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    Radio Society of Great Britain. Official HF Contest Results

    Results - 2nd 1.8MHz Contest 2007

    Section A - UK
    Posn. Callsign Qso Bonus
    Points
    1 GM3POI 227 84 1093
    2 G3LET 230 78 1061
    3 G4TSH 222 79 1041
    4 GM0GAV 223 74 999
    5 G4FNL 192 75 945
    6 G4BJM 173 77 904
    7 G3SJJ 185 73 900
    8 G4RCG 179 72 878
    9 G3ZGC/A 168 73 861
    10 GW3SQX 161 72 837
    11 G3RXP 152 72 805
    12 G3PDH 140 69 749
    13 G3LDI 148 68 735
    14 M0AAA 137 64 728
    15 G3ORY 142 64 718
    16= G3KLH 132 68 689
    16= GM4FAM 130 61 689
    18 G0MTN 122 63 664
    19 GW3KDB 119 61 640
    20 GM4BRN 123 63 636
    21 G3RSD 110 63 628
    22 G3VYI 106 62 625
    23 GW0GEI 112 62 624
    24 G4FAL 111 62 621
    25 G3XGC 122 63 620
    26 G3GLL 108 60 610
    27 G4EBK 104 61 609
    28 GM3YEH 101 63 607
    29 G4BUW 118 61 596
    30= G3UJE 109 56 588
    30= G3UFY 103 59 588
    32 GM4AFF 103 56 573
    33 G3KKP 92 56 542
    34 G3SWC 91 61 538
    35 G3JRM 83 52 503
    36 G4DDL 78 48 460
    37 G3LIK 75 50 448
    38 GW8IZR 64 47 411
    39 G0ADH 60 45 389
    40 GM3JKS* 64 39 387
    41 G3HEJ 60 39 372
    42 G3HKO 49 39 314
    43 G3WRR 47 36 310
    44 G4HSO 36 28 240
    45 G3GMM 33 28 228
    46 G4CKH 31 23 207
    47 M0CNP 25 24 179
    48 G3RVM 25 20 175
    49 G3YMC* 18 14 124
    50 M0COP* 16 15 123
    51 G2FSR 10 10 64
    Section B - Overseas
    Posn. Callsign QSOs Bonus
    Points
    1 EI5DI 92 55 534
    2 SM5MX 54 38 336
    3 SQ1K 50 36 322
    4 DK2FG 48 33 303
    5 OK1AYY 48 36 302
    6 OH2K 41 34 290
    7 DK3UZ 44 34 286
    8 S57DX 42 33 283
    9 DL7DZ 44 32 281
    10 OK1FKD 41 32 275
    11 DL5KUD* 36 30 258
    12 PA3EMN 41 30 254
    13= EI7CC* 37 28 251
    13= UA2FL 38 29 251
    15 OR4W 38 30 248
    16 EI7GY 35 27 232
    17 DK8EY* 32 27 231
    18 RV1CC 34 27 226
    19 OK1DEC 33 26 221
    20 OK3C* 30 26 220
    21 OZ7BQ 29 26 209
    22 PA0FAW 30 25 207
    23 PA0LOU 34 25 203
    24 PG7V* 27 22 201
    25 OM4JD 32 26 191
    26 OH8VJ 30 25 188
    27 SP3MGM 29 24 183
    28= OK2BIU 26 19 161
    28= SP3VT 23 20 161
    30 SP3GTS 23 19 156
    31 SM5QU 21 17 155
    32 SP9KRT 23 20 134
    33 RX3AEX 18 70 123
    34 DL2ZA 18 12 108
    35 DL1NEO* 15 12 105
    36 UA1PAC/1* 13 12 99
    37 DK4WF* 12 11 91
    38= K1ESE* 11 9 88
    38= PA0FEI 12 11 88
    40 ON3AD 15 11 87
    41 S59T* 10 9 75
    42 DL7ULF 21 17 62
    43= F5CQ 8 6 56
    43= RA6MQ 9 8 56
    45= RW3AI 6 6 40
    45= UA4AQL 6 6 40
    45= W6UB 6 4 40
    48 VE3CUI* 4 3 32
    49 N2WN 4 2 27
    50 US0QG* 2 1 16
    51= RN3AKK* 1 2 8
    51= UA0CW 2 2 8
    2nd 1.8 MHz Contest 2007

    This was a fantastic contest entry - with 103 logs received plus 2 checklogs from ON5JD and UA9MQR. This is the highest quantity of logs for over seven years, and is an increase of 32% on the 1st event in February 2007. The contest is clearly popular, but there were some comments from competitors suggesting that the last hour was a little slow going.

