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80m CW Contest - 25th January 2023

Thank you to all those of you who took part in this 80m CW contest, and a special welcome to those stations who joined us for the first time. Congratulations to Nigel OE5TXF for the overall leading score, also to Allan SM5CSS leading the Low Power section, and to Graham G4FNL heading the QRP category with 81 QSOs. Here on the edge of Europe, the noise-floor was low and conditions seemed quite good. Greg W1KM sent in a welcome log to prove what 80m was capable of while still daylight at his QTH. Our Bonus Stations were busy again. EI5G (at EI7GY) had 66 QSOs and G5GEI (at G3WPH) had 86 QSOs. Quite a few QSOs were lost by some stations because of bad locators in the log. It is useful to have a Locator Map of Europe on your shack wall. This will help you remember that JO02 is in the East of England, but IO02 is a "Wet Square" in the Atlantic. Don't forget to tell your radio friends (and your family) about the UK/EI DX CW Contest on 29/30 April 2023. 73 Tim G4FJK helped by EI5DI, GM3WOJ, G4WQI and M0HDF

	Call	Pwr	Grid	Raw	Dupe	Bust	NIL	Good	Bonus		Total	-- Best DX --
				QSOs				QSOs	Stns		Pts	Call	Km

1	OE5TXF *	H	JN78BD	83	0	1	0	82	G	EI	396	EI5KF	1658
2	GM2V	H	IO77WS	82	2	0	0	80	G	EI	387	W1KM	4907
3	I2IFT *	H	JN45UQ	82	1	1	0	80	G		368	GM4JYB	1674
4	SM5CSS	L	JO89LS	68	0	0	0	68	G	EI	358	EI2KA	1879
5	DK2FG *	L	JO41OR	92	1	1	0	90	G	EI	355	EI5KF	1201
6	SN1T *	H	JO84ML	88	0	4	0	84	G	EI	351	EI5KF	1695
7	E77EA *	L	JN84OU	63	1	0	0	62			338	GM2V	2052
8	GM3A	L	IO87UD	81	1	1	0	79			317	SP8HWM	1712
9	S57KM *	L	JN76HD	65	0	1	0	64	G	EI	313	GM4JYB	1826
10	GW4J *	H	IO73WF	81	0	0	0	81	G	EI	311	W1KM	5003
11	SD1A	H	JO97DP	65	0	0	1	64	G		297	EI5KF	1792
12	DM5GG *	H	JO61UE	65	0	1	1	63	G	EI	287	EI5KF	1520
13	SN5J *	L	KO02ML	62	0	2	0	60	G	EI	281	EI5KF	1985
14	DM6EE *	L	JO52KJ	75	1	1	0	73	G	EI	274	OX3XR	3721
15	G4FJK *	H	IO80EW	70	1	0	0	69	G	EI	269	SN5J	1706
16	PG7V *	L	JO22UI	83	0	0	0	83	G	EI	269	E77EA	1187
17	G4ENZ *	L	IO81VV	76	0	0	0	76	G	EI	267	SP8HWM	1704
18	OK2NO	L	JN89PW	67	0	3	0	64	G	EI	267	EI2KA	1881
19	G4A	L	IO91LC	78	0	0	0	78	G	EI	266	SP8HWM	1641
20	EI5KF	H	IO52UG	64	0	1	0	63			264	SP8HWM	2108
21	G3PJT *	L	JO02AE	88	0	2	1	85	G	EI	264	OH2EA	1775
22	SO3O	H	JO92FF	67	1	4	1	61			262	EI2KA	1907
23	DL4MFM *	L	JO42AI	69	0	0	0	69	G	EI	254	EI5KF	1112
24	SM5S	L	JO89FK	54	1	0	0	53	G		253	EI8CE	1675
25	SD6F *	L	JO57XP	67	1	2	0	64			253	EI2KA	1531
26	G4FNL *	Q	IO90XU	81	0	2	0	79	G	EI	250	OH2EA	1878
27	MM1E	H	IO85AU	68	0	2	0	66	G	EI	249	SP8HWM	1798
28	DL8TG *	L	JO52IJ	68	0	0	0	68	G	EI	247	OX3XR	3713
29	DL5JQ *	L	JO31CQ	75	1	2	0	72	G	EI	240	SP8HWM	1132
30	G3RWF	H	JO01OG	79	0	0	0	79	G		240	SP8HWM	1483
31	G4RGK *	L	IO91ON	67	0	1	0	66	G	EI	236	E77EA	1526
32	DL4ME *	L	JO50JR	65	0	0	2	63	G	EI	234	EI8CE	1270
33	SP8HWM	L	KO11HS	51	2	1	0	48	G		233	EI5KF	2108
34	GM4OSS	L	IO75RQ	68	0	2	0	66	G	EI	227	E77EA	1950
35	M5D	L	JO01HT	73	1	1	0	71	G	EI	226	SP8HWM	1513
