2000
1999
1998
1997
Callsign Locator 24GHz 47GHz Total
G8IFT/P IO82Ql
493 156
649
G3PHO/P IO93Ei+
531 -
531
GW3UKV/P IO83KA69
321 150
471
G7MRF/P IO93AD
217 188
405
G3ZTR/P IO93PV
185 -
185
G3PHO/P seem to be the only one to make use of the rover scheme and does quite well as a result. Does every (any) one else know about it? Please re-read the Microwave Contest Rules to find out what the "Rover" concept is all about.
Once again there were no
entries for the 76GHz band, in spite of known activity on the day.
YEAR 2000 10GHz CUMULATIVE CONTEST SERIES
Callsign Sect May June
July Aug Sept Oct
Points Squares Total Position
Bonus
G4ZXO/P O
4172 4538 5235 5778 5039 2539
20590 21
432390 1
G3PHO/P O
3575 4499 6330 7061 4083
21973 18
395514 2
G3UKV/P O
3438 8368 3886
2373 18065
18 325170 3
GW3ATM/P R
1692 2545 2181 2347 2181
9254 14
129556 1 (R
SECT)
G3LRP O
2522 1691 2761 1955 1775 1474
9013 12
108156 4
G4NNS O
604 1180 2486 1935 1805 1296
7522 12
90264 5
G4UET/P O
3288 2685 4879 4602
15454 ?
15454 6
G4LDR O
2497 3423 2527 1630 2439 649
10886 ?
10886 7
Bad Points
Some people still cannot read the rules
with regard to square multipliers - none claimed none counted !!!
Ditto sections, anyone entering the SINGLE
section is regarded as being in the OPEN
One station caught adding the multiplied
score to the basic score giving effectively an extra multiplier - GOTCHA
!
Good points
Only one restricted entry GW3ATM/P, respectable
even for open so included in the overall table.
You've been beaten at last Peter !
G3ZXO's result reads more like 144 MHz
than 10 GHz!
73 FROM ANDY, G4JNT, ADJUDICATOR
SEPTEMBER
2000 24/47/76GHz CONTEST
CALLSIGN LOCATOR 24GHz 47GHz Total
G8BKE/P
IO91GI 182
211 393
G3FYX/P
IO81XW 242
125 367
G4KNZ/P
IO81XW 242
125 367
G3PHO/P
IO93etc. 155
- 155
G3FYX actually claimed one less point than
G4KNZ for identical contacts so I
had to correct his score.
What happened Peter, one band only and
you didn't even win that one ?!
Andy, G4JNT, Adjudicator
RANKINGS BASED ON RAW SCORES:
CALLSIGN LOCATOR 1.3GHz 2.3GHz 3.4GHz 5.7GHz 10GHz 24GHz TOTAL
1.G3PHO/P IO93AD51 1227
997 1832 85 4121
2.G6ARC/P IO91FH30 594
547 1331
2472
3.G4LDR IO91EC
364 30
421 862
1877
4.GW4KNZ/P IO70OW
678
678
FINAL RANKINGS, BASED ON NORMALISED SCORES:
CALLSIGN LOCATOR 1.3GHz 2.3GHz 3.4GHz 5.7GHz 10GHz 24GHz TOTAL
1.G3PHO/P IO93AD51 1000
1000 1000 1000 4000
2.G4LDR IO91EC
297 1000
422 471
2190
3.G6ARC/P IO91FH30 484
549 727
1760
4.GW4KNZ/P IO70OW
686
686
Adjudicator’s Comments:
Where was everyone else and why was no one on
3.4 and 47GHz?
Who IS this Sheffield station that seems to
win all the events these days?!
Make sure you put enough postage on the envelope.
One entrant owes me the grand total of 26p ….. 6p postage excess,
20p Post Office handling charge!!
73 from Andy G4JNT
Editor’s Comments:
Can someone give us a little competition please?!
More logs are needed next time or these multiband contests could very well
disappear … that’s a threat, not a promise!
