 24 33 154407 G8SRL JO01ED 332 25 19 ele
5 G8SRL JO01ED 19 28 92568 DF2VJ JN39LI 509 25 2x21Y
6 G1KHX IO81MI 15 26 74906 G0TMT/P JO02QT 338 10 19Y
7* PE1EWR JO11SL 12 20 63360 GW3ATZ/P IO82KW 482 13.5 2x21Y
8 M5ADF IO91TO 14 24 44736 G3IZD/P IO84KD 338 25 21Y
9 G4AGE IO93IF 14 20 38160 G8SRL JO01ED 258 25 21Y
10* 2E1GUA JO01FR 8 13 9971 M0BRA/P IO80ST 227 20 19Y
Section SO Club/Group Pos Call Loc QSO's Mults Score Best DX Loc Dist Pwr Ant 1* GW3ATZ/P IO82KW 48 54 512946 PA3AWJ JO21GW 531 10 18 PBM
2* GW4EVX/P IO83JF 28 33 127776 M1CRO/P JO01PU 341 5 19Y
3 G4VRC/P IO90IW 21 31 101494 PA5KM JO11WL 336 3 15Y
4 G0OIW/P IO91HH 20 29 73022 G4APJ IO83UP 267 5 6Y
5 G3IZD/P IO84KD 13 21 62055 G4VRC/P IO90NW 388 10 15Y
6 G6GVI/P IO81UN 15 23 46276 M1CRO/P JO01PU 249 10 ZL7
Section M
Club/Group Pos Call Loc QSO's Mults Score Best DX Loc Dist Pwr Ant A1 CG 1* G4ZAP/P IO93EH 68 72 921600 DF2VJ JN39LI 740 25 2x28 + 2x28 + col
Colchester CG 2* M1CRO/P JO01PU 60 59 730597 F9IE IN86WW 600 25 4x21Y
Five Bells CG 3 G4SIV IO92WS 46 57 525084 DF2VJ JN39LI 624 25 4x28Y + vert
Bracknell ARC 4 M0BRA/P IO80ST 43 52 454480 PE1EWR JO11SL 425 25 4x21Y
Coulsdon ATS 5 G4FUR/P IO91XG 55 57 444714 DF2VJ JN39LI 541 25 19Y
6 G0TMT/P JO02QT 23 33 182490 F6ARC/P IN97HV 580 25 2x19Y
7* 2E0EBV/P JO01DP 18 25 40425 PA5KM JO11WL 248 20 48 XY
Check log
G8ZK/P IO93NF 11 17 15453 G0ODQ IO91NQ 171
PA5KM JO11WL 11 22 68662 GW3ATZ/P IO82KW 504
* Certificate winners
2E1GUA
Good start but 3 hours nothing on 70cm
G1KHX
Average, deep QSB.
GW3ATZ/P
Terrible condx. Activity dropped off after 11.30 Sun shone flys buzzed.!!
G3IZD/P
Started well then my rig refused to accept any external power so QRT Was looking fwd to a longer contest Hi
G3MEH
Conditions quite good for the first hour or so but rather poor for the second half.
G4APJ
Average conditions. Same best contact as last year. Heard a few that I couldn't get, mainly because they were working someone else! Nothing much from the North.
G4DEZ
Lousy conditions and activity! usual slow going
GW4EVX/P
Only 3 contacts in the final hour.Amplifier on order did not arrive in time so had to use just 5W :-(
G4FUR/P
Another very quiet event Apparent loss of opening at 1100hrs
G4SIV
As 2m except for a moment of excitement when we lost all Rx and had to lower & luff the tower to repair masthead system (less than 20 mins)!
G4VRC/P
Very hot and sunny, also quite windy at times. Some good contacts but very quiet towards end.
G6GVI/P
Warm and sunny, but with a strong breeze - I had to chase my log-sheet down
the road at one point!
Deep QSB was noted on most signals.
G8SRL
Not much DX and not a lot of activity.
M0BRA/P
Started OK, then died
M1CRO/P
Interesting, variable conditions throughout the day.
M5ADF
Good start, difficult towards the end