This contest is run over 12 monthly sessions on 23cm and 13cm. In total, 12 stations (3 multi-operator and/or portable stations) completed for the top spot this year. A few sessions yielded excellent DX.
A few complaints were received during the year concerning the use of Internet chat rooms and the DX Cluster to set-up contacts and to pass or confirm reports, serial numbers and locators. Competitors are reminded that the General Rules for VHF Contests prohibits the passing of all such information via chat rooms or the DX Cluster. Also prohibited is persistent self-spotting by the entrant or any close associate in chat rooms or on the DX Cluster.
This year, the clear winner of the Single Operator section on 23cm and 13 cm is John Quarmby, G3XDY, who managed to score 6000 points on both bands. The runner-up in the Single Operator section, again on both bands, is Neil Whiting, G4BRK.
In the Open section, the winners on both 23cm and 13cm were the South Birmingham Radio Society, G8OHM. The runner-up on 23cm in the Open section was the single operator portable station of Steve Bunting, M0BPQ.
The Leading 25W/Single Antenna award on 23cm goes to Graham Coyne, G3YJR.
The Leading Overseas Station award on 23cm and 13cm and the Leading 25W/Single Antenna award on 13cm goes to Frank Laanen, PE1EWR.
Ian Pawson, G0FCT g0fct@vhfcc.org
Section O 20/01 17/02 16/03 20/04 18/05 15/06 20/07 17/08 21/09 19/10 16/11 21/12 Pos Callsign Loc QSOs ODX km Total Score Score Score Score Score Score Score Score Score Score Score Score Pwr Ant Equip 1* G8OHM(/P) IO92AJ/IO82QL 70 PA5DD 455 6000 133 0 0 0 29008 6608 0 3005 8302 0 7866 5430 130 4 x 23el IC910H+PA 2* M0BPQ/P IO91WP 26 PA5DD 336 3264 0 282 0 0 2358 594 1875 0 0 2043 0 512 8 23el FT847+tvtr 3 G3TCT IO91TG 11 G4DEZ 216 833 0 0 0 0 0 5510 0 0 0 0 0 0 18 35el IC706+G3WDG Tvtr Section SF 20/01 17/02 16/03 20/04 18/05 15/06 20/07 17/08 21/09 19/10 16/11 21/12 Pos Callsign Loc QSOs ODX km Total Score Score Score Score Score Score Score Score Score Score Score Score Pwr Ant Equip 1* G3XDY JO02OB 149 SK7MW 861 6000 34254 36390 5260 37386 96456 28467 50270 0 60892 39850 40370 0 250 4 x 23el IC756+Tvtr+PA 2* G4BRK IO91DP 112 DF9IC 799 4183 8970 0 0 2452 47113 28818 21852 0 80115 47344 0 0 40 67el FT290+DB6NT Tvtr 3 G3MEH IO91QS 80 DJ5BV 548 1977 0 0 492 0 13111 6246 9618 7560 10857 14224 0 0 50 4 x 44el IC275E + DB6NT Tvtr 4 G4DEZ JO03AE 70 OZ1FF 588 1672 2544 2072 0 4285 7116 13125 11160 5400 7506 0 0 0 100 4 x 23el IC1271E+PA 5* G3YJR IO93FJ 23 G4KIY 133 1085 290 73 0 0 0 1059 1164 108 330 0 0 55 7 44el FT290+LT23S 6 M5ADF IO91TO 8 G4BRK 93 677 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 119 202 35 37 2 34el FT817+MM1296 7* PE1EWR JO11SL 29 M0GHZ 399 188 408 528 0 798 2532 1410 408 0 3681 1656 174 0 10 2 x 25el TS790 8 GW4DGU IO71SV 4 G3XDY 389 45 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3616 0 0 0 60 17.4WL Home Brew 9 G0UPU IO91AX 1 G4MAP 38 7 0 0 38 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 35 FT736 * certificate winner
Section O 20/01 17/02 16/03 20/04 18/05 15/06 20/07 17/08 21/09 19/10 16/11 21/12 Pos Callsign Loc QSOs ODX km Total Score Score Score Score Score Score Score Score Score Score Score Score Pwr Ant Equip 1* G8OHM IO92AJ 1 G4BRK 86 1000 86 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 30 67el IC-790H+Tvtr Section SF 20/01 17/02 16/03 20/04 18/05 15/06 20/07 17/08 21/09 19/10 16/11 21/12 Pos Callsign Loc QSOs ODX km Total Score Score Score Score Score Score Score Score Score Score Score Score Pwr Ant Equip 1* G3XDY JO02OB 53 DL3YEE 501 6000 0 794 5260 13488 29296 5845 11760 0 4144 1834 622 0 120 0.6m dish FT736R+LMW Tvtr 2* G4BRK IO91DP 35 PA3CEG 577 4082 2436 0 0 1077 6645 1740 6582 0 7308 1940 0 0 30 0.8m dish FT290+DB6NT Tvtr 3* PE1EWR JO11SL 9 G3XDY 174 660 0 174 0 488 341 0 174 0 174 174 174 0 7 25el IC260E+MKU23G2 4 G3MEH IO91QS 14 PA5DD 368 507 0 0 492 0 4168 412 1722 0 412 0 0 0 10 2 x 67el IC275E + DB6NT Tvtr 5 G0UPU IO91AX 1 G4MAP 38 7 0 0 38 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0.75m dish FT290+HB Tvtr * certificate winner