An important note from the Microwave Committee Contest Adjudicator, G4JNT:
Please note, in future EMAILED ONLY contest entries cannot be guaranteed to not get lost in the rather complicated matrix of EMail accounts and firewalled computers. To make certain I receive your entry please send it by post!
This contest is ranked on the NORMALISED SCORES,
first shown in Raw form below and then in final Normalised form.
(1) Raw Points scored per Band
Callsign Locator 1.3GHz
2.3GHz 3.4GHz 5.7GHz 10GHz 24GHz
G3PHO/P IO93AD51 1545
0 0 1140
4499 85
G4LDR IO91EC
1293 522 0
1065 3423 0
G3FYX/P IO91GI
0 576 129
906 1972 26
G4BRK IO91DP
1946 353 37
650 2227 0
G3XDY JO02OB
1405 684 0
0 1350 0
G4KNZ IO91IN
38 0 0
488 77 24
G4NNS IO91FF
0 0 0
45 1187 0
(2) Normalised points
1.3GHz 2.3GHz 3.4GHz 5.7GHz 10GHz 24GHz Total
G3PHO/P IO93AD51 794
0 0 1000
1000 1000 3794
G3FYX/P IO91GI
0 842 1000
795 438 306 3381
G4LDR IO91EC
664 763
0 934 761
0 3122
G4BRK IO91DP
1000 516 287
570 495 0 2868
G3XDY JO02OB
722 1000 0
0 300 0 2022
G4KNZ IO91IN
20 0
0 428 17
282 747
G4NNS IO91FF
0 0
0 39 264
0 303
Andy G4JNT
ps. What happened to any 47GHz entries
? G3PHO probably won because he included a good 24GHz entry!
24/47GHz
CONTEST RESULTS: APRIL 2000
amended 2 June 2000 with G0IVA score
24 GHz 47 GHz
1) G8IFT/P IO82QL 630 257
2) G3FYX/P IO81XW 413 168 (Also 6 on 76GHz)
3) G3PHO/P IO93AD,FB,FI 479 -
4) G4BRK IO91DP 265 -
5) G0IVA/P IO93AD 148 116
Congratulations to Ian, G8IFT,
who leads both the individual bands and the combined scores. Roy, G3FYX,
had success on 76GHz but as the rules for this year do not include that
band we can only list his score as above, Next year the 76GHz band will
be included in the contest (which will be known as the Millimetre Band
Contest)
The following operators were also known to have been active during this contest. Where are their log entries you might ask?
G0HNW/P, G3UYM/P, G3ZTR/P, G6UAJ/P, G8ACE/P, G8BKE/P
Other UK stations known to have 24GHz equipment, but who were not about during the contest, include G3GNR, G3LQR, G3NWU, G3PYB, G3UKV, G3WDG, G4CBW, G4EQD, G4DDK, G4FCD, G4MAP, G4XHS, G6GXK, G8AGN, G8AYY, G8KMH, G8VOI and G0FDZ
“Apologies for absence” were received prior to the contest from G3UKV, G4DDK, G4KNZ and G7MRF so we will let them off! Had all these 25 unlisted callsigns appeared in the results table above it would certainly raise the esteem of the millimetre bands in the eyes of the general amateur public. So please send in your logs to Andy, G4JNT, next time (June contest).
Some interesting discussion took
place on the 80 metre UK Microwave Net the day after this contest. It was
felt by some that the 76GHz activity on the day took away operators from
24GHz, a band which really suffered this time. One station spent a great
deal of time working on the higher band so that when he came back to the
2m talkback and tried to find 24GHz stations they had all gone home! It
was then suggested that, for the millimetre band contests only, a “roll
call” at 0900GMT on 144.175MHz should take place. Skeds could then be made
for the rest of the day so that each band gets its fair share of operating
time and those folk with, say, only 24GHz do not get pushed out of the
picture. Perhaps we can try this on June 11th?
1999 SUMMER UK MICROWAVE 10GHz CUMULATIVE CONTEST RESULTS
Final Results are based on the best four monthly scores.
OPEN SECTION: Greater
than 1 watt output on 10GHz
(Amended 28 November 1999 to include
G4LDR whose logs originally went astray!)
