DATE: DECEMBER 2014 - UP-ISSUE
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PREVIOUS NEWSLETTERS: 2013 -- January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December 2014 --
January,
February,
March,
April,
April special,
May,
May special,
June,
July,
August,
September,
October,
October special,
November,
December.
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| Tuesday | 2nd December 2014 | 144MHz UK Activity Contest | 2000 - 2230 UTC |
| Sunday | 7th December 2014 | 144MHz AFS Contest | 1000 - 1600 UTC |
| Tuesday | 9th December 2014 | 432MHz UK Activity Contest | 2000 - 2230 UTC |
| Tuesday | 16th December 2014 | 1.3GHz UK Activity Contest | 2000 - 2230 UTC |
| Friday - Monday | 26th - 29th December 2014 | 50/70/144/432 MHz Christmas Cumulatives Contest | 1400 - 1600 UTC |
| Tuesday | 30th December 2014 | 70MHz UK Activity Contest | 2000 - 2230 UTC |
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| Tuesday | 6th January 2015 | 144MHz UK Activity Contest | 2000 - 2230 UTC |
| Sunday | 11th January 2015 | AFS Contest CW (3.5MHz) | 1400 - 1800 UTC |
| Tuesday | 13th January 2015 | 432MHz UK Activity Contest | 2000 - 2230 UTC |
| Saturday | 17th January 2015 | AFS Contest SSB (3.5&7MHz) | 1400 - 1800 UTC |
| Tuesday | 20th January 2015 | 1.3GHz UK Activity Contest | 2000 - 2230 UTC |
| Tuesday | 27th January 2015 | 50MHz UK Activity Contest | 2000 - 2230 UTC |
| Tuesday | 27th January 2015 | SHF UK Activity Contest | 2000 - 2230 UTC except 2.3GHz 2030 - 2230 UTC |
The full 2014 & 2015 RSGB contest calendars and rules for the above contests are available, or linked to, from here (HF) and here (VHF).
OTHER EUROPEAN VHF/UHF CONTESTS IN DECEMBER 2014 (by John G3XDY)
OTHER HF CONTESTS IN DECEMBER 2014 (by Quin G3WRR)
For more data on a wide range HF contests, the SM3CER website is a very useful source of information.
Another useful source of HF contest information is at http://www.hb9dhg.ch , which can be reached by clicking
here, and clicking on "Contest Calendar".
RECENT RESULTS (by Quin G3WRR & John G3XDY)
The following results have been published or updated since
the previous Newsletter:
50MHz UKAC
144MHz UKAC
432MHz UKAC
1.3GHz UKAC
SHF UKAC
Overall UKAC
144MHz Trophy
144MHz CW Marconi
IOTA (Final results)
80m Club Sprint (SSB)
VHF Championship
VHF CW Championship (Final results)
CHAIRMAN'S CORNER (by Ian G0FCT)
The RSGB HF & VHF Contest Calendars for 2015 are now available here
(HF) and here (VHF). The rules for nearly all the individual contests are
available via links from their respective Calendars. In a small number of cases the rules are not available at the time of writing. These will be updated over the
next few weeks, together with some of the FAQs and "Dos & Don'ts".
The 'White Paper' consultation conducted between May and August this year has proved to be very useful in gathering the view of contesters. A similar consultation is planned for 2015.
The Special Contest Calls CC page has been updated recently and now lists all currently issued SCCs.
INTRODUCTION OF M7 MULTIPLIER SCHEME (by Quin G3WRR)
Entrants to the UKACs may wish to note that the new M7 scoring regime (to be introduced for the 2015 UKACs) is, at the time of writing, only supported by the CC's own on line logger. However Minos will follow in early December, and other loggers are expected to do likewise in due course. In the meantime, entrants can be reassured that multipliers gained and overall claimed scores will be calculated by the CC robot at upload time. All logs are rescored during adjudication, and the claimed score in the log is ignored by the adjudication software. Therefore so as long as the logging programme produces a file in an acceptable format with all of the required QSO data, it does not matter if an incorrect claimed score is included in the submitted log.
Well, that's another year nearly done and dusted. Hopefully it was a good one for you - on contesting and all other fronts. The Contest Committee would like to take this opportunity to wish you and yours an enjoyable Christmas and an excellent 2015.
That's all for this month - good contesting to you all!
73, Quin G3WRR
For RSGB Contest Committee