Radio Society of Great Britain. Official HF Contest Results
Results - 1st 1.8MHz Contest 2010
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1st 1.8 MHz Contest 2010 The 2010 1st 1.8Mhz contest attracted 111 entrants, almost a 50/50 split between overseas and UK participants. Conditions were favourable though less profitable for northern UK stations. GW3YDX managed to work XU7ACY - the only UK station to do so. GU4YOX was the most frequent UK station appearing in US logs. On the whole though DX was lacking for this event. This event coincided with the PACC 160M contest which increased the number of PA participants. This did lead to some confusion since PA stations only sent their district codes and no serial numbers! Entrants are reminded that the rules for RSGB contests is to log exactly what you receive. If no serial is sent then enter either a hyphen or '000' and leave a note in the Soapbox comments. The contest adjudicator is not the same as the log submission robot so is able to make reasoned decisions. Once again, the majority of logs were received by the RSGB HF Contest Committee Robot entry system, greatly simplifying the adjudication process and allowing a faster turn around of results. An interesting turn of results with GW3YDX taking top place in the UK section. Having dominated this series of 160m contests for a few years GM3POI suffered poor conditions and slipped to 4th place. The top four scores were very close and the 2nd 1.8Mhz contest has the potential for being an exciting event. Ron Stone wins the Somerset Trophy for the leading UK score. In Section B (Overseas), the winner is F/G4BJM closely followed by EI5DI. Thanks to all who took part, and I look forward to seeing you for the 2nd RSGB 1.8Mhz contest on 20th November 2010. Mark G4MEM Check logs are gratefully acknowledged from G3VQO, DF6WE, PA0RBA |
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SOAPBOX:
DF3OLA very nice short contest on 160m. rig: K3, 80Wout & 43m endfed wire
DK3UZ
RX Siemens E311b TX Johnson Viking Ranger - 5W ANT 80m guywire pyramid
DK8NI
IC 746 100 W short inv.-Vee-dipole max. height 15 m. it was fun, mni tnx for the contest!
DL6MTA
Ten-Tec Omni VI 120m Long Wire
DL8QS
good activity ..thanks fer contest!
EI5DI
SD WinKey Pro3
EU1DZ
Good Contest!
F/G4BJM
Good fun. Better than last year but still slow, only one valid QSO in the last hour. Rig TS870, 500W, inverted Vee.
G3GLL
Band conditions quite good. Inter G activity seemed rather low ! Gave up early !
G3GMM
TS520S + loaded doublet
G3LDI
Noise level only S-8 this time so not too bad. Only one USA station workable
G3LET
Rather poor and noisy conditions. N America in particular were weaker than usual. One only JA copied one letter at a time. Thanks to the adjudicators and to all who called.
G3LIK
Some reasonable conditions for inter G working. Nice to hear a lot of familiar calls on the band. Managed a few from Europe but no real DX
G3OLB
Activity from G-Land not as high as expected.
G3PDH
Its a good job all those Eu continental and Russian stations were on otherwise it would have all been over by 10pm!
G3PSM
First time in this contest for a number of years and the number of G stations seem to be down. 100W to a long wire antenna running NE/SW which from this location heads right out into the Atlantic.
G3RFH
Had antenna matching problems just after the start and had to reduce power to about 80watts. Conditions seemed pretty good but not many G stations about. Very slow for the last hour. Think most people went to bed at midnight!!
G3RSD
Due to poor antenna only came on to give away points
G3TBK
Ft1000mp 400 watts to inverted"l" at 70 feet. high qrn levels in last hour when new stations hard to find. Most stations worked were outside uk.
G3UFY
RIG - FT1000MP + Ranger 811. ANTENNAS - Loop
G3VYI
Good condx at start lack of G's later. Lots of PA's and weak Eu with my antenna. Netting and tuning hard work !! 807 driving QY4-400 linear/RA17 Rx !!
G3ZGC/A
Rig IC775DSP 200w to dipole up 50 ft at G3LLK QTH. Conditions seemed quite good. A pleasure to operate from a noise free environment unlike home where I would have got about 40 QSOs only.
G3ZRJ
Glad to give out some points
G4AFS
Great fun some very loud signals and high QRM for the first half and gradually got quieter and more serene as time went on.