CALLSIGN May June July Aug Sept Oct Points SQs TOTAL
G4ZXO/P 2475 4084 7485 3428 3243 2830 18240 22 401280
G3FYX/P 2050 2585 3006 3082 - 2465 11138 15 167070
G4BRK - 2724 1840 - 3337 - 7901 13 102713
G3JMY 1168 1865 2050 2210 1836 2219 8344 12 100128
G4LDR - - 2745 - 1399 1411 5555 13 72215
G4NNS 1235 1006 607 1195 557 1720 5156 10 51560
G8BKE/P - - - - - 1193 1193 5 5965
G8IMR 440 - - - - - 440 3 1320
RESTRICTED
SECTION: less that 1 watt RF output on 10GHz.
G3PHO/P 2003 3561 4393 4102 4293 4847 17635 14 246890
G4UET/P 1750 1906 - 2336 2133 2505 8874 14 124236
G8VOI/P 1419 2266 3768 - - - 7453 14 104342
G(D)3UKV/P - 505 4732 - 1168 1053 7476 13 97188
OCTOBER
1999 24/47GHz CONTESTS
24GHz Callsign km/points
1. G4KNZ/P 702
2. G3PHO/P 540
3= G4BRK/P 483
3= G7MRF/P 483
5. G3FYX/P 372
6. G8IFT/P 335
7. G3UYM/P 303
8. G8BKE/P 275
47GHz
1. G4KNZ/P 388
2. G3FYX/P 185
3. G7MRF/P 176
4. G8IFT/P 174
5. G3UYM/P 32
Combined Scores
1. G4KNZ/P 1090
2. G7MRF/P 695
3. G3FYX/P 557
4. G3PHO/P 540
5. G8IFT/P 509
6. G4BRK/P 483
7. G3UYM/P 335
8. G8BKE/P 275
SEPTEMBER 1999 24/47GHz CONTESTS
24GHz:
Pos.CALLSIGN LOCATOR(S) KM POINTS COMBINED SCORES
1. G3PHO/P IO93AP31/FB44
440 1. GW7MRF/P 712
2. G8IFT/P IO82QL
416 2. G8IFT/P 560
3. GW7MRF/P IO83JA88
397 3. G3PHO/P 440
4. G3FYX/P IO81XW
216 4. G3FYX/P 326
5. G8BKE/P IO90MX
54 5. G8BKE/P 108
47GHz:
1. GW7MRF/P IO83JA88
315
2. G8IFT/P IO82QL
144
3. G3FYX/P IO81XW
110
4. G8BKE/P IO90MX
54
There appears to be a breed of microwaver that wants contests to take place in order to generate sufficient band activity that he/she might have lots of stations to work. If you do not send in even a token check log then why have the contest in the first place? Would you rather have activity days instead? It would make things a lot easier for at least two of the Microwave Committee! It would then be a simple matter of saying that every fourth Sunday of the month was microwave activity day (as is every Monday evening at present … and how many turn up for that?!).
It is important for the microwave scene in the UK to be recognised as having a very active group of operators. If not, we will see more and more of our bands being sliced up and shared out among commercial concerns. It has taken years to finally having our contest programme published in this year’s October RadCom. Please support us by sending in entries if you operate during those events.
If you have not sent in your 10GHz
Cumulative and October All Bands logs to Andy, G4JNT, please do so right
now….. he will stretch the deadline for them this once!
1.3GHz 5.7GHz 10GHz
RAW NORMALISED
SCORE SCORE
G4BRK IO91DP
1298 37 2734
4069 3000
(1000) (1000) (1000)
1.3GHz 2.3GHz 3.4GHz 5.7GHz 10GHz RAW NORMALISED
SCORE SCORE
G4KNZ/P IO80EF - 115 115 945 - 1185 2688
(1000) (688) (1000)
G4BRK/P IO81XW 2513 - - 167 529 3209 2559
(1000) (1000) (559)
G4LDR IO90EC 130 - - 547 1781 2458 1421
(52) (579) (790)
G4ERP/P IO81XW - - - - 2255 2255 1000
(1000)Band scores have been normalised to 1000 and are shown RED in brackets below raw scores. The entries are ranked on normalised scores. Individual band winners are those with 1000 points. Congratulations to the winners and many thanks for making the effort to send in your logs. It’s a shame you were not given much competition but, as the saying goes, “he who dares wins”!
