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    Radio Society of Great Britain. Official HF Contest Results

    Results - SSB Field Day 2009

    Open Section qs ms qs ms qs ms qs ms qs ms  
    Pos Group Call
    3.5
    7
    14
    21
    28
    		 QSOs Points Mults
    Final Score
    1 Cray Valley RS G3RCV/P 274 25 346 39 507 60 44 28 17 10 1188 4385 162 710370
    2 East Notts CG G3TBK/P 366 29 430 37 465 54 40 22 12 6 1313 4696 148 695008
    3 DoubleX-Ray Firm M0XXT/P 304 28 379 40 243 48 30 12 8 5 964 3714 133 493962
    4 Buchan CG MM0AOQ/P 212 19 438 30 436 47 21 14 1 1 1108 3995 111 443445
    5 Oxford & DARS G8PX/P 260 22 276 39 255 46 44 17 2 2 837 3216 126 405216
    6 Bittern DX Group G6IPU/P 402 25 454 38 96 25 21 11 6 2 979 3564 101 359964
    7 Norfolk ARC G8QR/P 304 22 299 32 216 44 26 12 0 0 845 3131 110 344410
    8 Sheffield ARC G2AS/P 302 24 341 27 174 42 25 12 1 1 843 3230 106 342380
    9 Hadley Wood CG M0HWC/P 253 21 223 26 190 41 23 16 11 3 700 2776 107 297032
    10 Wisbech AR & EC M5ARC/P 325 23 262 31 149 33 18 10 2 2 756 2883 99 285417
    11 Lincoln SWC G5FZ/P 317 23 285 30 204 34 0 0 0 0 806 2922 87 254214
    12 Hornsea ARC G5GX/P 212 16 289 27 125 32 22 16 3 2 651 2583 93 240219
    13 Stockport RS G3LX/P 193 16 271 29 221 29 23 11 2 2 710 2754 87 239598
    14 Worcester RAA M0ZOO/P 63 7 133 19 343 50 26 18 11 4 576 2152 98 210896
    15 Blackwood & DARS GW6GW/P 153 13 226 24 137 35 19 13 4 4 539 2200 89 195800
    16 Northampton RC G3GWB/P 215 20 160 22 71 28 24 15 0 0 470 2018 85 171530
    17 South Derby & Ashby Wolds  G0SRC/P 137 15 161 22 103 29 15 7 0 0 416 1631 73 119063
    18 Macclesfield & DRS G4MWS/P 141 13 195 22 49 22 12 8 5 1 402 1718 66 113388
    19 Clifton ARS G3GHN/P 167 19 69 17 61 29 13 9 0 0 310 1249 74 92426
    20 Havering & DARC G4HRC/P 256 15 183 23 19 10 2 2 1 1 461 1732 51 88332
    21 Darenth Valley RS G0KDV/P 34 9 9 7 327 38 10 7 0 0 380 1307 61 79727
    22 York RC G4YRC/P 14 4 17 6 10 9 0 0 0 0 41 186 19 3534
    Restricted Section
    Pos Group Call Q M Q M Q M Q M Q M QSOs Pts Mult Total
    1Bristol CGG6YB/P2432333735308463418769293571128457088
    2Blaenau Dwr [single op]MW1LCR/P21425350352514348172678893334127423418
    3Granta CGM0CAM/P2332220934102353515835872476109269884
    4 [single op]M0UTD/P155121832420139371552581225692207552
    5Reading & DARCG3ULT/P3262122328522116842621256980205520
    6Worthing & District ARCG3WOR/P25722162255724211111498209683173968
    7RAFARSG8FC/P1371316331432111722356161074119140
    8Scarborough ARSG4BP/P266181652036192200469194159114519
    9Lowestoft District & Pye ARCG3JRM/P2921711720422012852468170067113900
    10Kilmarnock & Loudoun ARCMM0KLR/P73103302643213300449184160110460
    11Three As CGGI0AAA/P9691651510130000036215385483052
    12Chesham & DARSG3MDG/P20118163153216000039616194979331
    13Worthing Radio Events GroupM0REG/P2031795173420001133313845576120
    14West Kent ARSG1WKS/P1651564146523333230012935773701
    15Basingstoke ARCG8JYN/P1121262204620000022010145252728
    16 [single op]G4DPF/P108123110693000002089385248776
    17Echelford ARSG3UES/P531010616341711111958294537305
    18Stourbridge & DARSG6OI/P11111499261586001948984136818
    19Aberdeen ARSGM3BSQ/P75111121313911212038923531220
    20Dragon ARCGW4TTA/P839921617800001929063329898
    21Poldhu ARSG3MPD/P36713013411700002078043729748
    22Dudley & DARSM0RSD/P1101179126400001958672723409
    23Kidderminster & DARSG6KRC/P2787210261300001255743117794
    24Reading & DARC BG3AKF/P235431216121111843913112121
    25Bolton Wireless ClubG0BWC/P296142178000060258164128

