DATE: SEPTEMBER 2015 |
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March,
March special,
April,
May,
June,
July,
August.
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| Tuesday | 1st September 2015 | 144MHz UK Activity Contest | 1900 - 2130 UTC |
| Saturday-Sunday | 5th-6th September 2015 | SSB Field Day (SSB, 3.5/7/14/21/28 MHz) | 1300 - 1300 UTC |
| Saturday-Sunday | 5th-6th September 2015 | 144MHz Trophy Contest | 1400 - 1400 UTC |
| Sunday | 6th September 2015 | 5th 144MHZ Backpackers Contest | 1100 - 1500 UTC |
| Tuesday | 8th September 2015 | 432MHz UK Activity Contest | 1900 - 2130 UTC |
| Wednesday | 9th September 2015 | 80m Club Sprint Contest (SSB) | 1900 - 2000 UTC |
| Tuesday | 15th September 2015 | 1.3GHz UK Activity Contest | 1900 - 2130 UTC |
| Sunday | 20th September 2015 | 2nd 70MHz Contest | 0900 - 1200 UTC |
| Tuesday | 22nd September 2015 | 50MHz UK Activity Contest | 1900 - 2130 UTC |
| Tuesday | 22nd September 2015 | SHF UK Activity Contest | 1900 - 2130 UTC except 2.3GHz 1930 - 2130 UTC |
| Thursday | 24th September 2015 | 80m Club Sprint Contest (CW) | 1900 - 2000 UTC |
| Tuesday | 29th September 2015 | 70MHz UK Activity Contest | 1900 - 2130 UTC |
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| Saturday | 3rd October 2015 | 1.2GHz Trophy /2.3GHz Trophy Contest | 1400 - 2200 UTC |
| Saturday-Sunday | 3rd-4th October 2015 | October 432MHz - 248 GHz Contest | 1400 - 1400 UTC |
| Sunday | 4th October 2015 | 21/28MHz Contest (SSB/CW/mixed) | 0700 - 1900 UTC |
| Tuesday | 6th October 2015 | 144MHz UK Activity Contest | 1900 - 2130 UTC |
| Tuesday | 13th October 2015 | 432MHz UK Activity Contest | 1900 - 2130 UTC |
| Wednesday | 14th October 2015 | 80m Club Sprint Contest (CW) | 1900 - 2000 UTC |
| Sunday | 18th October 2015 | 50MHz AFS Contest | 0900 - 1300 UTC |
| Tuesday | 20th October 2015 | 1.3GHz UK Activity Contest | 1900 - 2130 UTC |
| Tuesday | 27th October 2015 | 50MHz UK Activity Contest | 2000 - 2230 UTC |
| Tuesday | 27th October 2015 | SHF UK Activity Contest | 2000 - 2230 UTC except 2.3GHz 2030 - 2230 UTC |
| Thursday | 29th October 2015 | 80m Club Sprint Contest (SSB) | 2000 - 2100 UTC |
The full 2015 RSGB contest calendars and rules for the above contests are available
here (HF)
and here (VHF).
Provisional HF and VHF calendars for 2016 are available here (HF)
and here (VHF).
OTHER UK VHF/UHF CONTESTS IN SEPTEMBER 2015 (by John G3XDY)
The following UK Microwave Group contests take place this September:
| Sunday | 13th September 2015 | UK Microwave Group 24/47GHz Contest | 0900 - 1700 UTC |
| Sunday | 27th September 2015 | UK Microwave Group 5.7/10 GHz Contest | 0600 - 1800 UTC |
The rules, and full UK Microwave Group contest calendar, can be found here
OTHER EUROPEAN VHF/UHF CONTESTS IN SEPTEMBER 2015 (by John G3XDY & Quin G3WRR)
A co-ordinated calendar of IARU Region 1 VHF Contests for 2015 is available
here.
With thanks to Leon ON5WL, the rules of the 2015 ON Contest are given below:
Rules for non-ON stations.
The Mechelen (MCL) Club of the UBA invites all amateurs to take part in the ON Contest 2015.
Dates and times : some times have changed:-
* 27 September 2015: 7 to 10 UTC : 6 m Fone and CW
* 4 October 2015: 6 to 10 UTC :80 m SSB
* 11 October 2015: 6 to 9 UTC :80 m CW
* 18 October 2015: 6 to 10 UTC : 2 m Phone and CW.
