2011 SSB FD
Welcome to week two hundred and forty five of NARC’s contest news
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.
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!
Results:-
On VHF
This week there seem to be no results of VHF contests relevant to NARC. We are still waiting for the results of April and May’s 1.3GHz UKACs. Not sure why Quinn hasn’t got them out yet.
The current VHF championship placings are at this link here
In the overall UKAC we are currently 5th, but a long way behind Wirral in 4th. Interestingly Parallel lines group have a perfect 6000 score so far! Link here
On HF
No new HF RSGB results so far this week however Tracey, 2E0CEY reports two contest results in which she was involved. A 30th out of 271 in the Polski RTTY contest and 7th in England in the CQ WPX SSB contest:-
Hi Phil, two results in this week.
POLSKI RTTY placed 30th out of 271, so happy with that.
CQ WPX SSB 7th England TB Wires catagory.
Tracey
Link to CQWW WPX SSB 2026 results 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:-
On VHF
On Saturday and Sunday 5th and 6th June the UK Six Metre Group Summer ES contest ran. As usual an NARC team with Chris G0DWV and Andy M0NKR ran from Great Ellingham lower field with the callsign G4ANT/P. They found the going tough making 59 QSOs over the weekend. Despite the low numbers it does look like they have probably won by quite a large margin! Link here to claimed scores
On Tuesday 2nd June the 432MHz UKAC ran. Conditions here were reasonable and despite limiting to 100W to be in the Restricted group and some severe feeder issues yet to be sorted best DX was SM7EYW on CW. Entries for NARC were also received from Roger EI8KN, Graham G3SGC and Mike G4DYC. Link here to claimed scores
On Wednesday 3rd June the 432MHz FT8AC (2h and 4h sections) ran. Narc interest was in the form of EI8KN in the 2h section and G0BIX in the 4h section. Link here to 2h claimed scores
On Thursday 4th June the 50MHz UKAC ran. During the afternoon and early evening 6m conditions were superb with SSB to the US and Russia and a band full of OH, SM, SP and Italian contesters. As usual with the UKAC conditions faded fast here just after the contest started so I was only able to catch a few. After that the band was poor with lots of noise and deep QSB. I believe conditions were better to the south and west at least at the start. We should have 6 logs for NARC of which I am aware, M0NKR, EI8KN, G4LPP, G4DYC, G4KQY and G3YLA. Link here to claimed scores
On HF
Over the weekend of 6th and 7th June the big contest was HF CW NFD which NARC enetered as usual from Great Ellingham. Conditions to Europe were good and the NARC team running to a single antenna with 100 Watts made 749 contacts. Peter, M0RYB working with Chris G0TZZ as the Loxlot team from Peter’s /p site managed 657 contacts in the 5 Watt QRP section.
Peter’s claimed results are here:-
Our submitted results:
Band QSOs Points DXCC
1.8 84 564 13
3.5 123 390 14
7 216 613 28
14 159 458 27
21 53 154 19
28 11 29 10
Totals: 646 2208 111
Score: 245088
On Wednesday evening 10th June the 80m CC CW contest ran. Conditions were reasonably good apart from marked storm static and NARC had a good turnout with 18 logs entered. So far a total of 178 logs have been received at RSGBCC. Our station with the highest number of claimed contacts this time was Roger G3LDI with 140 plus the bonus station G6XX. Link here to logs received
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.
Apologies if I have missed any emailed reports, some go to spam and some get lost in the huge quantity of junk mail! I try to be diligent!
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.
% Sat 13th Jun. 1400-1700 2m and 1700-1800 70cm AGCW VHF/UHF CW contest – link here to rules
% Sat 13th Jun. 1400 for 24h REF DDFM 6m contest CW/SSB/FM – link here to rules
% Sat 13th Jun. 1800 to Mon 16th Jun. 0259 ARRL June VHF contest 50MHz and up – link here to rules
% Sun 14th Jun. 0900-1300 2nd 144MHz Backpackers – link here to rules
% Tue 16th Jun. 1900-2130 1.3GHz UKAC
% Thu 18th Jun. 1900-2130 70MHz UKAC
% Sat 20th Jun. 1400 for 24h 50MHz Trophy contest – part of the RSGB VHF Championship – link to rules here
% Sat 20th Jun. 1400 for 24h IARU Region 1 50 MHz contest CW and SSB – link here to rules
% Tue 23rd Jun. 1830-2130 SHF UKAC
Also of interest for some on the vhf / uhf bands are the EU FT8 activity tests – see the following link 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 Jun. 0000-2359 YB Orari DX contest SSB – link here to rules
% Sat 13th Jun. 1100-1300 Asia-Pacific Sprint SSB – link here to rules
% Sat 13th Jun. 1200 for 36h SKCC Weekend Sprintathon CW – link here to rules
% Sat 13th Jun. 1200 for 24h Portugal Day Contest SSB and CW – link here to rules