    Checklogs:

    G3TXF G3VAO G3VQO G6CSY G7RTI GA4GRC/P M0RYB M5ALG MA0BQI/P MA0DXH MU0GSY 9A2QF AB2TC/VE3 DK1ROB EB2DJB/P HA7PL HA8ZE HG8C K3ZO SO9G TA1HZ YO7DEK


    There was a good turnout this year for SSB Field Day with 47 stations entering. A total of 220 operators took part from the UK, no doubt with many others that helped with putting the stations together, catering, etc.  Weather conditions were reported to be reasonably good this year, which compensates a little for the poor band conditions.

    Both sections of the contest were very closely contested at the top.  In the end the winners and runners-up were the same as last year. It was especially close in the Open Section where Cray Valley RS, G3RCV/P, scraped into first place ahead of East Notts CG, G3TBK/P.  This was due to a higher Multiplier total and slightly better log accuracy, as their overall QSO total was lower. In the Restricted Section Bristol CG, G6YB/P, were just ahead of Adrian Rees, MW1LCR/P who ran as a Single-op station.

    In addition to the UK logs, a total of 380 logs were available from other IARU Region 1 countries who were participating in their own Field Day events.  This allowed approx 60% of QSOs to be cross-checked.

    Alan Hydes, G3XSV



    SOAPBOX:

    G0BWC/P
    Operating Club Station at Smithills Hall Museum from at tent in a rather muddy field!

    G0KDV/P
    Shame it clashed with ALL ASIA contest.

    G1WKS/P
    The first NDF for the club in many years. Great fun had by all on the team. We will be back next year bigger and better.

    G2AS/P
    Scores down this year maybe due to the very poor conditions on 15 and 10m.  However it was a most enjoyable weekend especially as we had 19 helpers to set up and 14 to take down! The lack of rain (for a change) was also a help! Gear and 80m inverted V dipoles at 80ft. As usual we tried to let as many people as possible have a go and so sacrificed the scoring rate at times but it was a very
    sociable event neverthless.We also ran the 144MHz Trophy Contest in parallel the same location to give everyone something to do!

    G3GWB/P
    Problems with generator and tribander meant we kicked off 2 hours late! Thanks to Richard G6TVB Graham M0GCR Ian G1BHR and Keith G7HLP for their valuable assistance over the weekend.

    G3JRM/P
    Very enjoyable weekend for all concerned operators and helpers alike. Combined the contesting with our annual club BBQ. There was so much food left over from Sat'day that we extended the BBQ to the sunday lunchtime. HF band conditions seemed poor but the WX was good.

    G3MDG/P
    IC-756PRO + Doublet @ 10.5M AGL

    G3MPD/P
    The event was run six 105A/H batteries in parallell which powered the rig, laptop and night time lighting The Radioworks windom 160 was at a hight of 10 meters in an east / west direction. The only problems with SD was how to edit entries so a button to a pop up window with minimal commands would help

    G3RCV/P
    Not able to pile on the volume of QSOs this time but at least we we were prepared and had a wireless internet connection so that we could pick up cluster spots. Once again very little separates our score from G3TBK/P. Many thanks to the club members who helped out - 2E0BUU M6MER M0KAZ G8ITB M0KSJ M0CRY G4HSU G4WNF 2E0LOAG G4DFI G4JED

    G3TBK/P
    Good stateside runs on 20 & 40. Very slow in small hours after 40m closed. Bobtail gave good results into N America. FT1000MP HL-1K AMP. 400 WATTS. 80M DIPOLE AND 40M DIPOLE @ 70 FEET
    40M DIPOLE @ 33 FEET 40M BOBTAIL TH7 @ 60 FEET

    G3UES/P
    If it could go wrong it did. ATU decided it did not want to work. £ ATU's later we were on the air. We did not have the couplers for the poles, so a tree was used. Aeriel only up at about 25 foot. Still I did have fun in the end

    G3ULT/P
    Great weather for contesting. Not to cold and no rain. A good turn out from the members helping to set up and take down the stations. See you next year.

    G3WOR/P
    Enjoyable Contest but activity seemed a little lower to us. Hard going on 15m & 10m in the Restricted section. We joined forces with a neighbouring club and ended up with 11 Ops!  We used this contest as a base to build up our experience. Thanks to all for the QSOs

    G4BP/P
    Conditions were difficult and noisy however our new contesters Intermediate licence holders enjoyed the experience and hopefully will be back next year which was one of the objects of the contest for this club

    G4DPF/P
    shame same date as all asia contest used ei5sd logger great !!

