DATE: NOVEMBER 2015 |
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| Tuesday | 3rd November 2015 | 144MHz UK Activity Contest | 2000 - 2230 UTC |
| Saturday-Sunday | 7th-8th November 2015 | 144MHz Marconi CW Contest | 1400 - 1400 UTC |
| Tuesday | 10th November 2015 | 432MHz UK Activity Contest | 2000 - 2230 UTC |
| Wednesday | 11th November 2015 | 80m Club Sprint Contest (SSB) | 2000 - 2100 UTC |
| Saturday | 14th November 2015 | Club Calls Contest (1.8MHz AFS) (SSB) | 2000 - 2300 UTC |
| Tuesday | 17th November 2015 | 1.3GHz UK Activity Contest | 2000 - 2230 UTC |
| Saturday-Sunday | 21st-22nd November 2015 | 2nd 1.8MHz Contest (CW) | 2100 - 0100 UTC |
| Tuesday | 24th November 2015 | 50MHz UK Activity Contest | 2000 - 2230 UTC |
| Tuesday | 24th November 2015 | SHF UK Activity Contest | 2000 - 2230 UTC except 2.3GHz 2030 - 2230 UTC |
| Thursday | 26th November 2015 | 80m Club Sprint Contest (CW) | 2000 - 2100 UTC |
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| Tuesday | 1st December 2015 | 144MHz UK Activity Contest | 2000 - 2230 UTC |
| Sunday | 6th December 2015 | 144MHz AFS Contest | 1000 - 1600 UTC |
| Tuesday | 8th December 2015 | 432MHz UK Activity Contest | 2000 - 2230 UTC |
| Tuesday | 15th December 2015 | 1.3GHz UK Activity Contest | 2000 - 2230 UTC |
| Saturday | 26th December 2015 | 50/70/144/432MHz Christmas Cumulative Contest | 1400 - 1400 UTC |
| Sunday | 27th December 2015 | 50/70/144/432MHz Christmas Cumulative Contest | 1400 - 1400 UTC |
| Monday | 28th December 2015 | 50/70/144/432MHz Christmas Cumulative Contest | 1400 - 1400 UTC |
| Tuesday | 29th December 2015 | 50/70/144/432MHz Christmas Cumulative Contest | 1400 - 1400 UTC |
| Tuesday | 29th December 2015 | 70MHz UK Activity Contest | 2000 - 2230 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 NOVEMBER 2015 (by John G3XDY)
The UK Microwave Group 1.3/2.3/3.4GHz Contest is held on Sunday 15th November from 1000 - 1400 UTC. The full UK Microwave Group contest calendar can be found here.
Following a successful pilot last year, the UK Six Meter Group (UKSMG) will be running a 6 Metre Winter Contest this year. Its aim is
to promote activity during the winter months:
* the contest is a Marathon style event and will be held over a 2 months period commencing the first day in December and ending on the last
day in January (00:00z on 1st December to 00:00z on 31st January)
* there is no contest exchange, however the normal QSO data must be recorded e.g. Date of QSO, Time of QSO (on/off or both), Callsign of station
worked, 4 digit locator of station worked (6 digit locator accepted, but your score will be based on the first 4 digits), QSO frequency in
Megahertz, RS(T) Sent and RS(T) received
* scoring to be 1 point awarded per unique 4 digit locator worked
* logs to be submitted via the UKSMG website in ADIF format. These can be submitted in real time throughout the event, or in total after the
contest end, but before the submission cut off date.
See http://uksmg.org/contest/winter-marathon-rules.php or click here
for full rules and to upload your ADI file.
OTHER EUROPEAN VHF/UHF CONTESTS IN NOVEMBER 2015 (by John G3XDY & Quin G3WRR)
Thanks to Alex IV3KKW for forwarding the rules for the Marconi Memorial CW contest, which follow below between the START and FINISH labels:
START
L' A.R.I. (Associazione Radioamatori Italiani) is proud to invite all I.A.R.U. Region 1 Societies to take part to :
43rd Marconi Memorial Contest VHF
IARU Region 1
November 7th - 8th 2015 (14 :00 - 14 :00 UTC)
The Contest has been organised by A.R.I. to commemorate,as a Man and as a Scientist, GUGLIELMO MARCONI.
1) PARTICIPANTS: All radio amateurs with regular permit to transmit. Participants have to operate in compliance with the rules and the spirit of the contest using an output power not greater than that permitted by their country license.
2) SECTIONS: There are 4 categories :
* Section SINGLE: stations operated by a single operator, with no operational assistance of another person during the contest.
* Section MULTI: stations operated by a multiple operators.
* Section 6 HOURS SINGLE: stations operated by a single operator, with no operational assistance of another person during the contest.
* Section 6 HOURS MULTI: stations operated by a multiple operators.