24GHzLooks as if Roy, G3FYX, wiped the floor with them again on 47GHz!.
Callsign Location(s) Points
G7MRF/P IO82QJ93 697
G3FYX/P IO81XW 558
G3UYM/P IO92CA 380
G4BRK/P IO91CL 300
G0IVA/P IO83RO/83WE 227
G4PHO/P IO93FB44 19847GHz
Callsign Location(s) Points
G3FYX/P IO81XW 429
G7MRF/P IO82QJ93 348
G0IVA/P IO83RO/83WE 254
G3UYM/P IO92CA 81
Andy
G4JNT, Contest adjudicator
The 10GHz trophy was won by the Parallel Lines Group, who established a clear lead over the field.
Steve G8GSQ
Pos Call Points Mult Total QSO Loc Pwr Ant best dx(km)
1 G4LIP/P 6290 22 138380 30 01QD 10W 1.2m DK2MN 421
2 G0EMG/P 3577 17 60809 18 01QX 15W 60cm DK2MN 405
3 G3ZME/P 4013 13 52169 36 82QL 1W 60/75cm G4LIP/P 311
4 G8VOI/P 2597 14 36358 18 90MX 0.8W 60cm F6APE 403
5 G8LSD/P 2420 11 26620 16 90TV 1W 30cm G3PHO/P 371
6 G3PHO/P 2345 9 21105 11 94KF 950mW 1.2m G4LIP/P 380
7 G3JMB/P 2038 10 20380 15 90TV 900mW 60cm G3LRP 308
8 G4LDR 1767 10 17670 16 91EC 8W 90cm F1GHB/P 307
9 G3FYX 1620 8 12960 13 81RM 10W 45cm G4LIP/P 272
10 G4MAP/P 1546 8 12368 15 92GB 1W 1.2m G4LIP/P 221
11 G4LRT 799 6 4794 7 92LJ 1.2W 40cm G0API 193
12 G8FFM/P 575 5 2875 5 91RU 1W 40cm G3PHO/P 267
13 G1MPW/P 404 4 1616 5 91XH 1W ? G0API 153
14 G6DER 77 3 231 1 93GN 800mW 1.4m G3PHO/P 77Webmaster's comments: It's the first time that we have these Trophy results adjudicated by the RSGB VHF Committee. They will be doing the same each year from now on. The rest of the UK Microwave Contests will be adjudicated by Andy, G4JNT, as normal.
The results of the contest, held on 18 April 1999 are shown below.
Band winners are G3FYX/P (24GHz) and G7MRF/P (47GHz). A combined band score is included for interest but the contest is a separate band affair.
G8ACE/P sent in a log but unfortunately did not include sufficiently accurate location and time information for scoring purposes. It has been used as a checklog.
Well done to everyone..
73, Andy,
G4JNT - Contest Adjudicator
|
|
SCORES |
Pos.CALLSIGN POINTS |
Pos.CALLSIGN POINTS |
Pos.CALLSIGN POINTS |
1. G3FYX/P 366 |
1. G7MRF/P 116 |
1. G3FYX/P 444 |
2. G7MRF/P 266 |
2. G0IVA/P 90 |
2. G7MRF/P 382 |
3. G4BRK/P 226 |
=3. G3FYX/P 78 |
3. G0IVA/P 278 |
4. G3PHO/P 208 |
=3. G4KNZ/P 78 |
4. G4BRK/P 226 |
5. G0IVA/P 188 |
5. G3PHO/P 208 |
|
6. G4KNZ/P 124 |
6. G4KNZ/P 202 |
|
7. G3ZTR/P 84 |
7. G3ZTR/P 84 |
Locations used by contestants were as follows:
G3FYX/P: IO80XW
G7MRF/P: IO82NN, IO82MN
G4BRK/P: IO91FX, IO91BT, IO91FN
G3PHO/P: IO93FI, IO93EI, IO93AD
G0IVA/P: IO93AD57
G4KNZ/P: IO91MP
G3ZTR/P: IO93PW
There were three sections. Open, Restricted and Wideband. The Restricted section allowed up to 1 watt RF to the antenna on 10GHz. The Wideband section allowed up to 100mW at greater than 50kHz bandwidth.