    Good openings to the USA and to Russia were experienced (although you had to ensure that you didn’t miss out of working the Eastern European and Russian stations before they went to bed!). John K1ESE was a welcome new entrant. He was testing out a newly installed 2el fixed full-sized quad for 160m.

    In Section A,  (UK), the leader and winner of the Victor Desmond trophy and also the Maitland Trophy is Clive Penna GM3POI from way up in Orkney. Someone really needs to seriously challenge this guy and stop his shack shelf from being overburdened with all this trophy hardware. Who will it be in 2008?  Clive scored 1093 points and had a clear 32 point lead over runner-up Peter Hobbs, G3LET, who was using his very high sloping wire, with newly installed ground radials system. In third spot was Justin Snow G4TSH, just 20 points behind Peter. Justin travelled up to Suffolk for the night to use Bob G4BAH’s super station.

    In Section B (Overseas), the winner is Paul O’Kane EI5DI.  Paul had a huge 198 point lead over second placed Rolfe Salme SM5MX. In third position was Bart Bzymek SQ1K.

    It was interesting to note that there were some easy points lost by many of the leading stations. A lot of these were due to simple logging errors (wrong districts or incorrect well-known callsigns logged) which could have been easily rectified. Even well respected contesters fell foul on this front. Believe me, it pays to check your log before submission.

    Thanks to all who took part, and I look forward to seeing you all (and subsequently receiving your accurate logs) in the 1st topband contest of 2008.

    Graham Bubloz G4FNL

    *= Error-free log
    check logs - ON5JD, UA9MQR

    SOAPBOX

    G0MTN 
    Struggled to hear some UK stations with my antenna system. Glad to work some 'relative' DX. After a couple of hours I drifted back to 80m for the LZ contest, but condx were poor. Then followed a final play on 160 with slowing rates I opted for bed instead of a final few QSOs!

    G3GLL 
    SD and Winkey worked fine. Slow after the first hour and a half so gave up about 23:00

    G3HEJ 
    Came on late, but lots of stations, inc USA were worked. Admit SD was a joy to use !

    G3HKO 
    (QRP) Seemed hard going with 5w. Back to endfed next year. Many thanks to all especially the OP who gave me big signal reports - was he kidding??!

    G3JRM (Op. G4RLS)
    Some noisy condx which sounded like local line noise. It cleared riefly then returned with a vengeance. I also made the error of not checking the band on super duper (set to 20m) until halfway through- hence 3 dupes made by one dope. Ah well!!

    G3KLH 
    Unable to read many stations due to high noise level

    G3LDI 
    Coping with an S-8 noise level from local 32kV lines on this band is soul-destroying, causing me to ask for repeats and also missing quit a number of possibles! As for working USA stations, forget it! Plus I started out without importing the RSGB section list, so wasted 15 minutes or so trying to do that! It was very slow so could have finished at midnight.

    G3LET 
    Rather noisy, but quite a lot of DX signals still audible, a gratifying proportion of which gave me No 001!  I'd spent Saturday putting out 20 x 120ft ground wires to the NW, which seem to have made quite an improvement on Tx and Rx. All hand logged and keyed. A couple of Caribbean stations seemed to think CQWW had started early and gave what I'm sure was their CQ Zone number.  Several OEs gave area codes but I didn't include these in the submitted log for fear of causing the patient adjudicator confusion!

    G3LIK 
    Had very high noise level all evening, S7. Good signals from GM land

    G3PDH 
    Nice little contest but 3 hrs is enough until midnight - too slow thereafter

    G3RSD 
    Used SD - worked perfectly. I Had strong hash noise which stopped precisely at 2300z

    G3SJJ 
    UK and EU activity seemed lower this year, plus some bad static crashes. Antenna height of 57ft just isn't competitive for longer haul stuff.

