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80m SSB Contest - 1st January 2025

A Happy New Year to you All Thank you for taking part in this first UKEI contest of 2025. The "Final" results are shown below. Conditions for short skip were not good, but signals on longer skip across Europe were better. High noise across the band affected a lot of stations, and activity was not good this time. 73 The UKEICC Team

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

1	EI8CE	H	IO62HI	55	0	2	0	53	G	EI	160	SQ8MK	2027
2	GM2V	H	IO77WS	38	0	0	0	38	G	EI	152	S57KM	1815
3	GI4SJQ	L	IO64SJ	37	0	0	0	37	G	EI	123	SQ8MK	1945
4	G3XYF	L	IO94TA	34	0	0	1	33	G	EI	117	SQ8MK	1548
5	MI3UIW	L	IO64NW	42	1	0	0	41			117	SQ8MK	1970
6	DF5EN *	H	JO31ML	22	0	0	0	22	G	EI	110	EI9FVB	1083
7	S57KM *	L	JN76HD	13	0	0	0	13	G	EI	102	GM2V	1815
8	EI9FVB *	H	IO51QV	31	0	2	0	29	G	EI	99	SQ8MK	2120
9	GM0TKB	L	IO88IP	23	0	0	0	23	G	EI	99	DF5EN	1034
10	EI7PRC	L	IO52TA	40	0	2	0	38			97	SQ8MK	2100
11	GM4JYB	L	IO88JM	23	0	0	0	23	G	EI	97	DF5EN	1020
12	EI3ENB	L	IO62JH	36	0	1	0	35		EI	95	SQ8MK	2016
13	G3SWC	L	IO91SC	26	0	0	0	26	G	EI	93	DK4WW	1004
14	G3TKF *	L	IO81RI	33	0	0	0	33	G		90	S57KM	1385
15	G4BYE	L	IO91VW	25	0	1	0	24	G	EI	89	LY7T	1510
16	G0GQT	L	JO01GJ	26	0	1	0	25	G		87	SQ8MK	1503
17	G7D *	L	IO91SK	28	0	1	0	27	G	EI	87	DK4WW	996
18	DK4WW *	L	JO62XE	20	0	2	0	18	G	EI	85	EI9FVB	1544
19	EI2KA	L	IO51HM	24	1	0	0	23	G	EI	82	GM2V	774
20	SQ8MK	L	KO11CJ	15	1	1	0	13	G		82	EI9KA	2150
21	EI8KN	H	IO62IE	22	0	0	0	22	G	EI	77	GM0TKB	762
22	OR4T	H	JO20CL	31	0	1	0	30			77	SQ8MK	1267
23	G5UM	L	IO92HQ	21	0	0	0	21	G	EI	76	DK4WW	1043
24	GW4J	L	IO73WF	22	0	0	0	22	G	EI	68	DF5EN	785
25	G2AA	L	IO92KO	19	0	0	0	19	G	EI	66	F4EZJ	804
26	G4DBW	L	JO01NI	14	0	0	0	14	G	EI	65	GM4JYB	845
27	G3R	L	IO83SJ	18	0	0	0	18	G	EI	62	GM4JYB	573
28	EI7CC	L	IO63WG	17	0	0	0	17	G	EI	61	F4EZJ	987
29	EI9KA	L	IO53HA	24	0	2	0	22	G		61	SQ8MK	2150
30	EI2IAB	L	IO63NK	31	0	4	0	27	G		60	S57KM	1739
31	OZ4NA	L	JO46WR	9	0	0	0	9	G	EI	59	EI8CE	1214
32	EI7GY	H	IO63WG	14	0	0	0	14	G	EI	56	GM4JYB	613
33	G4DZL	L	IO92IS	17	0	1	0	16	G	EI	56	SQ8MK	1612
34	GM4VYQ	L	IO76GA	15	0	1	0	14	G	EI	49	OR4T	891
35	OM3CPF	H	JN88QQ	6	0	0	0	6	G		47	MI3UIW	1800
36	PE1EWR *	L	JO11SL	13	0	1	1	11	G	EI	46	EI7PRC	825
37	G4BRK	L	IO91HP	10	0	0	0	10	G	EI	46	GM2V	705
38	G4NKT	L	IO81RL	19	0	1	0	18	G		44	GM0TKB	800
39	EI6GMB	L	IO52NW	11	0	1	0	10	G	EI	38	GM2V	617
40	G0AKF	L	IO83TH	7	0	0	0	7	G	EI	38	EI9FVB	452
41	SM5CSS	L	JO89LS	4	0	0	0	4	G		31	EI8CE	1713
42	DD0ML	L	JO40IK	5	0	0	0	5	G		29	MI3UIW	1164
43	G1JJA	L	IO92AH	7	0	0	0	7	G		25	GM2V	623
44	G1WVK	L	IO81WV	5	0	1	0	4			4	GM2V	667
45	SP1TP	L	JO73GK	1	0	0	0	1			4	G3XYF	985
46	M0KNM	L	IO91VV	1	0	0	0	1			2	G4BYE	5
47	CT1AL	H	IN60AQ	4	0	3	0	1			0	EI7PRC	1260

