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80m SSB Contest - 3rd January 2024

A Happy New Year to you all!! Thanks for entering the first contest of 2024 - this 2023/24 series finishes in April 2024. The final results are listed below. Sandi S57KM is overall winner in the Low Power category. Per SE2P was second overall and the leading High Power entrant. Ger MW7FON is leading scorer of two in the QRP section. The leading UK station was Chris GM2V, third overall, and top EI station was Mark EI6JK, fourth overall. We are now half-way through the 2023/24 series (seven contests completed, seven to go). There has been a change at the top of the series league table. Sandi S57KM is the leader, just ahead of Brian GM4JYB. Third is Mark EI6JK, fourth is Adam M5G, and fifth Allan SM5CSS. The rest of the top ten are Ivo 9A1AA, Bryn G3SWC, Ted SN1T, Tom G4BYE and Stew GW4J. See the full "League Table" feature under the 80m Contests pull-down tab. We welcome several first time entrants, including Adel CT1AL, the first Portuguese entrant for several years. We hope that you will all join us again. Thanks to Aidan EI8CE for operating the bonus station EI5G and to Paul G4PVM for operating the bonus station G5GEI. Apologies for the late publication of the results. This happened because of some issues arising when our site was moved to a new server. UBN files have been emailed to all entrants. The next contest in this series will be on CW on Wednesday 24th January 2024. The next SSB contest will be on Wednesday 7th February 2024. 73 from the Adjudicator - Paul G4PVM (with Tim G4FJK and Chris GM3WOJ)

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

1	S57KM *	L	JN76HD	62	0	0	0	62	G	EI	339	SE2P	2080
2	SE2P *	H	KP04HM	41	0	0	0	41	G	EI	293	CT1AL	3148
3	GM2V	H	IO77WS	75	0	1	0	74		EI	276	SV6HEF	2761
4	EI6JK *	H	IO53TS	72	0	1	0	71	G	EI	245	SQ8MK	2074
5	G8X *	H	IO80EW	73	1	0	0	72	G	EI	218	LY9A	1956
6	DK5DQ	L	JO31QH	43	0	0	0	43	G	EI	186	LY9A	1267
7	G3RWF	H	JO01OG	63	0	1	0	62	G	EI	179	SE2P	1857
8	EI5KG *	H	IO62SH	62	0	1	0	61	G	EI	170	SE2P	2060
9	G3SWC	L	IO91SC	58	0	0	0	58	G	EI	168	SE2P	1932
10	EI8KN	L	IO62IE	57	0	2	0	55	G	EI	160	LY9A	2122
11	M5G	L	IO92JO	53	0	0	0	53	G	EI	157	LY9A	1725
12	SM5CSS	L	JO89LS	25	0	0	0	25	G	EI	150	EI8KN	1720
13	EI2KA	L	IO51HM	38	0	0	0	38	G	EI	147	SE2P	2254
14	DM6EE	L	JO52KJ	38	0	1	1	36		EI	135	SE2P	1463
15	G0SKA *	H	IO91OQ	43	0	0	0	43	G	EI	127	LY9A	1743
16	MI4I *	L	IO64SJ	40	0	0	2	38	G	EI	124	S57KM	1751
17	LY9A	L	KO26JE	29	0	3	0	26			118	EI8KN	2122
18	GI0AZB	H	IO64MW	33	0	0	0	33	G		112	SE2P	1861
19	G3XTZ	L	IO91SK	49	0	2	0	47			111	UV2IP	2701
20	G6C	L	IO70KI	35	0	0	0	35	G	EI	111	SE2P	2181
21	GM4JYB	L	IO88JM	23	0	0	0	23	G	EI	109	S57KM	1826
22	EI9KA *	L	IO53HA	30	0	1	0	29	G	EI	108	SE2P	2126
23	PE1EWR *	L	JO11SL	29	0	1	0	28	G	EI	108	LY9A	1487
24	DF5EN *	L	JO31ML	29	0	1	1	27	G	EI	107	SE2P	1653
25	G4BYE	L	IO91VW	39	0	2	0	37	G	EI	105	SE2P	1845
26	M5M	L	IO91HP	32	0	0	0	32	G	EI	105	SE2P	1916
27	MW0DX	H	IO71OT	57	0	6	0	51			102	SV6HHF	2390
28	G2AA	L	IO92KO	33	0	0	0	33		EI	94	SE2P	1818
29	EI7GY	H	IO63WG	28	0	0	0	28	G	EI	92	S57KM	1685
30	EI2IAB	L	IO63NK	48	0	5	0	43	G	EI	89	SE2P	1981
31	M0XAC *	H	IO81VU	25	0	0	0	25	G	EI	89	SE2P	1928
32	G0HGH *	L	IO92WS	32	0	3	0	29	G	EI	83	SE2P	1764
33	G4DZL	L	IO92IS	27	0	0	0	27	G	EI	82	S57KM	1365
34	EI3ENB	L	IO62JH	29	0	1	0	28		EI	80	SE2P	2092
35	2E0IGD	L	IO93KF	24	0	1	0	23	G	EI	80	SE2P	1761
36	G3R	L	IO83SJ	23	0	0	0	23	G	EI	79	SE2P	1799
37	MW7FON	Q	IO73VC	33	0	2	0	31		EI	71	SE2P	1896
38	DL8TG *	L	JO52IJ	15	0	0	0	15		EI	68	SE2P	1466
39	M4N	L	IO81XX	20	0	1	0	19	G	EI	64	LY9A	1806
40	GM1X	L	IO67IN	13	0	0	0	13		EI	63	S57KM	1958
41	G3PLE	L	IO70JB	16	0	0	0	16	G	EI	61	LY9A	2102
42	SQ8MK	L	KO11CJ	9	0	0	0	9		EI	53	EI6JK	2074
43	GM0TKB	L	IO88IP	20	0	3	0	17		EI	53	S57KM	1839
44	EI7INB	L	IO52MN	20	0	1	0	19		EI	52	S57KM	1846
45	G0AKF	L	IO83TH	12	0	0	0	12	G	EI	52	S57KM	1457
46	MM0MUN	L	IO87WD	12	0	0	0	12		EI	48	DK5DQ	896
47	G0SDM *	L	IO92VV	19	0	1	0	18		EI	46	LY9A	1650
48	G6UBM	L	JO01CE	16	0	0	0	16	G		46	S57KM	1198
49	CT1AL *	H	IN60VU	7	0	0	0	7		EI	44	SE2P	3148
50	LB2WD	L	JO48HM	10	0	0	1	9		EI	43	S57KM	1436
51	M7DQO	L	IO92XR	17	0	2	0	15		EI	41	LY9A	1647
52	EI7CC	L	IO63WG	13	0	0	0	13		EI	39	SE2P	1963
53	GW7BZR	L	IO73UF	13	0	0	0	13		EI	36	GM2V	506
54	M0VQP *	L	IO92NG	10	0	0	0	10		EI	36	S57KM	1315
55	M1CJE	L	IO91CJ	16	0	1	1	14		EI	36	SE2P	1955
56	PE1MCF	L	JO32CQ	13	0	2	0	11		EI	36	LY9A	1263
57	G3KNU	L	IO93QN	14	0	2	0	12		EI	35	SE2P	1711
58	G6NLW	L	IO93CQ	14	0	1	0	13		EI	31	S57KM	1442
59	EA6/GM3ZDH *	L	JM19NO	5	0	0	0	5		EI	30	GM2V	2087
60	GM9C	L	IO75TO	5	0	0	0	5		EI	27	G3RWF	608
61	SQ9PUW	L	JN99QV	9	0	0	0	9			26	GM2V	1766
62	M0MPM	L	IO91LJ	5	0	0	0	5		EI	21	GM2V	737
63	PE2D	Q	JO22KJ	7	0	1	0	6		EI	19	EI6JK	900
64	M0LDC *	L	IO91VV	6	0	1	0	5			5	EI6JK	588
65	SE5W *	L	JP80NF	2	0	0	0	2			4	G8X	1657
66	EI6GMB	L	IO52NW	10	0	4	0	6			0	EI7GY	188