Rules:
* Only contacts with ON stations are permitted
* Exchange : RS(T) + serialnumber starting at 001
* ON stations also give their club code. e.g. 59001 MCL
* Each QSO with ON counts 3 points
* Each club worked gives one multiplier
* In each part of the contest the winners from each country receive an award, if they made at least 25 valid QSOs
* Cabrillo logs preferred
* Send your logs not later than 3 weeks after the contest to:
Welters Leon ON5WL
Borgstraat 80
B 2580 Beerzel
Belgium.
e-mail : ubaon@uba.be
OTHER HF CONTESTS IN SEPTEMBER 2015 (by Quin G3WRR)
The CWops - CW Open Competition, sponsored by the CW Operators' Club, is held on Saturday 5th September. Rules are available at http://www.cwops.org/cwopen.html or by clicking here.
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
70MHz UKAC
144MHz UKAC
432MHz UKAC
1.3GHz UKAC
SHF UKAC
Overall UKAC
1st 50MHz
2nd 144MHz Backpackers
3rd 144MHz Backpackers
VHF NFD
80m CC (CW)
80m CC (SSB)
80m CC (data)
80m CC Overall - final
AFS CW - update
HF NFD
144MHz Backpackers Championship
SUPPLEMENTARY 2015 WHITE PAPER (by Quin G3WRR)
Following the 22nd July Presidential Review meeting (the output of which is available here, as reported in last month's Newsletter) a Supplementary White Paper is to be issued (indeed by the time you read this, it may already have
been issued.....this will be notified via the UK contest reflectors). The Supplementary White Paper will address two topics:
* use of MGM in VHF contests
* possible alternatives to M5/M7 multiplier schemes.
In order to allow responses to be analysed, decisions made, and the outcome promulgated via for the 2016 rules, responses by 23:59 on 25th
September are sought.
NEW APPOINTMENTS TO THE CONTEST COMMITTEE (by Ian G0FCT)
One of the recommendations of the President's Review was that two new posts (HF Representative and VHF Representative) be created on
the Contest Committee to look after the broader strategic issues surrounding HF and V/UHF contests. The people filling these posts would
be responsible for leading the development of ideas and rules for existing and new contests, for setting the objectives for RSGB contests
and for recommending changes to the RSGB contest calendar if the contest objectives are not being met.
I am pleased to announce that Nick Totterdell G4FAL and Andy Cook G4PIQ have agreed to join the Contest Committee as the HF Representative
and VHF Representative respectively.
ENTRIES FOR NEW 6H CATEGORY IN IARU VHF CONTESTS (by Quin G3WRR)
Entrants in IARU VHF contests will probably be aware that a new category, 6H, has been introduced. In connection with this, the CC Chairman
has received an e-mail from the Chairman of the IARU Region 1 C5 Committee. As its contents may affect UK entrants in the new category,
the e-mail is repeated verbatim below:
"Hello, Like you know we added a new category, 6H class, for the IARU VHF contests. The contest robot is ready for this and we tested it
during the July contest, in cooperation with the S5 contest robot. We did find a little problem: Some contesters who are contesting in the
6H class, are competing more than 6H but only send the logs with only the 6H. This is confusing for the robots, because the QSO’s out of the
6H are rejected for the stations who are working 24 hours. So please inform you members that they should be sending the complete log. We will
correct this during the upcoming meetings. Please inform you members who want to compete in the upcoming contests:
"Every participant that is planning to enter the 6H category MUST send his complete LOG even if he operated longer than 6 hours. Only first
6 active hours will be used for score evaluation, while the rest of the log (if at all) will be used for cross-check purposes".
73 and good luck
ON4AVJ
Chairman IARU-R1 C5 committee"
USE OF UBNs (by Pete G4CLA)
UBNs are made available to RSGB contest entrants so that they can see where they have made logging errors, and thereby
improve the accuracy of their operating / logging in future. However one of the VHF adjudicators has observed that few entrants seem
to be taking advantage of this opportunity. You are accordingly reminded that this facility exists, and encouraged to use it to
reduce points lost from your entries!
The e-mail sent out by the robot after log submission contains a link to all the UBNs for contests entered using that e-mail address. The
e-mail also contains the username and passcode needed for access. If entrants subscribe to the results e-mail when they enter a contest
(the default) then when the results are published they again receive an e-mail containing the link to all their UBNs as well as their
username and passcode. Further information on UBNs is available here.
FIELD DAY PICTURES - REPEAT REQUEST ! (by Quin G3WRR)
Last month's request for pictures from VHF and HF Field Days for inclusion in the forthcoming reports in Radcom has, without putting too fine a point
upon it, resulted in no response! Anyone with suitable pictures is asked to e-mail them to:
(VHF NFD) - g8iys@rsgbcc.org
(HF NFD) - g3wrr@rsgbcc.org.
Thank you!
That's all for this month - good contesting to you all!
73, Quin G3WRR
For RSGB Contest Committee