Pos Callsign Locator(s) -----------Points claimed ------------- QSO Square Total Section May June July August Sept Oct Points Bonus Points 1 G8VOI/P IO90MX24 4597 2837 6564 1818 4015 2130 18013 5500 23513 O (As Declared) 2 G3UKV/P IO82RQ 5267 4453 6126 3195 19041 4000 23041 R (Incl Wideband) 3 G3FYX/P IO91GI, IO81PH 3689 2870 5451 1637 3613 1555 15623 5500 21123 O 4 G3PHO/P IO94NI20, IO93EH 4247 2854 5269 2394 3330 3438 16284 3500 19784 R 5 (F/)G3ZXO/P JO00BU 4309 3119 3054 3660 2533 14142 4750 18892 R 6 G4BCH/P IO90JO 1389 3692 2712 4250 12043 4500 16543 R 7 G8LSD/P JO01BB, IO90TV 2849 3311 1807 2894 10861 4250 15111 R 8 G0API IO80XS 3523 2474 2577 1749 10323 4000 14323 O 9 G3JMY IO81RM95 2481 1593 2833 1933 2993 10240 4000 14240 R 10 G3JMB/P JO01BB14, IO90TV 2668 2161 2104 2510 9443 4000 13443 R 11 G4ERP/P IO81XW 718 2877 2744 2592 8930 3750 12680 R 12 G4UET/P JO00BU, IO91UI 2836 1341 1260 2976 8413 3250 11663 R 13 G1EHF/P IO91GI 1629 1163 1492 1449 1542 6112 3750 9862 R 14 G8ZQP/P IO92NP 1036 1134 1839 1958 5967 2000 7967 R 15 G4BRK IO91DP52 3482 3482 3500 6982 O 16 G8IMR IO90IV58EI 1713 1887 3600 2750 6350 O 17 G3LRP/P IO93HO08 188 122 414 581 1550 1357 3920 2000 4311 R
RESTRICTED SECTION
1 G3UKV/P IO82RQ 5267 4453 6126 3195 19041 4000 23041 R (Incl Wideband) 2 G3PHO/P IO94NI20, IO93EH 4247 2854 5269 2394 3330 3438 16284 3500 19784 R 3 (F/)G3ZXO/P JO00BU 4309 3119 3054 3660 2533 14142 4750 18892 R 4 G4BCH/P IO90JO 1389 3692 2712 4250 12043 4500 16543 R 5 G8LSD/P JO01BB, IO90TV 2849 3311 1807 2894 10861 4250 15111 R 6 G3JMY IO81RM95 2481 1593 2833 1933 2993 10240 4000 14240 R 7 G3JMB/P JO01BB14, IO90TV 2668 2161 2104 2510 9443 4000 13443 R 8 G4ERP/P IO81XW 718 2877 2744 2592 8930 3750 12680 R 9 G4UET/P JO00BU, IO91UI 2836 1341 1260 2976 8413 3250 11663 R 10 G1EHF/P IO91GI 1629 1163 1492 1449 1542 6112 3750 9862 R 11 G8ZQP/P IO92NP 1036 1134 1839 1958 5967 2000 7967 R 12 G3LRP/P IO93HO08 188 122 414 581 1550 1357 3920 2000 5920 R 13 G4SJH/P IO91PF, IO91QF 1001 506 490 564 2561 1750 4311 R
Notes
G8VOI entered the Open section, even though his 800mW would have allowed a Restricted Section entry. He claims 10GHz activity down due to the multiband events in June/August and due to the rescheduled dates, away from the last Sunday of the month. G3UKV claimed the triple points wideband bonus for a number of ATV contacts, some of which gave worthwhile point totals for the mode.
