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80m CW Contest - 24th September 2025

Thanks for taking part in the first 80m CW contest of the 2025/26 season. Our apologies to those who searched without success for the UK bonus station. Due to an administrative error by our team, G5GEI was not QRV. Our intention is to have both bonus stations active in all contests. Conditions were poor for most entrants and, at least from Ireland, 100W output didn't make it very far into continental Europe. There were only three QSOs recorded at a distance over 2500km. Several logfiles were received from contesters taking part in a UKEICC 80m contest for the first time. We hope you enjoyed the contest and will join us again very soon. Finalised results are shown below. Congratulations to Gyula HG1G on winning overall and the HP category, and to Allan SM5CSS in second place overall and the leading LP entry. The leading QRP entry was G3P Mike (G3WPH) who scored 20th overall and, with 5W, worked a station at over 1600km. There were eight other QRP entries in this contest and they logged on average 35.5 QSOs--an impressive result. The Teams Competitions page now shows the three teams that have so far been registered for the Teams Competition for 2025/26. This overlay offers a fun addition to the UKEICC 80m contest series. Anyone--not just those in a formal club or contest team--can enter this as a team. Find up to three other ops to join you and, once registered, you will find yourself drawn to the Teams Competition results as much as the individual results. You have until the end of November to register your team of up to four members. Full details are in the 80m rules, Section 7.3. Thanks to Tim EI2KA for activating the Ei5G Bonus station. The next contest is on Wednesday, 1 October 2025 on SSB. Hope to hear you then. 73 from the UKEICC adjudication team. (Ei2KA, G4FJK, G4PVM, GW0ETF)

