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UK/EI DX SSB Contest - 22nd/23rd September 2018

Thanks for entering the 4th UK/EI DX SSB contest! We hope you enjoyed the event and will enter our UK/EI DX CW contest in March 2019. We are pleased to receive 220 entries (incl Checklogs) this year - up from 150 last year - a 47% increase. UK/EI entries are also up, from 45 to 50. Despite the poor conditions there was a good showing from EU and further afield but activity from the UK and EI continues to be disappointing. The success of this format relies on DX stations having good numbers of 'home' stations to work for potential multipliers.So all UK and EI participants who took part please tell your friends and fellow club members (a) how much fun you had, and (b) the conditions are bound to improve! More activity from UK/EI will make this contest more fun for everyone. Please also submit your log, particularly if you make a significant number of contacts - we make this very easy and every log improves the adjudiction accuracy. The results below are now final (October 1st). Further tables will appear in due course. The overall winner this year is Chris, GM3WOJ operating GM2V and who wins the superb Kenwood Cup for the second time. He has now won the main prize in both modes, an excellent achievement. (When it became clear he could be in line for an award Chris relinquished any further involvement in the adjudication process and handed everything over to his fellow adjudicators). Overall EU winner is Marius YO3CZW operating the club station YP0C, and Mohammed A41NN in Muscat was the leading DX entrant. Winner of the Low Power section is Valery US0YW operating the club station of UR2Y with Giovanni IZ7FLP leading the qrp section. Kolja DK5KK was the leading Rookie entrant this year having been licenced for just 2 years. Congratulations to all winners! Scroll down to read the Soapbox comments and some Statistics. Full details of all awards and certificates will appear here later. The UKEICC team welcome your comments or suggestions about this contest - please e-mail them to team@ukeicc.com Tell us what you think! 73 Stewart GW0ETF, Paul EI5DI - Adjudicators

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

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DX 24Hr UnAssisted
High Power Low Power QRP
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1A61FKH    1576420608
24Z5FIH    86418979
3K3ZOH    30252700
4K4BAIH    320
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1TA4AL    S 44231656
2YB3BARL    114
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DX 12Hr UnAssisted
High Power Low Power QRP
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1R9ABH   T S 77418692
2WB8WKQH   T 2715510
3A71AEH   T 2013442
4TA1APIH   T S 117140
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1TA4PRL   T 83325280
2TA4RCL   T S 36263250
3TA1OSNL   T Sr32141540
4TA2XXL   T 97154
5TA3AERL   T S 5575
6TA3EPL   T S 2216
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DX 24Hr Assisted
High Power Low Power QRP
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1TA4CSHA   75369396
2VU2YVKHA   76355460
3N1SOHHA   118176
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1CN8MAALA   1665722458
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DX 12Hr Assisted
High Power Low Power QRP
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1A41NNHA  T 1947635796
2K0OOHA  T 1813455
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1A61BKLA  T 3921756
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Soapbox

