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Results - DX SSB Contest - 30th Sept/1st Oct 2017

Thanks for enduring the poor propagation conditions and taking part in the third UK/EI DX SSB Contest. We should give Awards for perseverance under these sort of conditions. What a difference a year makes - in 2015 we received 240 entries, in 2016 we received 296 entries, in 2017 we received 137 entries! Note - some contest logging software e.g. WinTest 4.25.1 still expect the Norwich district code to be NR not the new NK. Don't worry you will not lose points if you logged NR instead of NK in this contest. Congratulations to the Multi-operator team of the Avondhu Radio Club EI1E (Ops. Denis EI4KH and Gerard EI5KF) on winning Overall. Congratulations to Declan EI9HQ as the leading single-operator and winner of the High Power Unassisted section, also to Clive GM3POI as winner of the 12-hour HP section and Irmantas LB1AH on winning the Rookie and Single element sections. A small number of logs were received well after the 24-hour log submission deadline and could not be included in the results - sorry. More Results tables, Winner 's names, Awards info, Checklogs etc will be added next week. Scroll down for Soapbox comments and some Statistics. Half of the UBN files have been e-mailed to entrants today (11th Oct) and the rest will be e-mailed next week. The UK/EI DX CW contest is on 31st March/1st April 2018 73 Chris GM3WOJ / GM2V - Adjudicator

Combined Results
QRO/Low/QRP
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UK/EI Sections
EU Sections
DX Sections

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DX 24Hr UnAssisted
High Power Low Power QRP
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1VU2YVKH    1307224696
2VO1BQH    S 2014672
3K1GMMH    1210340
4K4BAIH    6535
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1TA2LPL    S 1711275
29W2VRDL    6560
3YG7SPNL    S 5560
49W2LRNL    3318
59W6AJAL    3318
69W2VWTL    210
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DX 12Hr UnAssisted
High Power Low Power QRP
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1TA1APIH   T 88208
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1TA4RCL   T S 70459990
2TA3EPL   T S 324
3VU2NSLL   T 544
4TA2ACWL   T S 112
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DX 24Hr Assisted
High Power Low Power QRP
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1A61FKHA   56344046
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DX 12Hr Assisted
High Power Low Power QRP
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1VE2BWLHA  T 58282912
2N1SOHHA  T 31191539
3K0OOHA  T S 1610280
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Soapbox

