An old Norfolk Club contest group – who can you spot?
Welcome to week two hundred and sixty of NARC’s contest news
Submissions or comments for this news to g4lpp.1@gmail.com (note new e-mail address). 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
On 7th October the results of the 1.3GHz UKAC of 15th September were released. NARC’s team managed a third place in this one. We remain 5th overall in this series. Highest scorer for us was Stewart G4AFF followed by G4LPP. G3SGC scored 589 points EI8KN 200 and G3YLA 25 giving us a very respectable 2347 points. Link here to results
The results of the 50MHz Trophy contest of 20th September were released on 7th October. Steve M5BFL came first and Stewart G4AFF also represented NARC coming 11th both in the 6h Single op fixed section. Congratulations to Steve for his first place! Also locally the Trimingham contest team, M6R, which contained 3 NARC members, G4CDN, G6ELF and M0SYW managed an excellent second place in the Open section. Link here to results
The results of the 50MHz UKAC of 10th September were released on7th October. Our team came 5th and we remain 4th overall in this series. All our entries were in the Restricted section. Roger EI8KN topped our list with 552 points, He was followed by G4DYC, G8VPE, G3YLA and G3LDI. 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
Notably, the results of this year’s GR2HQ challenge from 11/12th July are still awaited.
The results of the RSGB FT4 contest of 28th September are out. In the 100W UK Single radio section, Ted G4OZG was 12th, Terry G0BIX was 25th, and Kevin M0KKM was 35th. Roger EI8KN was 6th in the 100W Non-UK Single Radio section Link here to results
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 the weekend of 3rd and 4th of October, the October UHF contest ran as well as the 23cm and 13cm Trophy contests. Activity was fairly good for these and conditions not too bad helped by the concurrent IARU Region 1 UHF contest running in Europe providing many stations to find and work. Club members spotted active in these tests were Terry G0BIX and Myself (G4LPP). Link here to Claimed scores October UHF – 23cm Trophy – 13cm Trophy
On Tuesday 6th October the 2m UKAC ran. Conditions were moderately lifted and the contacts came thick and fast with some reasonable DX. Best DX here was 811KM to SM7EYW. Unfortunately Stewart G4AFF had a problem with his transverter and couldn’t join us. Also making up the team we had Steve M5BFL, Mike G4KQY, Roger EI8KN, John G8VPE, Jim G3YLA, Mike G4DYC, Neil G4HUN and Richard G0VCW, so a good turnout. Link here to claimed scores
On 7th October the 2m FT8 AC 2h and 4h ran. In the 2h section Colin G0ODR featured. Link here to claimed scores 2h
On 8th October the 50MHz UKAC ran – conditions were, of course, terrible but 5 of us turned out. Several worked GI3SNA as best DX. Steve M5BFL claimed the highest number of contacts with 66 stations worked. Others on were myself, G8VPE, G3LDI and G3YLA. Link here to claimed scores
On HF
On Monday 5th October the 80m Autumn Series CW contest ran. We managed 15 entries with some excellent scores. Conditions were quite good and activity was reasonably good for the first hour. RSGB has received 156 logs and NARC’s team contributed 14 of them Link here to logs received
Several reports from club members too:-
Steve M5BFL reports his activity over the weekend in the Oceania DX SSB contest:-
Hi Phil
Just one for your contest section.
I entered the Oceania SSB contest last weekend – 06.00 UTC 3rd Oct to 06.00 UTC 4th Oct.
Conditions were not great with an SFI of 92 & K of 2 & 3.
Having said that I did better than expected –
Overall 129 Oceania stations in the log (17 on 40Mtr, 20 on 15Mtr & the rest on 20Mtr)
Only 4 Q’s on the Sun with band opening 15 mins before contest end 🙁
Highlights being –
VK9DX on 40Mtr
FK8GM on 15Mtr
FK8HC on 20Mtr
5W0AF on 20Mtr
Not to forget VJ0VM calling into my CQ call on 20Mtr.
Look forward to catching you on Tue’s 2Mtr contest & seeing you at the convention.
73
Steve
M5BFL Link to logs received Oceania DX test
Bob 2E0OBO sent this report of activity in the URC RTTY test in 2nd September and the TRC Cw test on 3rd:-
Hi Phil,
Contest this weekend-
Friday URC RTTY only 21 qso’s in one and half hours (broken in bits). Contacts hard to come by.🤔 Tracey 2E0CEY was there aswell
Saturday TRC cw section. 50 qso’s in 55 minutes, a little better😁
Catch you Monday on Autumn cw or Wednesday on CWT.
Best 73
Bob
2E0OBO Logs received URC RTTY test
Upcoming contests in the next 2 weeks (all times in UTC):-
On VHF / UHF / SHF
% Tue 13th Oct. 1900-2130 432MHz UKAC
% Wed 14th Oct. 1700-2100 432MHz FT8 AC (2h and 4h sections)
% Thus 15th Oct. 1900-2130 70MHz UKAC
% Sun 18th Oct. 0900-1300 50MHz AFS contest, part of RSGB AFS super league – link here to rules
%Sun 18th Oct. 0700-1000 UBA ON Contest CW & Phone 2m only – link here to rules
% Tue 20th Oct. 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
% Wed 14th Oct. 1900-2130 Autumn series DATA
% Sat 10th Oct. 0000-0800 and 1600-2400 and Sun 11th Oct. 0800-1600 Makrothen RTTY contest – link here to rules
% Sat 10th Oct. 0000-2359 QRP ARCI Fall QSO party, CW – link here to rules
% Sat 10th Oct. 0001-2359 10-10 International Day Sprint – link here to rules
% Sat 10th Oct. 0600for 24h Oceania DX CW contest – link here to rules
% Sat 10th Oct. 1200 for 36h SKCC Weekend Sprintathon CW – link here to rules
% Sat 10th Oct. 1200 for 24h Scandinavian SSB Activity Contest – link here to rules
% Sat 10th Oct 2000 for 24h PODXS 070 Club 160m Great Pumpkin Sprint PSK31 – link here to rules
% Sun 11th Oct. 0600-1000 UBA ON Contest CW (Belgium based) – link here to rules
% Wed 14th Oct. 1900-2030 Autumn series DATA
% Sat 17th Oct. 0000 for 48h JARL WW RTTY contest – link here to rules
% Sat 17th Oct. 1500 to Sun 18th Oct. 1459 Worked all Germany Contest CW and SSB – link here to rules
% Sat 17th Oct. 1500 for 24h Stew Perry Top Band CW challenge – link here to rules
% Sat 17th Oct. 2000-2359 Feld Hell Sprint – link here to rules
% Thu 22nd Oct. 1900-2030 Autumn series SSB
Please note the new mention of the ICWC MST contests – Medium speed – CW – these may appeal to those needing to practice. Link to the overall site 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
Finally 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 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
73 until next week,
Phil G4LPP