36	G3SWC	L	IO91SC	71	2	0	1	68	G	EI	219	SO4P	1470
37	OK1OA	L	JO70HC	63	2	4	0	57	G	EI	216	GM2V	1491
38	G3KNU	L	IO93QN	64	1	0	0	63	G	EI	211	E77EA	1614
39	GM4JYB	L	IO88JM	58	0	4	0	54	G	EI	209	S57KM	1826
40	EI8CE	L	IO62HI	53	0	3	0	50	G	EI	205	SP8HWM	2045
41	M4N *	L	IO81XX	72	1	2	0	69			203	SP8HWM	1691
42	PC4H *	H	JO22IH	76	0	3	0	73	G		197	E77EA	1237
43	SO4P *	L	KO03JS	44	0	0	0	44	G		194	EI5KF	1946
44	SN2S *	L	JO94GI	42	0	0	0	42	G		190	EI5KF	1793
45	G5C	L	IO93NL	63	1	1	0	61	G		187	SP8HWM	1596
46	SC6O	L	JO68VI	52	0	3	0	49			183	EI5KF	1548
47	G4EBK	L	IO93WN	67	0	3	0	64	G		181	E77EA	1585
48	OK2QA	H	JN89UN	51	0	2	0	49	G		178	EI5KF	1843
49	PC1PM *	L	JO23WF	63	0	1	0	62	G		175	E77EA	1244
50	M5G	L	IO92JO	64	0	4	0	60	G	EI	175	SP8HWM	1626
51	M8A	Q	IO92AL	54	1	1	0	52	G	EI	173	SN5J	1557
52	G4BRK *	L	IO91HP	54	0	1	0	53	G	EI	172	E77EA	1567
53	DL1EAR	L	JO31LC	51	0	1	0	50			171	EI2KA	1138
54	G3OGP	L	IO91SB	49	1	0	0	48	G	EI	170	SP8HWM	1602
55	SP2XX	H	JO94HJ	65	0	8	0	57			161	EI8CE	1736
56	PA3AAV *	H	JO22LM	78	0	9	0	69	G	EI	160	E77EA	1238
57	M7R *	Q	IO92IP	54	0	1	0	53	G	EI	160	E77EA	1606
58	G6C	Q	IO70KI	43	0	0	0	43	G		159	SP8HWM	1941
59	EI7CC	L	IO63WG	40	0	0	0	40	G	EI	158	SN5J	1821
60	DF5EN *	L	JO31ML	41	0	0	0	41	G	EI	154	SP8HWM	1078
61	G8CW	L	JO01KS	56	0	1	0	55			153	SP8HWM	1496
62	G4BYE	L	IO91VW	46	1	1	0	44	G	EI	148	SN5J	1449
63	DL5KUD	L	JO64RN	37	0	0	0	37	G		138	G4FJK	1219
64	G3VYI	L	IO91OF	45	0	2	0	43	G	EI	135	E77EA	1513
65	PA5KT *	H	JO11WL	53	0	2	0	51			133	SP8HWM	1296
66	G4DBW *	Q	JO01NI	47	1	1	1	44	G	EI	132	E77EA	1395
67	PA3DBS	L	JO21DM	55	1	2	0	52			130	SM5CSS	1213
68	OZ3TQ	L	JO55HK	29	0	0	0	29	G	EI	127	E77EA	1267
69	SA1CCQ	H	JO97FM	41	0	4	1	36			126	EI2KA	1907
70	G3XTZ	L	IO91SK	42	0	0	0	42	G	EI	123	SO3O	1304
71	G3ZBU	Q	IO91UB	37	0	0	1	36	G	EI	121	OK2NO	1251
72	SP7OGP	L	KO01AM	40	0	1	0	39			116	EI5KF	1941
73	M0DCG	L	IO83QJ	29	0	0	0	29	G	EI	97	E77EA	1723
74	GD4RFZ	L	IO74OB	31	0	1	2	28	G	EI	97	E77EA	1884
75	G4CMY	L	IO81UR	27	0	0	0	27	G		85	SA1CCQ	1480
76	G4DZL	L	IO92IS	22	0	0	0	22	G	EI	78	SO3O	1339
77	M3E	Q	JO01BV	32	0	1	0	31			78	SN5J	1428
78	EI2KA	L	IO51HM	18	1	1	0	16			73	SO3O	1907
79	G3TJE	L	IO81MI	30	0	1	0	29			70	E77EA	1660
80	EI8KN	L	IO62IE	17	0	0	1	16	G	EI	64	DL1REM	997
81	G4PDF *	L	IO93VH	20	0	1	0	19	G	EI	64	S57KM	1330
82	EI5DI	L	IO63VG	14	0	0	0	14	G	EI	62	SO3O	1662
83	G2AA	L	IO92KO	21	0	2	1	18	G	EI	58	SM5CSS	1371
84	M3M	Q	IO70JB	23	0	1	0	22			57	SN1T	1589
85	GM4M	Q	IO75XT	21	0	1	0	20	G		57	SO3O	1521
86	2E0OBO *	L	JO02QP	19	0	1	0	18	G		56	SM5CSS	1246
87	M0HWT *	L	IO81WU	28	0	2	0	26			54	E77EA	1624
88	W1KM *	H	FN41NP	6	0	0	1	5			50	DL1REM	5777
89	G0JOS	L	IO91UJ	21	0	1	0	20		EI	49	SP2XX	1312
90	GM0TKB	L	IO88IP	16	0	2	0	14			45	OK2NAJ	1660
91	G5BBL	Q	IO81VH	21	0	2	0	19	G		44	SD1A	1497
92	G0OOD	L	JO02PP	22	0	4	0	18	G		37	SP8HWM	1457
93	PA0RBA	L	JO22RB	41	0	10	0	31		EI	36	SM5CSS	1117
94	G4TPJ	Q	JO01DE	8	0	0	2	6		EI	29	GM3A	685
95	G4ZZL *	L	JO01JT	15	0	2	0	13	G		27	SC6O	1102
96	PA9CW *	L	JO21KP	31	0	7	0	24			23	SN5J	1111