There were few comments on rules and dates so we assume most people are happy! Conditions were very average to flat most weekends.
Position Callsign Location(s) Stations Points Best Dx(km)
1 GW0IVA/P IO83BF16 5 516 183
2 GM7MRF/P IO74UU 2 290 183
3 G3PHO/P IO93EI57/EH98/AD51/AN92 4 231 90
4 G3UYM/P IO92CA 2 141 80
5 G3ZTR/P IO93OX 1 94 84
6 G4BRK/P IO91CL 2 90 90
All stations were using narrowband equipment, based on the DB6NT designs. The 35cm offset dish was the most popular used. G3PHO/P also had a 5mW wideband FM transceiver available in addition to his DB6NT Mk2 narrowband transverter. G8AYY/P (see list below) was wideband only.
COMMENTS:
GW0IVA - Highlight was working GM7MRF/P at 183km, ..... several attempts before a two way was possible
G3PHO - Northern activity good. Southern very poor. Used the "rover" method... 112 miles around Peak National Park!
G3UYM - Very disappointing, 170 mile round trip for this!
G4BRK - Very poor activity.
OTHER STATIONS KNOWN TO BE ACTIVE DURING THE CONTEST:
G4CBW/P (IO83RP), G4XHS/P (IO83RP), G8AYY/9 (IO93AD), GW3FNQ/P (Anglesey), G8ACE/P (IO91GI),
G4GRU/P (near Macclesfield).
These plus the entries above make a grand total of 12 stations out during the day. Entries from these others would have been very welcome!
G4JNT's (Adjudicator) comments
-
The title is 24 and 47 GHz contest, have I lost the 47 results then?!!
AUGUST 1998 ALL BAND RSGB MICROWAVE CONTEST
(amended 26 October 1998 to include G4BRK/P's
log which was mislaid during the first adjudication)
RAW BAND SCORES:
Band scores are shown in km points. Figure in brackets is number of QSOs.
Under the Contest Rules, the raw scores are normalised around a base of 1000. These scores are shown after the raw scores and represent the final results:
POS. CALLSIGN LOCATION 1.3GHz 2.3GHz 3.4GHz 5.7GHz 10GHz 24GHZ 47GHz TOTAL 1 G3PHO/P IO93EH 641(3) - - - 2394(13) - - 3035 2 G4ERP/P IO81XW - - - - 2877(18) - - 2877 3 G8VOI IO90MX - - 129(1) 129(1) 1818(13) - - 2076 4 G4BRK/P IO81XW - - 890(4) 827(4) - - - 1717 RESULTS AFTER NORMALISATION TO 1000: 1 G4BRK/P IO81VX` 0 0 1000 1000 0 0 0 2000 2 G3PHO/P IO93EH 1000 0 0 0 832 0 0 1832 3 G4ERP/P IO81XW 0 0 0 0 1000 0 0 1000 4 G8VOI/P IO90MX 0 0 145 156 632 0 0 933 THE OVERALL WINNER is therefore Neil, G4BRK/P BAND WINNERS:
1.3GHz: G3PHO/P 2.3GHz: no entries 3.4GHz: G4BRK/P 5.7GHz: G4BRK/P 10 GHz: G4ERP/P 24/47GHz:no entries COMMENTS: The FOUR stations listed above are congratulated on their achievements, for reaching the positions they did and for submitting their entries. Where where all the others known to be active during the day. Some THIRTY UK stations are known to have been active on 10GHz that day but most have not bothered to send in even check logs to the contest adjudicator. This contest is an all bands affair and as such is scored to reflect that. Notes how the raw score positions differ to the final, normalised results.
JUNE 1998 ALL BANDS RSGB MICROWAVE CONTEST
Band scores are shown in km points. Figure in brackets is number of QSOs.