    G3UFY 
    I tried a very bent dipole, centre at abt 35ft, in place of usual vertical loop in hopes of reducing local noise. Better, but still over S9 all the time, so mostly S & P.

    G3UJE   
    Only managed to get started at 2245 due to another social engagement. Apologies if the earlier embibing affected the readability of my CW! Huge QRN/rain static at S9+ here in the northwest which made copy of G's difficult and DX impossible.  Altogether not a good contest for me!

    G3VYI 
    Lots of activity but no DX worked here some QRN, some new calls good to hear. SD perfect and worked EI5DI !!

    G3WRR 
    I haven't done a 160m contest for years. Not a serious entry - but did enjoy it. Not helped by one of the cats taking a stroll along the keyboard at a critical moment!

    G3XGC 
    Very enjoyable despite fairly poor conditions I enjoyed using SD in this contest

    G3YMC 
    (QRP) Just a little entry, I had not intended to do this contest but wanted to check out my vertical ready for CQWW so just a few calls.

    G3ZGC/A 
    Operating from G3LLK's QTH. Thanks Gus for letting me use your FB antenna system. I signed /A as its the licence recommendation. I got a lot of stick locally about that! Good contest. Sorry I QRMed G4RCG at one point!

    G4BUW  
    Good conditions into E and S Europe.  This is the first contest entry I have personally submitted in over 20 years.  Can't wait 'til the next one!

    G4DDL
    Very QRN at the end but better than usual for me. A couple of mistakes and 2 dupes from stations that insisted I had not worked them!!!

    G4EBK
    Started well S&P worked all the loud ones then down hill after that. Calling does not produce many results with inv vee bent dipole at 30ft ctr. Only six Q's in the last hour.

    G4FAL
    It was all looking good until my balun cooked at the first hour mark. Thankfully I managed to lash something up to struggle on with.

    G4FNL
    I used the local University site. Rig was an FT1000MP + TL922 Amp and a choice of antennae: a 265ft Dipole @ 60ft or Inv L @ 70ft, plus Beverage to the NW for RX. I used SD for logging – and got a surprise when I worked Paul EI5DI and discovered that there’s an extra comment that pops up in SD when you work him!

    G4HSO  
    My first CW contest for some time.  This, together with a new temporary dipole and new WinTest logging created a learning curve. However, a very  enjoyable contest and I hope to be back for both events next year.

    G4RCG  
    Started great worked nearly 100 in the 1st hour, then it started raining which brought with lots of static which made life miserable. I used N1MM for the 1st time in this test which made things interesting, found it ok but for me SD would have been better.

    G4TSH     
    Thanks to Bob G4BAH for use of station.Poor condx to DX and lots of static in EU. Fewer people on than last time.

    GM0GAV  
    Went to the pub to watch the Scotland match before - a few busted calls no doubt!

    GM3JKS  
    Could only afford time to do about 1 hour. SD worked flawlessly

    GM3YEH  
    Good activity early in the contest, but very slow later.

    GM4AFF  
    Sorry, but sadly I only had a little while available for this contest

    GM4BRN (Op GM3ZBE) 
    First entry in this contest, good fun rather slow in the last 90 mins.

    GM4FAM 
    First 160m contest for years - very enjoyable!

    GW3SQX     
    Can't compete with the big guns!

    K1ESE 
    First try with the big quad and a contest.  Didn't know what to expect.  Made first QSO an hour before sunset.  Thanks to all that pulled my signal out of the noise.

    M0AAA (Op G0VQR)
    Very hard going. The antenna is not good enough. I cannot get the height I need - 35 feet at the centre to about 25 at the ends, firing
    north/south.

    ON3AD     
    These are my first steps in a 160 meter Contest

    OZ7BQ  
    Running K2 and an 8 meters high toploaded vertical in a very small garden. Please note this logger did not accept PH!!

    PA0FAW 
    Could not take part all the time, condx were poor and as far as I can judge not much activity, but my indoor longwire is of course not very good.
     
    S57DX  
    Terrible QRN here

    S59T   
    Just to give out some points

    VE3CUI 
    The ratio of U.K. stations CALLED to those that were actually WORKED was about 3 to 1 this year --- again! (Sigh). There were some VERY big signals emanating from "G"-land this year...alas & a lack their ears did not equal the signals they were sending out...!