Soapbox

Soapbox comments from UKEICC 80m SSB contest using 6 char grids on 03/01/2024 HNY to all. Some QSB, QRM/QRN. Yet still some good contacts made. Thank you all, 73, de Gary -- 2E0IGD Very difficult for me. I have a bad 80m antenna that has a bad SWR in the upper SSB range. And I'm a bad SSB Op. That's why I don't call CQ. -- DF5EN Best QRB is 1263km for LY9A at KO26JE -- DK5DQ Thanks for nice contacts, 73 and HNY -- DL8TG Happy new year, thank you for the QSOs! -- DM6EE happy new year to all -- EI2IAB Best QRB is 2067km for SQ8MK at KO11CJ. Conditions quite good , aurora sounding at times ,manage to get low signals too. Happy New Year to all ,peaceful and healthy 2024.GoOd dx de EI6JK -- EI6JK Very noisy at the start some improvement after 30 mins -- EI7GY 25 watts sd logging -- EI7INB Reasonably busy. An enjoyable session. -- EI8KN IC 7610 EFHW LONG WIRE -- G0AKF Never worked so many EWIs. Conditions very poor -- G3PLE Some v persistent DQRM Good fun as usual -- G3RWF ONLY RUNNING 10W DK CONTEST ON IN FIRST PART -- G6UBM Noisy band this evening but lots of EU activity. -- G8X Happy New Year! Some long skip tonight. Worked a lot of new stations. Tnx QSOs - 73 Chris -- GM2V Conditions not good tonight. Not helped by earwax in left ear. Fun but hard work. Thanks and happy new year to all. -- GM4JYB VERY NOISY -- GW7BZR Noisy band. -- M0XAC First time for ages in SSB contest. Very polite crowd indeed. Flex6400 to Doublet. -- M4N Had antenna damage in the storms so not great but made a good few QSOs so very happy and especially nice to work stations regular and new. Thanks all worked for the QSOs and see you on the next session. I use EI5DI's SD for my contest logging. -- M5G Think I prefer the CW ones, SSB much harder to make QSOs and very few CQ replies. High noise level here for the last month or so. -- M5M Hard Going not many stations on -- MW7FON Not as crowded as expected. -- PE1EWR TS-590SG, dipole@8m, Windom@10m Great propagations to UK/EI this evening. Happy New Year!!! 73, Sandi -- S57KM Happy New Year to all de Allan -- SM5CSS

Some Statistics

Statistics for UKEICC 80m SSB contest using 6 character grids on 03/01/2024 Total QSOs: 1108 Cross Checked QSOs: 801 Long distance QSOs (Over 2500 km) SE2P in KP04HM worked CT1AL in IN60VU at distance of 3148 km GM2V in IO77WS worked SV6HEF in KM09MB at distance of 2761 km G3XTZ in IO91SK worked UV2IP in KN88SU at distance of 2701 km