All bands were extremely noisy. Not an easy contest at all -- 2E0LYF Firstime Join UK/EI DX Contest. Good Luck to All Contester.See you again UK/EI TEST 2018.de 9W2VRD West Malaysia -- 9W2VRD Checklog -- DC2CC My first UK / EI competition, I hope to return next year. TNX -- EB1EWE Unfortunately support for the contest was poor. -- EI1E BANDS POOR HIGH NOISE ON 80M 40M AND SOME ON 20M BEAT LAST YEARS SCORE -- EI9HQ Thank you for the contest! Propagation is very poor. -- EW1TZ NICE CONTEST ; BUT RUSSIAN CONTEST AT THE SAME TIME ! -- F8KLY 1st go at this chance to air one of Leicester clubs calls Sadly rules only allow 24 hour for club single ops Conditions disappointing got up at 2am to see if F2 had recovered it hadn't! hope better next time 73 de G8FCQ -- G2AA very poor and noisy condtions with almost no inter G. Quite enjoyed working EU, so different than the usual contests. -- G4DDX Condx and UK activity both seemed less than ideal. Congratulations to those DX stations with high scores who were always to be heard. A nice F2 opening on 10m on Saturday evening. Thanks for organising this contest. N1MM+ software was excellent and worked flawlessly. -- G4FJK Sorry, only time for just a short session on 80m on Saturday evening. -- G4S great friendly contest great logging programme -- G5UM HARD WORK FINDING STATIONS. RZ3Z RELUCTANT TO COMPLETE QSOs SD WORKED WELL -- G6UBM SD supports EI CONTEST well. Easy to use! -- GM0UKZ Not able to get on until later on the Saturday. Got the impression there had been more activity earlier. Sunday conditions possibly not so good. -- GM3ZDH Had other commitments so did a few hours when I could -- GW4BVJ Limited time mainly Saturday afternoon. Conditions not great! -- GW4J Poor band conditions and low UK/EI activity. -- GW4W tnx to all staff behind the Contest; it was a great pleasure but condx are still poor. RIG ICOM-7200; 100 W; Antennas 2 element SteppIR and 40/80 m Trap Dipole; both antennas 12 m over Ground. Hpe cu next year es 73 de HB9MXY Rudolf -- HB9MXY It was fun but I expected more UK/EI participation. Good test for my new setup. -- I2WIJ I like the contest formula, but few stations all around...what a pity! -- IK8UND SOAB LOW POWER SSB -- IZ0VXY BAND COULD BE BETTER LOOK TO THE NEXT ONE -- K0OO Tnx for contest 73! Trx IC-7600 Ant QuadLoop 80-10m P.A. SPC 1K -- LB1AH Some people gave strange district codes and a lot needed to be told what to actually exchange. -- LX9EG IC-7300 Delta Loop Multiband, TNX for Contest GL ,73 -- M0NPQ tough conditions. see you next time. -- M0VKY I did S&P working all those I could hear. It was fairly quiet on both days. -- M1PTR Poor conditions - and only time for a limited few hours entry. -- M4J Down on last year. Without the ON contest Sunday morning would have been very quiet! -- M9T Late start on Saturday and good flurry of action for 4hrs, then things were a bit slow towards 9pm. Started again Sunday morning but very poor condx here and only one Q for today. Keep promoting this contest, good format. -- MM1E 14 MHz skip was quite long... Used a 12 m long sloper up 4 m and an IC-7300 for the few contacts. Activity was very low.. Cheers/73, Zaba OH1ZAA -- OF5ZA licence on JAN 2015 -- OH1XFE Icom 706 pwr 5W Ant: ECO vertical -- RW3AI TS-590SG(100W), Windom @20m 73, Sandi -- S57KM Check log -- S58Q 73 de sm5alj Ben -- SE5L my TX =80 W + ant. LW 20m. -- SP1FPG TRX; HM QRP 9-band -- SQ8MFB 73 TA2ACW -- TA2ACW 73 -- TA3EP de TA4RC 73's -- TA4RC ICOM IC-7000 Indoor HVT-400B -- UT1ZZ TRX - MiniYES + PA 100W Ant - Vert Delta 85m -- UT8AS Propagation between UK/EI and VE was quite poor.Ended doing a single band effort. -- VE2BWL Condx seemed poor. 500w and Dipole. Lots of QRN on 40 and 80 Sat evening so I didn't even try. 73 Joe VO1BQ -- VO1BQ Participation -- YG7SPN TNX FER Contest! 73 DE YO5NI, Istvan -- YO5NI/P TS-480SAT 100W 20m J-pole antenna -- YO8SAO

Some Statistics

Total QSOs: 8492.5 Cross Checked QSOs: 2603.5 UK/EI night bonus QSOs: 14 Total Entrants: 137 UK/EI Entrants: 44 EU Entrants: 73 DX Entrants: 20 Non-entrants are all callsigns worked who didn't submit a log Total Non-entrants: 1994 UK/EI Non-entrants: 602 EU Non-Entrants: 996 DX Non-Entrants: 396 Total Unique Non-entrants: 1206 UK/EI Unique Non-entrants: 306 EU Unique Non-Entrants: 591 DX Unique Non-Entrants: 309 Stations who paid more than a casual interest in the contest but didn't submit a log Total Non-entrants with 10 or more QSOs: 129 UK/EI Non-entrants with 10 or more QSOs: 55 EU Non-entrants with 10 or more QSOs: 73 DX Non-entrants with 10 or more QSOs: 1 Top 20 non entrants YP0C 88 QSO records with last sent serial number of 439 IK3UNA 67 QSO records with last sent serial number of 223 F1FPL 59 QSO records with last sent serial number of 81 IK4DCX 54 QSO records with last sent serial number of 85 IV3UHL 53 QSO records with last sent serial number of 118 F4EIK 52 QSO records with last sent serial number of 108 IT9FRX 51 QSO records with last sent serial number of 92 IU3BTY 48 QSO records with last sent serial number of 82 UA6YN 39 QSO records with last sent serial number of 103 YT1A 38 QSO records with last sent serial number of 123 DL2ARD 38 QSO records with last sent serial number of 66 OK1DWQ 37 QSO records with last sent serial number of 57 EA3IN 33 QSO records with last sent serial number of 85 IT9PZM 32 QSO records with last sent serial number of 43 PE2LZ 30 QSO records with last sent serial number of 47 RV9DC 30 QSO records with last sent serial number of 45 I2VXJ 29 QSO records with last sent serial number of 125 G4IIY 28 QSO records with last sent serial number of 427 MI5JYK 28 QSO records with last sent serial number of 43 DL1NKS 26 QSO records with last sent serial number of 71