Soapbox

Condx not favourable for my mobile Diamond whip! -- 2E0OBO Very hard with my small coil loaded 80m dipole. Struggled with neighborhood local QRM. A nasty generator pump motor or whatever. -- DF5EN Good activity, good ears on the other site, thanks for alls qsos. 73 and bcnu in the next one Klaus DL8TG -- DL8TG Very good conditions, good signals, thank you for all the QSOs. Highlight was OX3XR! -- DM6EE Sorry for poor operating tonight--my CW is still weak but I'm working on it. Great to finally get the master, SM5CSS, in my CW log. SD worked great for me as usual--straightforward and reliable. Thanks Ei5DI. -- EI2KA Good condx and activity -- EI8CE Good fun -- EI8KN Good conditions for a change. -- G3KNU Contacts a bit thin on the ground Good condx -- G3RWF Very poor conditions at start. -- G3XTZ FAIR CONDX. -- G3ZBU Why does the QSB always take out the same part of a repeated locator? Lots of QSB tonight but good fun. -- G4BRK Keyer probs at start -- G4RGK Enjoyable contest for a small qrp homebrew uSDX transceiver 4W output. -- G5BBL SD used for logging SCP and CHF really helpful -- G6C Good low noise condx - lots of new stations. Found Ei5G with only 4 mins left. 73 Chris -- GM2V Great to be back in this contest. -- GM3A Only a couple of Irish tonight. Thanks all for fun contest. -- GM4JYB Slow start for me on qrp -- GM4M Forgot how to turn off the cluster and autofill in DXlog...;-) -- GW4J QRP from Cornwall very few G some EIGM but mainly EU stations. All in run mode. -- M3M Most good condx - thanks for the QSOs. -- M4N Good activity level but high local noise due to local QRM. Thanks very much for all QSOs and hope see you all again on the next one. Till then 73 I use EI5DIs SD for my contest logging -- M5G Variable conditions tonight - stations that were just above the noise early on were FB sigs later, and also vice versa. -- M7R I ALWAYS USE SD LOG -- OZ3TQ Started with QRP, but no succes. So I changed it to 50 W output. Worked much better. 73 - Tonnie - PA9CW -- PA9CW Good conditions and very little QRM and QRN this evening! Tnx for all QSOs de Allan -- SM5CSS 73 de SM5SIC Göran -- SM5S Nice contest! -- SN2S

Some Statistics

Long distance QSOs (Over 2000 km) W1KM in FN41NP worked DL1REM in JO32PC at distance of 5777 km W1KM in FN41NP worked F5IN in JN18DD at distance of 5605 km W1KM in FN41NP worked G3RWF in JO01OG at distance of 5413 km W1KM in FN41NP worked M4T in IO82RJ at distance of 5129 km GW4J in IO73WF worked W1KM in FN41NP at distance of 5003 km GM2V in IO77WS worked W1KM in FN41NP at distance of 4907 km DM6EE in JO52KJ worked OX3XR in GP44DE at distance of 3721 km DL8TG in JO52IJ worked OX3XR in GP44DE at distance of 3713 km EI5KF in IO52UG worked SP8HWM in KO11HS at distance of 2108 km E77EA in JN84OU worked GM2V in IO77WS at distance of 2052 km EI8CE in IO62HI worked SP8HWM in KO11HS at distance of 2045 km E77EA in JN84OU worked EI5KF in IO52UG at distance of 2041 km