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80m CW Contest - 30th October 2024

Thanks for taking part in the second last UKEICC 80m CW contest of 2024. Conditions were generally good, with unusually low band noise. Welcome to some new entrants. The *Finalised* Results of this contest are online below, and UBN files have been emailed to all entrants. Congratulations to all the section winners (use the Tabs below to look at the different section results). Congratulations to Kare SE5T (SM5GRD) as overall winner, Sandi S57KM in second place and Allan SM5CSS in third place. Only 12 points separated these three entrants. Congratulations to Tim G8X (G4FJK) on being the leading UK/EI station, only three points ahead of Brian GM4JYB in second place! Bonus stations - thanks to Joe EI7GY for activating Ei5G and to Chris GM3WOJ for activating GM5GEI. The next contest in this 80m series is at 2000z on Wednesday 6th November - on SSB. The next CW contest is on November 27th, then there are no UKEICC contests in December, then the series restarts in January 2025. 73 from the Adjudication team - Chris GM3WOJ, Tim G4FJK, Paul G4PVM, Stew GW0ETF.

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

1	SE5T *	L	JO89PO	59	0	0	0	59	G	EI	322	EI8CE	1726
2	S57KM *	L	JN76HD	57	0	0	0	57	G	EI	316	GM4JYB	1826
3	SM5CSS	L	JO89LS	57	0	0	0	57	G	EI	310	EI8CE	1713
4	SP8HWM	L	KO11HS	49	0	0	0	49	G	EI	303	EI8CE	2045
5	SN1T *	H	JO84ML	65	0	2	0	63	G	EI	286	EI9KA	1741
6	LY7T *	H	KO05WV	69	0	5	1	63			281	EI9KA	2035
7	G8X *	H	IO80EW	81	2	0	0	79	G	EI	268	SP8HWM	1822
8	GM4JYB	L	IO88JM	57	0	0	0	57	G	EI	265	S57KM	1826
9	DL2OM	H	JO30SN	74	0	1	0	73	G		250	UR7MZ	2248
10	DM6EE *	L	JO52KJ	73	1	2	0	70	G	EI	249	UR7MZ	2012
11	G4RCG *	H	IO93FQ	81	0	0	0	81	G	EI	247	UR7MZ	2843
12	SD1A	L	JO97DP	51	0	0	0	51	G		246	EI8CE	1733
13	SC6O	L	JO68VI	61	0	2	0	59			244	EI8CE	1492
14	SO3O	L	JO92FF	58	0	2	1	55			240	EI8CE	1754
15	M4N *	L	IO81XX	78	0	1	0	77	G	EI	236	OH2EA	1900
16	M8M *	L	JO02ME	77	1	0	1	75	G	EI	230	SP8HWM	1479
17	DL5JQ *	H	JO31CQ	66	0	0	0	66	G	EI	222	SP8HWM	1132
18	DL1EAR *	L	JO31LC	64	1	1	0	62	G	EI	218	SM5CSS	1152
19	GW4J *	Q	IO73WF	62	0	0	0	62	G	EI	213	SP8HWM	1814
20	G3SWC	L	IO91SC	66	0	0	0	66	G	EI	212	SP8HWM	1601
21	GM3A	L	IO87UD	58	0	2	0	56	G	EI	211	SP8HWM	1712
22	GM4OSS	L	IO75RQ	53	0	0	0	53	G	EI	206	S57KM	1706
23	G3P *	Q	IO91NL	68	0	1	0	67	G	EI	201	OH2EA	1874
24	G4ZFE *	Q	IO91PK	62	0	0	0	62	G	EI	198	SP8HWM	1611
25	PC4H *	H	JO22IH	65	0	0	0	65	G	EI	195	SP8HWM	1228
26	G4ERW *	L	JO01GB	62	0	0	0	62	G	EI	194	SP8HWM	1533
27	EI8CE	L	IO62HI	56	1	3	0	52	G	EI	182	LY7T	1938
28	M5D	L	JO01HT	58	0	0	0	58	G	EI	178	OH2EA	1772
29	M3V	L	IO92JO	65	0	0	0	65	G	EI	178	LY7T	1542
30	G2O *	H	IO92VA	62	0	0	0	62	G		176	SP8HWM	1566
31	M4J *	H	JO02OD	63	0	1	0	62	G		176	SP8HWM	1468
32	G7D *	L	IO91SK	60	0	1	0	59	G		170	SP8HWM	1594
33	DL5KUD	L	JO64RN	36	0	1	0	35	G	EI	168	EI8CE	1401
34	M7R *	Q	IO92IP	59	1	0	0	58	G	EI	168	SP8HWM	1631
35	G4RCD	L	IO93GX	54	0	1	0	53	G	EI	167	SP8HWM	1633
36	G4DBW	L	JO01NI	62	0	0	0	62	G		166	SP8HWM	1487
37	G4BRK *	L	IO91HP	71	0	3	0	68	G		164	LY7T	1596
38	G4BYE	L	IO91VW	55	0	2	0	53	G	EI	163	SP8HWM	1568
39	G3VYI	L	IO91OF	56	0	2	0	54	G	EI	162	LY7T	1581
40	DL4ME *	L	JO50JR	35	0	0	0	35	G	EI	161	EI8CE	1270
41	EI5KG *	H	IO62SH	55	0	3	0	52	G	EI	160	UR7MZ	3189
42	G4C	L	JO01KS	57	0	0	0	57	G		160	OH2EA	1762
43	G5C	L	IO93NL	58	0	2	0	56	G	EI	159	SP8HWM	1596
44	G4SND	L	IO81RI	64	1	2	0	61			156	SP8HWM	1738
45	G4EBK	L	IO93WN	54	0	1	0	53	G		150	SP8HWM	1546
46	PA2TA *	L	JO21IU	52	0	1	0	51	G	EI	149	LY7T	1212
47	PC1PM *	L	JO23WF	54	0	1	0	53	G		148	SP8HWM	1147
48	G3OGP	L	IO91SB	58	0	5	0	53	G	EI	146	SP8HWM	1602
49	PA7F	L	JO22OC	61	0	2	0	59			145	SP8HWM	1196
50	G3KNU	L	IO93QN	50	0	1	0	49	G		143	SP8HWM	1579
51	PA3DBS	L	JO21DM	57	0	2	0	55		EI	137	SP8HWM	1266
52	G4RGK	L	IO91NO	48	0	0	0	48			125	SE5T	1443
53	OZ3TQ	L	JO55HK	45	0	5	1	39	G	EI	125	EI5KG	1173
54	G5UM	L	IO92HQ	48	0	0	1	47			123	SE5T	1386
55	SP3VT *	H	JO82LC	52	0	9	0	43	G	EI	121	EI5KG	1595
56	EI9KA	L	IO53HA	24	0	0	0	24	G	EI	112	LY7T	2035
57	G4DZL	L	IO92IS	36	0	1	0	35	G	EI	107	LY7T	1540
58	OK1TRJ *	L	JN79MD	25	0	0	0	25	G		105	GM5GEI	1586
59	G4EUW *	L	JO01MT	42	0	2	0	40	G		104	SE5T	1335
60	G4MEM *	L	IO94FA	26	0	0	0	26	G	EI	104	LY7T	1508
61	GM0TKB	L	IO88IP	22	0	0	0	22	G		100	SP8HWM	1805
62	PA3AAV *	H	JO22LM	31	0	1	1	29	G	EI	92	LY7T	1163
63	M0DCG	L	IO83QJ	29	0	2	0	27	G	EI	78	SP8HWM	1713
64	M0HWT *	L	IO81WU	18	0	0	0	18	G	EI	65	LY7T	1633
65	M0KNG	L	JO01EO	18	0	0	0	18	G	EI	60	GM5GEI	745
66	G2AA	L	IO92KO	20	0	0	0	20			55	SP8HWM	1620
67	DF5BX	H	JO42AE	14	0	2	0	12	G		37	EI8CE	1051
68	G0JOS	L	IO91UJ	20	0	1	0	19			34	DM6EE	776
69	G3R	L	IO83SJ	15	0	2	0	13	G		30	SO3O	1412
70	2E0JLZ	L	IO81VV	12	0	2	0	10			15	DM6EE	896
71	DH0GDS	L	JN48MG	5	0	1	0	4	G		13	GM5GEI	1374
72	DJ1OJ	L	JN58SE	21	0	20	0	1			0	SM5CSS	1337