G4ASR
Some stns missing the first dot/dash of their exchange. Pleased to work J38XX first call.
G4CKH
Enjoyable couple of hours on the key.
G4DBW
Elecraft K3 10 watts output
G4EBK
Usual perfomance again from my 100w and inv vee dipole bent to fit garden. Centre at 30Ft and a average height of 18 Ft. No dx worked but pleased to get 13 countries in the log.
G4FAL
Logging software was changing N into 9 so I had to log all the PA stations as serial 000 with the area code in the district field.
G4FNL
Condx seemed poor. No JAs worked and only a few Ws. NP4A was an outstanding signal. Thanks to everyone for the QSOs
G4HHJ
FT847 + Loaded inverted-L for 3.5MHz at 9m agl. My first time in this contest - trying new ant and CW practice. I only got about 1 hr of operating in total.
G4LDL
Ft1000mp 100w + inverted l.
G4PIQ
K2/100 + PA 400W Inv-V top @ 11m ends at head height. Low antenna was lousy for DX with NP4A only QSO outside of Europe but good
fun.
G4RCG
Very noisy to start with but still managed 100 in 1st hour 50 in the 2nd hour still think that this test could be shortened to 3 hrs. Sd worked great as normal
G4RYV/P
Temporary Location City of Leicester. TX Power output 4 Watts into Inverted L Very High Local noise level up to S8
G7DDN
First time in this contest so thanks to all who were patient and QRS-ed.
GI4DOH
Elecraft K3 90 Watts 25m Long Wire
GM3POI
Poor Condx this one.
GM4UBJ
Nice to hear so many on the band who can now hear me now that Ive got an Inverted L/ shunt fed tower working. Sd worked fine as usual see you next time
GM4ZUK
Have not participated in this contest for a while. Enjoyed it. Running got very slow last hour.
GU4YOX
Conditions weren't great but thanks to all the stations that contacted me. 73 Bob GU4YOX
HA1FF
FT 1000MP sloper 160m
LY2J
Rig: ft990; antenna:
M0CEF
As always attempting to work some new postcode areas. QRM from QRO stations made even those close by difficult to work.
Rig 5 W. Ant 22 m wire. Straight key.
M0NQN
Limited to just over half an hour - a mini sprint!
MU0FAL
Found UK activity lowcould hear GU4YOX rather well
OK1KZ
Rig-TRX TS430S 80W. Ant Dipole G5RV
OK1RP
Rather noisy band this evening. I missed GM3UA and few others. Elecraft K3/100W out. Base loaded half sloper apex 12m.
I participated again in this my lovely contest after 20 years when I used OL1BVR.
OK1TC
I enjoyed my 2 hours activity in the contest.
OK2BDR
Rig: ft857; antenna: lw 40m
OK2BFN
IC746 100W Inv. L ant.
OK2BMU
This contest is either too long to work 42 QSO's in 4 hours or too small amount of GB stations is active. Thanks to all for QSO but I am not sure taking a part in the next time.
OK2BTT
Trx icom 737a. aerial lw 83 m 15m up the ground. fine contest
PA0MIR
Always pleasant to enter this contest, at the same time working for the PACC. Would be fine if the organizer accepted just the 2-letter code from PACC; I now sent both serial and NH province code in each exchange. For overseas the amount of statio
ns to be worked is unfortunately quite limited so the 4 hour format might be shortened to the 80 m club format of 90 minutes
RA4HBS
73!
RN2FQ
Tks for nice contest
RV3MR
IC-718 dipole
RW3AI
Icom 706 Ant LW 120 m
RX3DFL
Sloper antenna. G activity is very low.
RZ6AW
Tnx for contest! 73!
S59EIJ
Just for fun...
S59T
Just give out some points.
VE3CUI
The agony & the ecstacy: hearing all of the very FB sigs from G-land hours ahead of my local sunset & being unable to work them because of the vaguaries of 160-meter propagation! I worked 10 stations in total but you should really see "...The ones that got away"! Hi
YO2CJX
RIG(s): TS 140s; ANTENNA(s): DIPOLE
YO4SI
Big noise in my location. 73s for all RSGB members !
YO5AJR
The propagation in 160m like a young lady....Tnx QSO for all stations in RSGB 160m contest 73 de yo5ajr
YO5QBP
FT1000MP 5 Watts LW antenna