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

1	HG1G *	H	JN86DV	65	0	1	1	63			320	EI6JK	1904
2	SM5CSS	L	JO89LS	53	0	0	0	53			286	EI5KF	1768
3	SF6W	L	JO68RP	59	0	1	0	58		EI	281	UT2II	1749
4	EI6JK *	H	IO53TS	56	0	0	0	56		EI	281	UT2II	2842
5	SN1T *	L	JO84ML	59	0	0	0	59		EI	280	EI5G	1794
6	DM6EE *	L	JO52KJ	64	0	0	0	64		EI	268	UT2II	1547
7	DK2FG *	L	JO41OR	68	0	0	1	67		EI	267	UT2II	1640
8	SC6O	L	JO68VI	53	0	1	0	52			245	EI6JK	1465
9	S57KM	L	JN76HD	50	0	0	0	50			242	EI6JK	1845
10	SP8HWM	L	KO11HS	49	0	1	0	48			240	EI6JK	2088
11	G4RCG *	H	IO93FQ	70	0	0	1	69		EI	236	SP8HWM	1639
12	DM5GG *	H	JO61UE	58	0	1	0	57		EI	230	EI5G	1602
13	SN7J	L	JO91QW	49	0	1	0	48		EI	225	EI5G	1975
14	GI5I *	H	IO74DP	64	1	2	0	61			222	SP8HWM	1907
15	G8X *	L	IO80EW	63	1	1	0	61		EI	221	SP8HWM	1822
16	EI5KF	H	IO52UG	58	0	3	0	55			218	SN7J	1885
17	GM3A	L	IO87UD	54	0	2	0	52		EI	214	S51Z	1728
18	OK2NAJ *	L	JN89PR	47	0	0	0	47			211	EI6JK	1818
19	G3SWC	L	IO91SC	59	0	0	0	59		EI	203	SP8HWM	1601
20	G3P *	Q	IO91NL	60	0	0	0	60		EI	203	SP8HWM	1621
21	M8M *	L	JO02ME	62	1	0	1	60		EI	201	SP8HWM	1479
22	OK2NO	L	JN89PW	52	0	2	0	50			200	EI6JK	1809
23	M4N *	L	IO81XX	59	1	0	0	58		EI	197	SP8HWM	1691
24	DL2OM	H	JO30SN	58	0	2	0	56		EI	192	EI5G	1189
25	S54A *	L	JN76GB	42	0	1	0	41			190	EI6JK	1845
26	G4DBW	L	JO01NI	57	0	0	0	57		EI	189	SP8HWM	1487
27	G6M	L	IO93SR	61	1	0	1	59		EI	187	SP8HWM	1567
28	DL6KVA *	H	JO64BC	53	0	2	0	51			187	UT2II	1536
29	G4ERW *	Q	JO01GB	53	0	0	1	52		EI	185	UT2II	2232
30	GM4JYB	L	IO88JM	39	0	0	0	39		EI	184	HG1G	1835
31	OZ3TQ	L	JO55HK	50	0	2	0	48		EI	183	UT2II	1688
32	G4ZFE *	Q	IO91PK	52	0	0	0	52		EI	181	SP8HWM	1611
33	G3RWF	H	JO01OG	56	0	1	0	55		EI	180	SP8HWM	1483
34	G4RGK *	L	IO91NO	56	0	2	0	54		EI	180	SP8HWM	1619
35	2E0OBO *	L	JO02QP	54	0	0	1	53		EI	178	SP8HWM	1451
36	M3E	L	JO02CB	51	1	0	0	50		EI	175	SP8HWM	1537
37	EI5KG *	H	IO62SH	53	0	4	0	49		EI	172	UT2II	2715
38	PA2DK *	L	JO21IX	59	0	0	0	59			171	UT2II	1951
39	G4BYE	L	IO91VW	48	0	0	0	48		EI	165	SP5ES	1455
40	G5C	L	IO93NL	51	0	1	0	50		EI	165	SP8HWM	1596
41	DL5XL *	H	JO43GI	44	0	0	0	44			162	EI6JK	1120
42	UT2II *	L	KN56FQ	27	0	0	3	24			157	EI6JK	2842
43	SO3O	L	JO92FF	43	0	4	0	39			153	EI5KF	1817
44	GW4J	Q	IO73WF	46	0	0	0	46		EI	147	HG1G	1616
45	G2O	L	IO92VA	52	0	3	0	49		EI	146	SM5CSS	1372
46	EI7GY	H	IO63WG	41	0	0	0	41		EI	141	HG1G	1745
47	PA5WT *	L	JO22HG	57	1	3	0	53			134	SP8HWM	1234
48	G3OGP	Q	IO91SB	49	1	2	0	46		EI	133	SP8HWM	1602
49	OK2QA *	H	JN89UN	37	0	1	0	36			133	EI5KF	1843
50	G7D	Q	IO91SK	41	0	0	0	41		EI	130	SM5CSS	1430
51	G3ZBU	L	IO91UB	39	0	0	0	39		EI	126	SO3O	1301
52	LB2WD	L	JO48HM	35	0	1	0	34			126	S57KM	1436
53	S51Z	Q	JN76PA	26	0	0	0	26			114	EI5KF	1846
54	G3G *	L	JO02ME	56	0	8	0	48		EI	106	SP8HWM	1479
55	G4DZL	L	IO92IS	31	0	0	0	31		EI	106	SP8HWM	1630
56	SD6F *	L	JO57XP	23	0	0	0	23			104	EI8KN	1370
57	2E0YEM	L	IO81OJ	37	0	2	0	35		EI	95	SN7J	1529
58	DG0KS	H	JO64AD	31	0	1	0	30			94	EI5KF	1370
59	G4EUW *	L	JO01MT	37	0	3	1	33			85	SM5CSS	1330
60	DO2XU	L	JO43PO	32	1	2	0	29			75	EI6JK	1165
61	M9M	L	IO83RQ	35	0	4	0	31			70	SP8HWM	1705
62	EI8KN	H	IO62IE	23	1	2	1	19		EI	63	SF6W	1490
63	G0JOS	L	IO91UJ	19	0	0	0	19		EI	58	HG1G	1306
64	F6KRK *	Q	JN18AS	15	0	1	0	14			33	SO3O	1224
65	G4ZZL *	L	JO01JT	19	0	2	0	17			31	SM5CSS	1341
66	M0KNG *	L	JO01EO	13	0	2	0	11		EI	24	EI5G	676
67	DR6W	H	JN69EI	13	0	3	0	10			15	GM3A	1304
68	SP5ES	L	KO02NL	21	0	5	0	16			13	EI5KF	1990
69	EI2IAB	L	IO63NK	2	0	0	0	2			5	G7D	490
70	IU4BNS	Q	JN54HR	2	0	0	0	2			4	HG1G	502