    G4HRC/P
    lots of activity and fine weather

    G4MWS/P
    TS570D FT857 100W
    Tri-band Beam G5RV Skyloop Crushcraft R6 All equipment worked! Weather - near perfect HF was hard work with All Asia contest

    G4YRC/P
    QTH on the edge of Dalby Forest not ideal but OK Decided to take part 48h before the event Highlight was the lunch cooked over an open fire Downloaded SD night before and it worked first time out

    G5FZ/P
    Contest Result dedicated to our friend Colin G3MUL ( silent key ) Radio FT1000 PA  Linear Amp UK Aerials
    Triband beam 10,15,20 mtrs plus dipoles

    G5GX/P
    Wet setting up on Friday - Condx poor to start the contest with long skip. It got much better on Sunday. with 10/15m opening nicely. WX was nice in East Yorkshire on Saturday & Sunday. SD as always performed well.

    G6IPU/P
    New site high good take off every thing seemed to go to plan. One or two ops did
    not make it due to families, but it's the best we've ever done. See you all next
    year

    G6KRC/P
    Inadvertantly worked 7 stations on top band, unable to correct this in the log, sorry. Enjoyable weekend, fine weather, but we could have done with more operators.

    G6OI/P
    Do not do the night shift after giving blood the week before

    G6YB/P
    This must have been the worst HF conditions of all time.  At least the weather was kind to us.

    G8JYN/P
    In memory of Alan Stables G8FMH who passed away a couple of weeks ago a gentleman and a gentle man much admired within the club and a great loss.  Poor conditions at start improved slightly 10M empty. So frustrating that there are so many other stations to work but they only want to work Asia.  Lovely WX good company good fun hard work!

    G8QR/P
    A very enjoyable 24 hours, used contest to introduce new operators to contesting. They proved that it is not necessary to be a die hard contester to turn out good results, many thanks to 2E0GOL M6BWA 2E0DRT 2E0YFO M6JZU M0PUD and M0HUG for joining our team. May they stay with us for the CC's next year. Well done to you all.

    GI0AAA/P
    It was a one-man part-time effort operating from a hire car on Rathlin Island. 100W from an Icom 706 in the glovebox and a dipole on an 8m pole.  

    GM3BSQ/P
    The weather as always at this location is a major consideration. This year after a wet setup period was kind to us with virtullay no wind sunshine through the day and moonlit by night.

    GW4TTA/P
    Here I sit broken hearted,Did my best but never really got started!!!!

    GW6GW/P
    Great time nice to see the club back into contesting

    M0CAM/P
    This year we had a better antenna suffice to say that this is an 80ft rotatable monster doublet with homebrew remote balanced tuner. We also refined the 'big-knob/little-knob' operation on the FT2000 so that the spotter could make Q's instead of just passing them to the run op. This makes the spotter's job much more inclusive and interesting. Creates the odd argument about who gets the transmitter though! We had no DXCluster this year (too much effort).We were very happy to have Phil M0DEG as guest op. Hopefully he enjoyed the
    experience! We set the tower and antenna up on the Friday but actually this went together really quickly and we needn't have taken 1/2-day holiday. Tear-down took 1 hour 10 mins. That's the fastest ever for us. A bit strange to be mowing the lawn at home by 5pm!
    Propagation wasn't brilliant at the start and the going was very slow. Things only really picked up once we started moving LF towards the evening. We were behind the leaders at this point but then started to gain some ground. We're not sure we made up this deficit by the end. We're rather hoping the multiplier score is good! It was a surprise to find 15m open quite early on the Sunday morning and even more of a surprise to find 10m open at 9

    M0HWC/P
    Used new Flex3000 for the first time. Steppir beam 40m vertical and 80m folded dipole. Very slow start but the pace picked up after a couple of hours. All operators enjoyed S&P and the excellent filters of the Flex3000. Not our best effort but an enjoyable contest nonetheless.

    M0REG/P
    SD saved the day as usual!

    M0UTD/P
    very difficult with All Asia Contest but fun

    M0XXT/P
    No failures but hard work again. Need more height, more gain and better something, certainly.. possibly operators! :)

    M0ZOO/P
    First time from a new spot. Great location but awful weekend. 2 op's went home early due to illness and contest manager broke his arm

    M5ARC/P
    Low contest activity by all operators and station problems put us in a very difficult position, didn't go anywhere near as well as it should, anyway was fun to have a play again.

    MM0AOQ/P
    The biggest problem this year was actually getting into the site due to heavy rain. Dissapointed that 15 and 20 not as good as last year but a very enjoyable weekend as always  looking forward to next year.

    MW1LCR/P
    New improved aerial system this year, seems to have worked OK. Still fell asleep for two hours though !