% Mon 15th Jun. 1900-2100 RSGB FT4 contest
% Sat 20th Jun. 0000 for 48h All Asian DX Contest CW – link here to rules
% Sat 20th Jun. 0000-2359 Feld Hell Sprint – link here to rules
% Sat 20th Jun. 1200 to Sun 21st Jun. 2359 SKCC QSO party CW – link here to rules
% Sat 20th Jun. 15900 for 24h Stew Perry Top Band contest CW – link here to rules
% Thu 25th Jun. 1900-2030 80m CC SSB
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
Finally possibly a new section as there doesn’t seem to be any other NARC pages dedicated to this; here is a list forwarded by Alan G8OO of the DX activity planned courtesy the ARI DX bulletin:-
till 15/06 5Z4/MM0ZBH: Kenya 1825
till 30/06 LZ370TL: special callsign 1809
till June 3X/YB3GIH: Guinea 1810
till June TL8BNW: Central African Republic 1813
till 11/07 CN2NQV: Morocco 1825
till 20/07 FO/F6BCW: Tikehau (OC-066), French Polynesia 1822
till 31/07 C21TS: Nauru (OC-031) 1813
till 31/07 DA200GVN: special callsign 1821
till 31/07 DM50GFS: special callsign 1821
till 06/08 ZL100C: special callsign 1789
till 30/09 9A10SOTA: special callsign 1795
till 30/09 YR100RC: special callsign 1820
till 10/11 PA50JT: special callsign 1803
till 31/12 9A44FF: special callsign 1808
till 31/12 9A69AA: special callsign 1809
till 31/12 CT100REP: special callsign 1810
till 31/12 DA100LH, DL100LH, DK100LH: special callsigns 1808
till 31/12 DA100TV and DL100TV: special callsigns 1808
till 31/12 DB100FT: special callsign 1807
till 31/12 DL25WIKI: special callsign 1807
till 31/12 DQ30GDXF: special callsign 1811
till 31/12 DR170TESLA: special callsign 1826
till 31/12 EM50AR: special callsign 1811
till 31/12 GB50PUNK: special callsign 1809
till 31/12 LU1DMZ/Z and LU1ZA: South Orkney Islands (AN-008) 1818
till 31/12 LZ75HSC: special callsign 1818
till 31/12 OT26B: special callsign 1821
till 31/12 PG75HSC: special callsign 1824
till 31/12 YT170TESLA: special callsign 1814
till 31/12 ZL100AA: special callsign 1823
till December VK0TBC: Casey Station, Antarctica 1812
till ??/?? 9M2/KM9D: Rebak Island (AS-058), West Malaysia 1817
09/05-10/05 KD7WPJ: Santa Cruz Island (NA-144) 1827
09/05-15/05 HK4/PY8WW: Tutumate Islands (SA-093) 1817
10/05-16/05 VB3COPS: special callsign 1827
10/05-19/05 TF/WE9G: Iceland (EU-021) 1826
12/05-22/05 OX3LX: Aasiaat Island (NA-134), Greenland 1827
12/05-31/07 II0NRG: special callsign 1826
13/05-16/05 YB1RQX/p, YB1RET/p, YC1RIK/p: Singkep Island (OC-107) 1827
13/05-21/05 V4/EI7BR, V4/EI8KN, V49B: St. Kitts (NA-104) 1827
13/05-22/05 A31AA: Tongatapu Island (OC-049), Tonga 1826
14/05-26/05 A35RS: Tongatapu (OC-049), Tonga 1827
15/05-16/05 JI3DST/6 and JA4GXS/6: Danjo Islands (AS-056) 1826
17/05-23/05 VB3EMS: special callsign 1827
18/05-22/05 PA/OR5R: Ameland Island (EU-038) 1827
19/05-08/06 3G0Z: Robinson Crusoe Island (SA-005), Juan Fernandez 1827
21/05-23/05 EJ6KP/p: Arranmore Island (EU-121) 1826
22/05-24/05 9M26ISX: special callsign (West Malaysia) 1827
22/05-29/01 2027 8J70JARE: special callsign 1825
23/05-30/05 ZC4RH: UK Sovereign Base Areas on Cyprus 1827
25/05-29/05 ZD8KX: Ascension Island (AF-003) 1827
25/05-03/06 ZL7IO: Chatham Islands (OC-038) 1825
26/05-06/06 CP7DX: Bolivia 1827
27/05-08/06 PJ4CB: Bonaire (SA-006) 1827
May T31TTT: Central Kiribati 1822
May XR0Z: Alejandro Selkirk (SA-101), Juan Fernandez 1827
May-October HF0PAS: South Shetland Islands (AN-010) 1825
01/06-14/06 VJ2L: Lord Howe Island (OC-004) 1827
01/06-30/06 II4PRCE: special callsign 1809
01/06-30/06 SP1373JA: special callsign 1807
01/07-31/07 II4JAFL: special callsign 1809
01/07-31/07 SP1183JO: special callsign 1807
01/07-31/08 LZ67PP: special callsign 1809
04/07-07/07 RI1PC: Chaichiy Island (EU-160) 1823
12/07-16/07 RI0BW: Vize Island (AS-055) 1823
18/07-21/07 RI0BU: Uyedineniya Island (AS-057) 1823
23/07-26/07 RI0BI: Isachenko Island (AS-050) 1823
01/08-31/08 II4KEMP: special callsign 1809
01/08-31/08 SP1905MFK: special callsign 1807
01/09-15/09 RI1FJL: Heiss Island (EU-019), Franz Josef Land 1812
01/09-30/09 II4PAGE: special callsign 1809
01/09-30/09 SP1373AB: special callsign 1807
01/09-31/10 LZ936BA: special callsign 1809
30/09-11/10 9T0MD: Democratic Republic of the Congo 1825
01/10-31/10 II4NTTI: special callsign 1809
01/10-31/10 SP1550SK: special callsign 1807
29/10-13/11 KH8A: Pago Pago (OC-045), American Samoa 1827
01/11-30/11 II4GCLB: special callsign 1809
01/11-30/11 SP1234KK: special callsign 1807
01/11-31/12 LZ911TD: special callsign 1809
10/11-19/11 C8K: Mozambique 1823
November ZK3: Tokelau (OC-048) 1822
01/12-31/12 II4SLRI: special callsign 1809
01/12-31/12 SP1835JK: special callsign 1807
February 2027 3Y0L: Peter I Island (AN-004) 1823
March 2027 VP0SG: South Georgia Island (AN-007) 1827
425 DX NEWS HOME PAGE: 73 until next week,
Phil G4LPP