A blast from the past – it would be good to repeat this success!
Welcome to week two hundred and sixty three 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
First. Apologies to Roger EI8KN, who I neglected to mention last time in the AFS result. Although he can’t enter the AFS series for us, points out that he was top scoring non-uk station in the 70MHz AFS. Congratulations on that achievement!
On 31st October the result of the 13cm trophy contest of 3/10/2026 was released. The only NARC member involved was G4LPP who came 5th in the Single Operator Fixed section. Link here to results
The 31st October also saw the release of the results of the 23cm Trophy also of 3/10/2026. Once again the only NARC member involved was G4LPP who came 6th. Link here to results
Also on 31st October the overall results of the October UHF contest of 3rd October came out. On 432MHz G0BIX entered for Gower/Gwyr coming 10th in the 6H single operator fixed section. On 23cm G4LPP came 4th in the Single Operator fixed section. On 13cm G4LPP came joint second in the Single operator fixed section gaining a certificate for leading station running 25W or less. We had no entries on other bands. Link here to results
The current VHF championship placings are at this link here
On 1st November the results of the 50MHz AFS contest of 18th October came out. There were only 2 entries from NARC members. Roger EI8KN was 4th overall and the leading non-UK entrant. He notably also gained what was by far the longest DX by working IQ8HP at 2339Km using 100W to a 5 element beam. John G8VPE came 49th using 100W to a 3 element beam. Link here to results
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
The results of the Autumn series DATA contest of 14th October are out. NARC’s team of 11 entrants once again had an easy win this time over Bristol scoring 9,739 points compared to their 4,249. Leading scorer for us and indeed in the contest in the 100W assisted section was Jon G4IVV with 1000 points for 143 QSOs. Tracey 2E0CEY in the 100W unassisted section came 4th overall but with her Intermediate licence uplift scored 1,267 points for the club! Link here to results
The results of the Autumn series SSB contest of 22nd October are also out. 11 NARC stations entered scoring 6,050 points and beating Newbury into second place, who scored 4,252. Top scorer for NARC was Andy M0NKR who came second in the 100W section with a magnificent 152 QSOs. Link here to results
Currently NARC lead the Autumn series with 50,005 points over Bristol’s 25,614 points. Link here to overall 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 Tuesday 3rd November the 144MHz UKAC ran. Conditions were fairly good for this one and 10 stations have put in scores for NARC. One new member entering for us is Brendan G8IXK from Luton. Welcome to the team! I thoroughly enjoyed this one finding lots of DX with the best being Chris SM6VTZ at 893Km who I note also was best DX for Stewart G4AFF at 933Km (which also looks to be the best DX of this contest). Link here to claimed scores
On Wednesday 4th November the 144MHz FT8AC 2h and 4h ran. In the 2h contest club members who have entered logs so far are G8IXK, G0BIX and G0ODR. In the 4h section just G0BIX. Link here to 2h claimed scores
On HF
First this email from Bob 2E0OBO about his recent activities:-
Hi Phil,
Herewith latest contest news. Wed 28th Oct – UKEI CW, Can’t seem to get more than 60 qso’s in this contest! Sat 31st Oct – RUS WW MM, mixed rtty/cw, rtty was slow going so changed to cw and finished off the score to 50 qso’s. Sun1st Nov – Silent Key Contest (cw),
0600 to 0900, condx cud have been better but ran for 3 hours on 40M getting 83 qso’s using Steve G3PND callsign which I have been doing since Steve’s passing.
Catch you on cwt’s Wed.
73
Bob
2E0OBO
Links to logs received:- UKEI 80m CW Russian Multimode test SK memorial test – link to website (couldn’t see a logs received page)
On Monday 2nd November the 80m Autumn series DATA contest ran. 17 of us entered what was a lively session with reasonably good conditions. Highest claimed score for us goes to Jon G4IVV with 145 contacts. Tracey 2E0CEY worked well with 105 qsos. Results look good for another NARC win. Link here to logs received
Upcoming contests in the next 2 weeks (all times in UTC):-
On VHF / UHF / SHF
% Sat 7th Nov. 1400 for 24h 144MHz CW Marconi contest Part of he RSGB VHF CW championship – link here to rules
% Tue 10th Nov. 2000-2230 432MHz UKAC
% Wed 11th Nov. 1700-2100 432MHz FT8 AC 2h and 4h
% Thu 12th Nov. 2000-2230 50MHz UKAC
% Tue 17th Nov. 2000-2230 1.3GHz UKAC
% Thu 19th Nov. 2000-2230 70MHz 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 7th Nov. 0000 to Sun 8th Nov. 2359 YBDXPI FT8 contest – link here to rules
% Sat 7th Nov. 0600-1800 IPARC CW contest – link here to rules
% Sun 8th Nov. 0600-1800 IPARC SSB contest – link here to rules
% Wed 11th Nov. 2000-2130 Autumn series SSB – link here to rules
% Sat 14th Nov. 2000-2300 Club Calls 1.8MHz AFS contest – RSGB HF championship and AFS Super League – link here to rules
% Sat 14th Nov. 0000 to Sun 15th Nov. 2359 WAE DX Contest RTTY – link here to rules
% Sat 14th Nov. 0000 to Mon 16th Nov. 2359 PODXS 070 Club Triple Play Low Band Sprint, PSK31 – link here to rules
% Sat 14th Nov. 0001 to Sun 15th Nov. 2359 10-10 int. Fall Contest Digital 10m only – link here to rules
% Sat 14th Nov. 1200 for 24h OK/OM DX Contest CW – link here to rules
% Sun 15th Nov. 1300-1500 (40m) and 1500-1700 (80m) Homebrew and Oldtime Equipment Party CW – link here to rules
% Mon 16th Nov. 2000-2200 RSGB FT4 contest – 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
Almost finally, Alan G8OO has sent an email concerning a new way of looking at the amateur radio world map, making headings easier to visualise. It’s called QTH Worldmap by Ham, DB6LL – a link to it is here
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