6 HOURS section time rule:
the 6 hours time segment can be divided into maximum two periods. The time of the first QSO sets the start time of the first period. The pause
between the two periods must be longer than 2 hours. The first time difference of 2 hours or more between two consecutive QSOs marks the pause
segment. Only the QSOs that fall into the combined 6 hours time segment will be counted for points.
A station must operate from the same site for all the contest time.
3) CONTACTS: Each station can be worked only once. The double qso must be marked and identified on the log and the score awarded will
be zero. Contacts made via repeaters or EME will not be considered as valid.
4) BAND and MODE: QSO must be only 2-way on A1A (CW) mode on 144 MHz band only, respecting the IARU Reg. 1 Band Plan.
5) EXCHANGES: The stations have to send the RST and Serial Number starting with 001, followed by the full WWL locator (Example: 599023 JN54QL.)
6) SCORE: One point will be charged for each kilometer in the qrb of the qso.. The final score obtained with the sum of each qso score
should be indicated in your log entry.
7) LOG: Logs will be accepted only in electronic format. The logs must be submitted with all complete data summaries, by email, only
in .EDI format, and the file must be named with your callsign (eg. IZ4YDN.EDI)
8) ENTRIES : Logs must be sent only to the National VHF Manager or National VHF Contest Manager not later than the second Monday following
the contest weekend (November 16th ). Late entries will not be accepted. The submission of the logs implies that the entrant accepts all the IARU
contest rules.
Photos, comments and remarks about the contest will be appreciated and they will be published on internet and magazines.
All national managers have to send all collected logs to mmc.vhf@gmail.com not later than 7th Monday after contest date (December 21st 2015).
9) JUDGING OF ENTRIES : The judging of entries is carried out by the MMC Contest Committee, whose decision shall be final, participants can
ask information about errors. Entrants deliberately contravening any of the rules disregarding the IARU Region 1 band plans shall be disqualified.
Errors in the callsign and contest exchanges or with a delay time more than 10minutes will be penalized by reducing the score claimed for the
pertaining contact.
10) FINAL CLASSIFICATIONS :The Committee will perform full computer cross checks on all the received logs and will publish the final results
not later than the fourteenth Sunday after the contest on their web site (February 14th 2016).
A List of received logs (with callsign and category) will be published on ARI Bologna web-site at the end of January. The list of results should include
at least the following data: Callsign, Locator, Score, number of QSOs, number of deleted QSOs, percentage of deleted points, ODX call sign, ODX Locator
and ODX QRB.
ARI Bologna will publish the official results on their web site and send the results to the ARI VHF Manager to send to Webmaster of the IARU Region I
web site for publication. These results shall also be sent in electronic format to all VHF Managers and/or Contest Committees of Societies who sent
logs and also to the Chairman of Region 1 VHF/UHF/Microwave Committee, not later five months after the contest took place (April 8h 2016).
11) AWARDS : The 3 (three) top scores of each section will be prized " MARCONI PLATE" by ARI Bologna.
12) PRIZING CERIMONY : The prizes will be given to the winners during HamRadio Messe in Friedrichshafen (D) at ARI Official Booth
on Saturday June 25th 2016 at 13:00 .
MMC CONTEST COMMITTEE
Michele IZ4YDN - Alex IV3KKW - Franco I4LCK
FINISH
Those considering an entry in this contest may wish to note that Miha S51FB (the ZRS VHF Manager) is making a live scoring board available. Further
information can be obtained via the SLOVHF website at http://www.slovhf.net/index.php or by clicking here.
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A co-ordinated calendar of IARU Region 1 VHF Contests for 2015 is available
here.
OTHER HF CONTESTS IN OCTOBER 2015 (by Quin G3WRR)
For more data on a wide range HF contests, the SM3CER and WA7BNM
websites are very useful sources of information.
Another useful source of HF contest information is at http://www.hb9dhg.ch , which can be reached by clicking
here, and selecting "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
4th 144MHz Backpackers
144MHz Low Power
432MHz Low Power
144MHz Trophy
80m Club Sprint (CW)
Low Power
IOTA Provisional
SSB FD
144MHz Backpackers Championship
VHF Championship
IOTA PROVISIONAL RESULTS (by Quin G3WRR)
The IOTA provisional results are now avaiable at http://www.iotacontest.com/contest/iota/2015/finalScore.php?c1=a&c2=a&c3=m&c4=a&c5=a
or by clicking here.
MINUTES OF SEPTEMBER 2015 CC MEETING (by Quin G3WRR)
The minutes of the most recent CC meeting, held on 15 September 2015, are now on the CC website
here.
AND FINALLY (by Quin G3WRR)
Apart from the regular features, it's a rather thin Newsletter this month - but perhaps that's no bad thing after a busy summer! It was good to meet many of you at Kent's Hill earlier in the last month - and in some cases to put the face to the callsign after many years. That's all for this month - good contesting to you all.
73, Quin G3WRR
For RSGB Contest Committee