Soapbox

Soapbox comments from UKEICC 80m SSB contest using 6 char grids on 01/01/2025 unconnected -- DD0ML HNY to everyone. Weak signals at first but then got stronger and stronger. -- DF5EN Best QRB is 1734km for S57KM at JN76HD -- EI2IAB Difficult band conditions for me tonight. Here's hoping this isn't the shape of conditions to come in 2025. Thanks for QSOs and happy new year. -- EI2KA That was hard work. Poor conditions, sorry to all those I could not pull out. Hopefully CW will be better at the end of the month. Happy new year to all. David EI5KG -- EI5G Thank you -- EI6GMB Very difficult at the start, only a little better towards the end! -- EI7GY Best QRB is 2093km for SQ8MK at KO11CJ -- EI7PRC Condx were down as was activity level. used SD fb -- EI8CE poor conditions heavy QRM but great fun as always -- EI9KA IC 7610 EFHW LONG WIRE -- G0AKF THAT WAS EXTREMLY DIFFICULT TONIGHT WITH S 7-9 OF NOISE. HOPE IT WAS STATIC RAIN AND NOT A NEIGHBOURS APPLIANCE. THANKS FOR YOUR PATIENCE. 73's. HNY. Mark. -- G0GQT FIRST TIME FOR ONE OF THESE QUICK CONTESTS, A STRUGGLE HERE WITH HIGH NOISE LEVELS -- G1JJA Very High noise and band did not open here until last 10-15 mins. -- G3R Very poor conditions. Big signals from Italy but little heard inter-G -- G3SWC I can't quite believe how bad that was. Last 20 mins were slightly better than the first 40. My antenna got caught in the TV antenna so high/variable SWR, but even on my RX antenna I only copied about 5 more station than I worked. -- G4BRK Long skip. Poor conditions -- G4BYE Noisy conditions . No short skip . Slow traffic this evening. -- G4DBW High noise floor here, I hope due to the high K-index and aurora, not an antenna fault ? UK and EI signals were not strong and often swamped by the noise. Central EU stations were the best, but not many of you on the band. Next time, a good Rx antenna might improve things a lot - my Beverage or the Loop antenna, which are both packed away. 73 de G5GEI @ G4FJK First 40 minutes ... terrible condx. -- G7D Hard work at times but considering the aurora a few hours earlier not to bad. -- GI4SJQ Band very busy with non-contest stations. Strong aurora here. Tnx QSOs - Happy New Year! 73 Chris -- GM2V Poor conditions due to aurora. Hard work but good fun. Happy New Year and thanks to all. IC-7300, 100w, dipole at 13m. -- GM4JYB Suffered a very high level of Christmas lights noise and there didn't appear to be as many on for the contest as usual. Happy New Year. -- GM4VYQ Condition are not the best :-( but fun to run one hour contest. -- OR4T Working remotely. Sorry I couldn't wish you HNY on the air, since I could just play recordings of my callsign, locator and GL. Happy New Year!!! -- S57KM This was my worst operation in UKEICC ever only four stations did hear me! HNY to all de Allan -- SM5CSS

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