Soapbox

Soapbox comments from UKEICC 80m CW contest using 6 char grids on 30/10/2024 1st time - problems with program -- DJ1OJ Best QRB is 1150km for SM5CSS at JO89LS -- DL1EAR Best QRB is 1129km for SP8HWM at KO11HS -- DL5JQ 80watts rf to 2x20m Dipole up 5 to 8 m. Pretty good propagation this time. Thanks to all for QSOs -- DL5KUD conds were good, nice signals, low qrm -- DM6EE vy gud condx used SD fb -- EI8CE thanks for another very enjoyable contest Using SD It's great! -- EI9KA ta fer contest gd fun -- G3VYI Condx seemed worse than the last one with lots of QSB. Good fun again. -- G4BRK Good fun as always -- G4DBW TS590SG + DIPOLE @ 12M -- G4ERW Enjoyable contest with good activity. Thanks for the QSOs. 73, Mark, G4RCD. -- G4RCD Nice steady session tonight, not too many EU stations tho -- G4RCG Forgot the time change to GMT so started half an hour late, only 75w out of radio. -- G4RGK Low band noise here! Thank you for copying my QRP sigs. -- G4ZFE Good conditions tonight but few Irish stations worked. Thanks all. -- GM4JYB Best QRB is 2991km for UR7MZ at KN98FC -- GM5GEI Thought conditions good -- M0DCG Working conditions not great here tonight but the show must go on. Thanks all for the QSOs. BCNU 73 de Adam -- M3V A lovely noise free band tonight. Signals were generally really good. See you in the next one. -- M5D IC-7300 | 90W | endfed 24 m long @ 8 m agl | 73! -- OK1TRJ I ALWAYS ENJOY USING SD LOG -- OZ3TQ Nice contest. I was busy! -- PA7F TS-590SG, Windom@15m Working remote. -- S57KM Best QRB is 1735km for EI9KA at IO53HA -- SN1T Best QRB is 1870km for G9KA at IO53HA -- SO3O

Some Statistics

Long distance QSOs (Over 2500 km) EI5KG in IO62SH worked UR7MZ in KN98FC at distance of 3189 km GM5GEI in IO77WS worked UR7MZ in KN98FC at distance of 3000 km G4RCG in IO93FQ worked UR7MZ in KN98FC at distance of 2843 km