A regular contest activity – can you recognise the individuals?
Welcome to week two hundred and sixty one 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.
There will be no contest news next week as I am heading for the sun! I have entered an extra week of calendar dates this time.
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 10th October the results of the SHF UKAC of 22/9/2026 came out. Congratulations go to Graham G3SGC for coming 4th in the restricted section from a severely compromised location. I came 6th having lost 3 QSOs to UBNs – not my greatest effort! NARC are currently running5th on 2.3 GHz series having come 4th in that contest. We could do with some more Microwavers! Where are you all? Link here to results
The results of the 70MHz AFS contest of 20th September were released on 12th October. We came 9th out of 22 clubs despite the only entrant for us being myself, G4LPP. We, again, could do with more people stepping up for these club series which run with teams of up to 4. Link here to results This was the first contest in this year’s RSGB AFS Super League.
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.
John, G8VPE emailed me last week letting me know that the final results of the CQ WPX RTTY of 14/15 February are now out. To his surprise he came first in England 80m single band Low Power section. Tracey, 2E0CEY was 4th and Wilson G6ELF was 5th for all band entries in that section – link here to those final results
The results of the Autumn series DATA contest of24th September were released on 9th October. Needless to say we performed well as a team coming a very convincing first with 8,344 points and Newbury second on 3,476 points. Top scorers for NARC were Tracey, 2E0CEY who with here club multiplier of 1.5 scored 1,068 points. Jon G4IVV is to be congratulated on coming top in the 100W Assisted section scoring 1000 points for NARC.
The results of the Autumn series CW contest of 5th October were released on Monday 12th October. NARC also won this one convincingly scoring 9,419 points with Bristol second on 6,104 points. Top scorers for NARC in this one were Malcolm G3PDH, who came overall top in the 100W unassisted section and Peter G0K/P (M0RYB), who won the 10W Unassisted section, each scoring 1000 points for the club.
This means that after 4 contests in the series we now have 34,216 points with Bristol second on 19,249 points.
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 Monday the 13th October 432MHz UKAC ran. Conditions were reasonable for this one and 3 of us have entered logs for NARC. G4LPP, G4DYC, EI8KN and G8VPE. 138 logs have been received so far at RSGBCC. Best DX here was 727 Km to DH3NAN. Link here to claimed scores
On Wednesday 14th October the 432MHz FT8AC 2h and 4h ran. In the 2h section, Open, Roger EI8KN is 7th on claimed score. Link to clamed scores 2h
On Thursday 15th October the 70MHz UKAC ran. NARC members heard in this one were Stewart G4AFF, John G8VPE, Roger EI8KN, Phil G4LPP and new NARC team member Pete M0PCG – welcome. Conditions were difficult due to noise although propagation didn’t seem too bad from here. I could clearly hear EI2FG and EI8KN but they couldn’t copy me even though power levels were identical. Noise here was minimal though. Conditions seemed quite enhanced in the South of the country. Link here to claimed scores
On HF
Over the weekend of the 10th/11th October the Makrothen RTTY contest ran. Bob 2E0OBO entered and sent me this email:-
Hi Phil,
Quiet time this weekend. Only Makrothen rtty entered with 50 qso’s over two days. Tracey 2E0CEY was also there. The Belgium cw was not attempted this year as I remember the distinct lack of Belgium stations taking part last time!
Catch you on cwt Wed.
Best 73
Bob
2E0OBO
Link here to Makrothen RTTY logs received
On 14th October the 80m Autumn series DATA contest ran again. 15 of us turned out for this one. Several of us are getting to grips with Flex radios and SDC contesting software with gradually improving results. By far the stand out success story with this is Jon G4IVV who managed an excellent claimed number of QSOs once again of 146. Next closest was Roger G3LDI with 122. It looks like Jon will once again win the overall contest. Link here to logs received
Upcoming contests in the next 2 weeks (all times in UTC):-
On VHF / UHF / SHF
% 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
% Tue 27th Oct. 1930-2230 SHF UKAC
% Tue 3rd Nov. 2000-2230 144MHz UKAC
% Wed 4th Nov. 1700-2100 144MHz FT8 AC 2h and 4h
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 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
% Sat 24th Oct. 0000 to Sun 25th Oct. 2359 CQ WW DX SSB contest – link here to rules
% Mon 26th Oct. 2000-2200 RSGB FT4 contest
% Sat 31st Oct. 1200 for 24h UKEI DX SSB contest (part of the RSGB HF Championship) – link here to rules
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 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 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
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73 until next week,
Phil G4LPP