Under the Contest Rules, the raw scores are normalised around a base of 1000. These scores are shown after the raw scores and represent the final
RAW SCORES:
BAND WINNERS: Pos. Callsign 1.3GHz 2.3GHz 3.4GHz 5.7GHz 10GHz 24GHz 47GHz Total 1 G8VOI/P - 92(2) 311(3) 1262(7) 2837(20) - - 4502 2 G3FYX/P 140(2) 872(5) 2877(20) - - 3889 3 G3PHO/P 313(2) 2854(21) 14(1) 3181 RESULTS AFTER NORMALISATION TO 1000 1 G8VOI/P 0 1000 1000 1000 986 0 3986 2 G3PHO/P 1000 0 0 0 992 1000 2992 3 G3FYX/P 0 0 450 690 1000 0 2141
1.3GHz, 24GHz: G3PHO/P
2.3GHz, 3.4GHz, 5.7GHz: G8VOI/P
10GHz: G3FYX/P
OVERALL WINNER: G8VOI/P
CONTEST ADJUDICATOR'S COMMENTS:
The results of the JUNE 1998 ALL BANDS MICROWAVE CONTEST are shown in the table above. There were so few entries that I initially lost them under an 0805 surface mount resistor!! When I eventually found them I was able to score them on a single “Post It” note....such was the very poor support for a contest that all and sundry asked for last year!
Congratulations to all THREE entrants, both for their results and their support for the event.
The results are shown both in raw score form (points per km) and in a ‘normalised’ version where the leading score becomes 1000 points and others are scaled to it. There are too few entries for this method to be very meaningful but notice how the rank order of total normalised scores differs to the raw score totals. It is interesting to note that had, say, G3PHO/P made the only contact on 47GHz, he would then have become overall winner, pipping G8VOI/P by 6 points, even it that contact had only been over 1 kilometre! Under the contest rules, the normalised scores are the ones that count.
Where were the rest of you? The middle band entrants logs included callsigns such as G0HNW/P, G3KEU/P, G3LQR, G1JRU and G4BCH/P yet none of these sent in even a check log. Where were all those working 47GHz stations? Where were the 23cm operators? Various comments have been received regarding other “pressing” commitments on the day ... eg the Longleat rally, the Grand Prix motor race, football, etc! The clash with Longleat is an acceptable excuse but have you heard of video recorders for the others? Do you really want to watch TV instead of doing microwaves?
Apathy as shown in this poor turn out does not send the right signals to others who may have thoughts of entering “our” section of this fine hobby. Let’s have some real support for the rest of the contest season...
73 from Andy, G4JNT, Contest Adjudicator
MAY
1998 RSGB 10GHz TROPHY CONTEST
The number of entries is still poor, considering the number of stations on, but probably reflects the very poor conditions. The Northern Lights, G0EMG/P, (as would a few others) would have a better score if they'd read the rules on calculation of multipliers but as it is they will have to accept the lower placing.
G0API, who forgot to put in his entry, would have come second but he refused to let me take it in as a late entry as it was his 'stupid mistake' forgetting to send them. Pity really, the only home station coming second!
Notes: The scores were calculated using the following formula:
Claimed points per km x postcode multiplier x country multiplier = final score
POS.CALLSIGN LOCATION TOTAL KM POSTCODES COUNTRIES FINAL SCORE
1 G3ZME/P IO82QL 4055 24 2 194640
2 G8VOI/P IO90MX24 2277 14 2 63756
3 G0EMG/P JO02QV 3911 14 -- 54754 **
4 G4LIP/P JO01QD 3518 13 -- 45734 **
5 G3JMB/P JO01BB14 1849 10 2 36980
6 G4BCH/P IO90JO 2008 15 -- 30120 **
7 G0MJW/P IO91IN 2048 12 1 24576
8 G0IVA/P IO93AD 2250 10 1 22500 **
9 G3PHO/P IO93PW37 2050 9 1 18450
10 G8FFM/P IO91RU 513 2 1 1026
11 G4BRK/P JO01QD 206 3 1 618
12 G8AYY/P IO93AF 94 1 1 94The number of entries is low in spite of some 30 stations or so being active on 3cm and even though the contest ran in parallel with an RSGB 432 Up contest.