Soapbox comments (uncensored!) : NOT CONDITIONS ONLY 86 QSO -- 4Z5FI FT-1000MP 100W 24m lw ant -- DJ1OJ licensed April 2016 -- DK5KK Work from DARC Clubstation I21 from Bad Bentheim Germany -- DL0ZZ 73 -- DO4WLL Conditions and support poor. -- EI1E That was hard work very deep QSB and nothing on 10 or 15 -- EI7GY 2OW, MP1C antenna. -- EI/OK1NYD Was checking after work if antennas were turned in the wind! Then i turned on radio there's contest i did 100 qsos in bit more than an our before to give out! Only 25% of qsos were with UK/EI ! Congrats for the ones who were full qrv ! 73s Oli -- F6KHM First time entry - could only do a short time. -- G0CER Very enjoyable although conditions did seem poor. Thanks to all -- G1P 0100 0500 slot only worked one so went back to bed ! Little activity on Sunday think will just do a continuous 12 hour slot next year -- G2AA Very poor conditions, only worked 6.25 hours. I also thought the contest was not very well supported by UKEI ops unfortunately. -- G3XLG Never known condx so poor. Very high noise here on 80, 40, 20m. Other bands dead! -- G3YCH I found bands very poor and and noisy.No 10 or 15 conta Virtualy no EI and G stations heard and it was hard work. I used SD as usual which worked well and I enjoyed the contest. -- G4DDX A weekend of visitors and not enough time for radio. 100 Watts, Trap Dipole at 7M and hb 20M vertical with elevated radials. -- G4OZG God fun but conditions not great. Things got a bit better once 80m opened. We need more activity! -- G4PVM great friendly contest -- G5UM 40m seemed dire -- G6UBM A fun contest - if rather difficult due to incredibly variable conditions! Interesting hearing stations fade out from S9+ mid QSO! Tough work but fun as required good ears. -- G9Y Solar numbers 68/27/3 with zero sunspots = poor conditions - only 3 QSOs total on 15/10m. Eu QSOs kept me going! Thanks everyone 73 Chris -- GM2V 80m was fun overnight with some nice dx and the North American Sprint to help keep me awake. Overall conditions pretty dire and participation in the contest very poor. -- GW4J Poor conditions and no antenna for 20m so just a 12 hour token entry to shake out the station ahead of cqww to test the 40m vertical over night. Lack of interest from both uk and ei stations. -- GW9J No time but I had fun anyway. 73 Bob I2WIJ -- I2WIJ Only two hours of running but very nice -- IK4LZH PROPAGAZIONE ASSENTE..SPERIAMO NEL PROSSIMO ANNO...!!! SETUP: Dipole Antenna Kenwood TS 440 Pwr 100 Watt. -- IQ0RU PLEASE CONTROLL-LOG THANKYOU MANY MANY ERROR PROBLEM WITH N1MM SOFT -- IR9D bad propagation...not many stations from UK-EI... -- IU1HCC rookie : licensed 03/07/2017 yaesu 450d vertical antenna Eco7+ -- IU4JIC uk/ei DX -- IU6FUB QUITE A CHALLENGE. BANDS COULD WELL HAVE BEEN BETTER. LOOK FORWARD TO THE NEXT GO ROUND. THANKS FOR ALL OF THE Q'S. 73 PAT K0OO -- K0OO First attempt at UKEI contest and found to be very hard going from my location in the far sou

Some Statistics

Total QSOs: 13188 Cross Checked QSOs: 6139 UK/EI night bonus QSOs: 100 Total Entrants: 220 UK/EI Entrants: 51 EU Entrants: 145 DX Entrants: 24 Non-entrants are all callsigns worked who didn't submit a log Total Non-entrants: 2018 UK/EI Non-entrants: 496 EU Non-Entrants: 1259 DX Non-Entrants: 263 Total Unique Non-entrants: 1186 UK/EI Unique Non-entrants: 273 EU Unique Non-Entrants: 734 DX Unique Non-Entrants: 179 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: 150 UK/EI Non-entrants with 10 or more QSOs: 46 EU Non-entrants with 10 or more QSOs: 100 DX Non-entrants with 10 or more QSOs: 4 Top 20 non entrants IK3UNA 120 QSO records with last sent serial number of 229 9A3SMS 109 QSO records with last sent serial number of 196 IK2LFF 87 QSO records with last sent serial number of 152 F8KLY 85 QSO records with last sent serial number of 166 DL8UV 74 QSO records with last sent serial number of 84 IU3FBL 67 QSO records with last sent serial number of 82 DL1NKS 66 QSO records with last sent serial number of 73 M7C 64 QSO records with last sent serial number of 106 IQ1ZW 63 QSO records with last sent serial number of 101 IZ5EME 50 QSO records with last sent serial number of 72 HB9TPN 49 QSO records with last sent serial number of 86 PH1V 48 QSO records with last sent serial number of 56 IU8HPD 45 QSO records with last sent serial number of 62 SN5N 43 QSO records with last sent serial number of 81 IX1HPN 36 QSO records with last sent serial number of 47 2E0RMV 33 QSO records with last sent serial number of 39 IN3FOI 33 QSO records with last sent serial number of 41 F8DZU 32 QSO records with last sent serial number of 50 DG5FF 32 QSO records with last sent serial number of 38 GW4BZD 32 QSO records with last sent serial number of 48