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Welcome to week two hundred and twenty of NARC’s contest news
Results:-
On VHF
The results of the 1.3GHz UKAC of 18th November came out on 7th December. Our team of 4 managed 5th place in this one. We remain 6th in the series. Once again, we could do with more operators on these bands. If you have 1.3GHz or higher please consider giving it a go! Entries in this one were from myself, Stewart, G4AFF and the Mattishall contingent, Jim G3YLA and Mike G4DYC who only managed to work each other but gained useful points for our team effort! Only one more in this series this year. Link to results here
In the overall UKAC we are still running 6th in section out of 69 clubs so far. Of note, we are only 1 point below 5th place Gower/GwyrCC. Link to this here.
On HF
No new results of note of which I am aware this week, however the raw scores for the CQ WW CW contest of the last weekend in November have been published. Several NARC members took part including a low power Multi Two entry by the Loxlot team (M0RYB). Link to these here
In the AFS Superleague championships so far NARC are now up into 4th place out of 28 clubs. Link to this here
This year’s HF championship results to date are at this link here
If people are entering other contests of whose results I am obviously unaware please e-mail me to let me know the outcome and I’ll mention it here.
Contests:-
OnVHF
On Sunday 7th December the 144MHz AFS contest ran – this, as its name suggests, is part of the AFS series of HF and VHF contests. NARC managed 6 logs for this one which is 6 times better than last year when only David M9BLX entered! This year logs were received from Myself, G4AFF, M5BFL, M9BLX, G8VPE and G4DYC. Thanks to all who entered. This means we have 1 full team and one half team in this event. Link to claimed scores here
On Tuesday 9th December the 432MHz UKAC ran. Eight NARC members were active including, from his new QTH, Graham G3SGC using a 7 element QUAD at 4 ft AGL, hand rotated and 20 Watts but making 14 QSOs which was a valiant effort! Conditions at the start were fairly good East West but poor North South. Top scorer looks to be Stewart G4AFF. Link to Claimed Scores here
On Wednesday 10th December the 70cmm FT8 AC (2h and 4h sections) ran. A club member noted to have entered was Roger, EI8KN in the 2h section. Link here to claimed scores.
On Thursday 11th December the 50MHz UKAC ran. This was the last 6m UKAC of the year and we had a fairly good turnout with 8 stations active. G4DYC, G3YLA, G3LDI, M5BFL, G8VPE, M0YRU, G4AFF and G4KQY. Conditions were horrible although Steve, M5BFL managed to pull an Italian station out of the noise on SSB. There was a lot of MS activity and we suspect that was the mode for his QSO. Link here to claimed scores
On HF
I am not aware of any HF contests with NARC interest this past week.
Please let me know if you were on in any other VHF or HF contests and I’ll put a summary in next week’s news.
Upcoming contests in the next 2 weeks (all times in UTC):-
On VHF / UHF / SHF
Before each of the 2m and 70cm UKACs there is an FM leg starting 1 hour before for 55 minutes. I hear almost no activity in this from here but others may have more luck! Rules etc on RSGBCC site.
% Tue 16th Dec. 2000-2230 1.3GHz UKAC
% Thu 18th Dec. 2000-2230 70MHz UKAC (The last contest in this year’s UKAC series)
After this, look out for the 4 VHF Christmas contests. I will list them in next week’s news.
Also of interest for some on the vhf / uhf bands are the EU FT8 activity tests – see the following link for more information. These are on the first (144 MHz), second (432MHz) and third (1.3GHz) Wednesdays of each month. 1700-2000 Hrs EU FT8 series website
On HF
% Sat 13th Dec. 0000for 48h ARRL 10 meter contest. CW and Phone. Link to rules here
% Sat 13th Dec. 0000 to Sun 14th Dec. 2359 PODXS 070 club Triple Play Low Band Sprint PSK31 160, 80 and 40m – link to rules here
% Sat 13th Dec. 0600 to Sun 14th Dec. 1800h TRC Digital contest RTTY – link to rules here
% Sat 13th Dec. 1200 for 36h. SKCC Weekend Sprintathon CW – link to rules here
% Sat 13th Dec. 1300 to Sun 14th Dec. 1359 ARI 40/80 contest (Italy) – link to rules here
% Mon 15th Dec. 2000-2200 RSGB FT4 contest
% Sat 20th Dec. 0000-2359 Feld Hell Sprint – link to rules here
% Sat 20th Dec. 0000-2400 OK DX RTTY contest – link to rules here
% Sat 20th Dec. 0000-2359 RAC (Canada) Winter Contest, CW and Phone – link to rules here
% Sat 20th Dec. 1400 for 24h Croatian DX contest CW and SSB – link here to rules
% Sun 21st Dec. 2300 for 2h Run for the Bacon QRP Contest – link to rules here
See Link to WA7BNM for other contests not mentioned above. There are several to choose from!
Wednesdays throughout the year, CW OPS 1 hour mini tests 13:00, 19:00, Thurs 03:00 and 07:00, exchange Name and G if not a member or CW OPS number if you are a member.
See CWOPS website for more details.
Also on Fridays 2000 to 2100 and Mondays 0000 to 0100 each week CW OPS runs the K1USN slow speed CW contests. Any speed up to 20wpm is acceptable. For rules see :- CW OPs SST page these contests are open to anyone.
All RSGB contest rules and further details plus log submission at RSGB contest site
A link to John 2E0TWQ’s site’s Narc contest history page – 2E0TWQ’s NARC contest results page
Contesting can be great fun but I know there’s a reluctance to step into unknown waters. It’s a great way of improving many aspects of our hobby including one’s own performance and the quality of your station. If you have any interest whatsoever please call in to the contest net on Friday evening at 9pm on 145.250MHz FM or speak to any of the regular contesters on 450. Or indeed email me!
Submissions or comments for this news to thedoctorphil@gmail.com.
I particularly need any contest related photographs, you may be prepared to share, to head the news each week.
73 until next week,
Phil G4LPP