Most stations complained about the appalling conditions. Both 10GHz and 144MHz were in poor shape North/South. A number of previously proven paths did not work.
Only one adverse comment on multiplier system from G8VOI who thought the postcodes were 'silly'.
The stations marked ** did not read the rules about multiplying multipliers and just used countries plus postcodes. Their total therefore is just the claimed score!! Read the rules next time.....
Needless to say, the table would look rather different otherwise. Those who would have a reduced score because of this error HAVE been corrected. G3ZME considered the multiplication of countries by districts to be unfair and gives too much weighting to the number of countries worked.
G0API (Home station) "FORGOT" to
send in his entry. It would have been :
G0API IO80XS77
2504 15 2 75120
This score would have given him second place!! John let me (G4JNT) know by phone, but did not try to even persuade me to accept the late entry as "It wouldn't be fair" not to enforce the time limit. What's more, it was the only home station entry.
73 from Andy, G4JNT, contest adjudicator.
1ST 24GHz/47GHz CONTEST: 19 APRIL 1998
From: Andy Talbot <drassew2@interalpha.co.uk> Date: 16 May 1998 12:49
Pos. Callsign Location(s) Stations Points Best Dx 1 G3PHO/P IO93EI, IO93FB44, IO93AD55 7 601 117 2 G4BRK/P IO91EU60, IO92CA06 9 415 117 3 G7MRF/P IO82NN 3 284 118 4 G3UYM/P IO92CA 5 281 117 5 GW0IVA/P IO83LC35 4 277 73 6 G3FNQ/P IO83RO95 3 217 120 7 G3ZTR/P IO93PW37 1 86 86 8 G8VOI/P IO90MX24 2 85 53 9 G4GRU/P IO83XG99 1 73 73G3PHO's score was reduced by 0.1 point for trying to claim fractional points!
COMMENTS :
G8VOI - Cold/Wet/Windy lousy! More people should take 10 GHz along to align dishes.
G3UYM- Short paths worked
well, long paths to Hope Mountain failed but were worked last year.
G3PHO- Poor weather conditions...
thick mist in morning and torrential rain in late afternoon. The
little DB6NT barefoot mixer worked a treat with only 200 microwatts o/p.
Worked Alport Height to Broadway path for first time... no go on wideband
with 50mW but 539 on cw with 200uW !
73 from Andy, G4JNT, Contest Adjudicator
Here are the results of the 10GHz
and 24 GHz Cumulative Contests held throughout the summer months of 1996.
The late publication of these results is regretted but was beyond the editor's
control......
Individual monthly raw scores (total kilometres) are shown for comparison purposes
ALL THE STATIONS ABOVE USED NARROWBAND MODES (SSB/CW)
1) Everyone moved around to optimise their squares worked
2) The number of squares is related to the general distance and number of stations worked and therefore does not work as a separate independant bonus, more as a non linear expansion of the points
A few comments about scoring. Could everyone please provide a summary of points in each and every session BEFORE adding bonus points. Then add the bonus points and make it clear which is which.
Unlike the VHF contest committee I am not
interested in files of the .LOG format, "ESPECIALLY" "IF" "EVERY" "ENTRY"
"IS" "SURROUNDED" "BY" "INVERTED" "COMMAS". Plain text files, or
of course the only good microwave scoring programme, are preferred.
I can read just about any format by using a spreadsheet to convert, but
when text has to be changed to numbers, I am not a happy scorer!
The first total column is used for ranking this year.
2. G3FYX/P 70 590 385 245 1138 1500 2638
3. G3PHO/P 240 532 169 941 750 1691
4. G3UYM/P 45 351 121 517 750 1267
5. G8AYY/P 80 28 67 175 750 925
Congratulations to the leading stations. Once again, activity and contest entries were under par. With the advent of narrowband there hopefully should be a marked increase in 24GHz activity in 1997.
In the table above, G3PHO/P and G8AYY/P
used wideband FM equipment only. The rest used either narrowband exclusively
or mixed narrow/wide.