An example of a prepared WRTC site
Welcome to week two hundred and forty nine of NARC’s contest news
Don’t forget to look out for those WRTC stations in the IARU contest this weekend!
A rather late submission this week after a hot tiring day setting up WRTC and the 50MHz UKAC so being written Friday am.
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
The results of the 70MHz UKAC of 18th June were released on 3rd July. In the Open section Stewart G4AFF led our charge coming 4th. In the Restricted section G4LPP was 4th, Roger EI8KN was 8th and Mike G4DYC was 55th. In the Low Power section Graham G3SGC was 15th. We came 4th this time and are running 4th overall in this series. Link here to results
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 relevent HF results this week.
Next CC in the series is SSB on Wednesday 15th July.
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
Over the weekend of 3rd/4th July the VHF Field Day and VHF Fixed station contests ran. NARC had no Field Day entry although the local Bittern DX group did enter this year, on claimed score it looks like they may win the 144MHz section. In the Fixed station contest I entered on 4 Bands although going to Barford on Sunday morning did rather limit the airtime. The only other club members I spotted entering were Roger EI8KN and Terry G0BIX. Link here to VHF NFD claimed scores and link here to VHF fixed station contest claimed scores.
On Tuesday 7th July the 144MHz UKAC ran. For those in the West of the UK there was some excellent Tropo to Madeira EA8 and countries between. Over this side less so! NARC fielded a decent number of entries with G4LPP, Roger EI8KN, Neil G4HUN/P, Mike G4KQY, Mike G4DYC and Graham G3SGC on the air. Best DX here was to Torleif SM7EYW at 811Km. Link here to claimed scores
On Wednesday 8th July the 432MHz FT8 AC ran (2h and 4h sections). NARC members spotted in this one were Roger EI8KN and Terry G0BIX. Link here to claimed scores (2h)
On Thursday 9th July the 50MHz UKAC ran. Conditions were fairly poor and initially on 100W I only managed a few locals so after an unproductive half hour I changed sections and upped the power to 500W. This produced good results! There were very few contacts of a DX nature by anyone. Entries from NARC were from Myself, Roger G3LDI, Roger EI8KN, John G4PFZ, Mike G4DYC and Mike G4KQY. Link here to claimed scores
On HF
Over the weekend of the 4th/5th July the Marconi memorial CW contest ran. I’ve had this brief report from Bob 2E0OBO:-
Hi Phil,
Managed my token 50 qso’s on Marconi Memorial Contest on Sat 4th. Conditions not so good but had some fun.
Catch you on cwt Wed.
73
Bob 2E0OBO
On Monday 6th July the 80m CC CW ran. Conditions were fairly reasonable although activity seemed slightly down. NARC managed a good turnout with 14 logs entered. Highest number of contacts claimed was 130 by Jon G4IVV. Peter M0RYB started late after a heavy day building WRTC stations. Here is his report:-
After 3 days erecting stations for WRTC in the heat, I did not think I would be fit for the CW CC on Monday. But having made the mistake of turning the radio on at 21:00, the next 30 minutes were a blast. On a run frequency I had to call CQ only 3 times, and the pike-ups were huge. If you want pile-up practice, start late. Over 50 qsos in that time
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
% Tue 14th Jul. 1900-2130 432MHz UKAC
% Thu 16th Jul. 1900-2130 70MHz UKAC
% Sat 18th Jul. 70MHz Trophy contest (part of RSGB VHF Championship) – link here to rules
% Sat 18th Jul. 1400 for 24h IARU Region 1 70MHz contest – link here to rules
% Sat 18th June 1400 for 24h CQ Worldwide VHF Digital Contest 6m & 2m – link here to rules
% Tue 21st Jul. 1900-2130 1.3GHz UKAC
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.
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 11th Jul. 1200 for 24h GR2HQ Challenge – link here to rules
% Sat 11th Jul. 1200 for 24h IARU HF World Championship – link here to rules
% Sat 11th Jul. 1200 for 36h SKCC Weekend Sprintathon CW – link here to rules
% Sun 12th Jul. 2000-2300 QRP ARCI Summer Homebrew Sprint CW – link here to rules
% Wed 15th Jul. 1900-2030 80m CC SSB
% Sat 18th Jul. 0000 to Sun 19th Jul. 2359 LABRE (Brazil) DX contest CW & SSB – link here to rules
% Sun 19th Jul. 0900-1600 International Low Power contest (rsgb HF championship) link here to rules
% Thu 23rd Jul. 1900-2030 80m CC DATA
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 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 PAGE73 until next week,
Phil G4LPP