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RX/TX: ICOM 7700 Ant: 5Band HyEndFed Length:23 meter -- DG0KS Best QRB is 1597km for EI5G at IO51HM -- DM5GG Good conds, not to many stations, the G special station was not heard at all. -- DM6EE Best QRB is 2081km for UT2II at KN88VA -- DO2XU First time trying CW. Tks for patients :) -- EI2IAB Not a lot of fun tonight. It was difficult to copy most stations further than middle EU and some stations even closer disapeared on me. Apologies to the last station calling that was sending LOC?--I couldn't get your call sign. Thanks for QSOs de Ei2KA -- EI5G Nice conditions tonight. 73 all. -- EI5KF Not busy tonight ,band a bit noisey de Mark -- EI6JK Good signals from continental Europe tonight -- EI7GY Very enjoyable. Best QRB is 1746km for S03O at JO92FF. -- EI8KN Best QRB is 1221km for SO3O at JO92FF -- F6KRK A few gremlins to start with - enjoyable evening. -- G2O Good conditions. SD V22.15 -- G3ZBU noisy condx tonight. low activity from EI -- G4DBW Before it gets more widespread, will participants please not use abbreviated numbers (N for 9, T for 0, E for 5 etc) in their locator, please. -- G4DZL Flex6400 + dipole @ 12m -- G4ERW Trying out a Singleloop near ground on receive to cut local noise. Surprised by how well it worked in very average conditions. -- G4EUW Slow going after the first 30mins stations were hard to find -- G4RCG Tough night for working deep EU from here. Still an enjoyable evening. -- G4ZFE I ran out of stations to work so good job it was only 1hr hi hi. Had fun and do like the 6 Character report. -- G6M Conditions seemed very good this evening so I ran at 5 Watts (7% on the IC-7300) for a first-time QRP attempt. Could not find G5GEI however. -- G7D Conditions good but could not find G5GEI. I had a problem with macros at start but soon sorted it out. Fun contest. Thanks all. -- GM4JYB Best QRB is 1924km for EI5G at IO51HM -- HG1G Best QRB is 1434km for S57KM at JN76HD -- LB2WD Best QRB is 1532km for SP8HWM at KO11HS -- M3E FLEX6400 to Doublet. Poor conditions tonight. But usual good fun. Thanks for organising. -- M4N Lots of gaps - run most of the time - more stations would be nice - I always enjoy using SD LOG -- OZ3TQ Best QRB is 1945km for UT2II at KN56FQ -- PA2DK 4W, DIPOLE -- S51Z Bad conds low activity no bonus stns heard 73 de Allan -- SM5CSS Best QRB is 1788km for EI5G at IO51HM -- SN1T FTdx10-80 Watts Ant. Double Bazooka vy 73! from Poland Mark SP7JYM -- SN7J Best QRB is 1811km for EI5KF at IO52UG -- SO3O

Some Statistics

Long distance QSOs (Over 2500 km) EI6JK in IO53TS worked UT2II in KN56FQ at distance of 2842 km EI5KG in IO62SH worked UT2II in KN56FQ at distance of 2715 km GI5I in IO74DP worked UT2II in KN56FG at distance of 2672 km