2015 UKSMG Summer Contest Results
Turnout this year was slightly up on last year and considering the appalling conditions this is a good result. May I take this opportunity to thank all stations for abiding by the band plan as I have not received any complaints of infringements into 50.100-50.130 DX part of the band.

Conditions in the contest were very poor with sporadic-E only popping up for some stations for a few minutes if at all in the whole contest. It seems that the effect was most felt for higher latitudes suggesting that a coronal hole facing the earth was playing a big part in the lack of an e-layer. For those who had good take-offs enjoyed some reasonable contacts via tropo-scatter and some meteor scatter contacts were made.

Very mixed comments on conditions for this contest, for those on for the full 24 hours managed to find a few minutes of sporadic-E whereas a number of 6 hour contesters had no conditions at all and had a tough slog on average tropo conditions.

It seemed though that most enjoyed the contest and when the band was quiet it at least enabled some rest time and cw practice! Being in the right place at the right time was certainly evident. Last year saw a number of stations having QSOs with VK8, this year there was still some juicy DX to be had with Z35T working JH4IUO in PM64 for the ODX of the contest at 8966km and UV7E working HL5BMX in PM45 at 7517km. Showing that things weren’t too bad everywhere 8 stations had an ODX greater than 3000km.

Logging quality was mixed this year and common errors were incorrect serial numbers and some odd calls due to Mixing I’s and O’s with numbers. Many stations never logged the UKSMG numbers and therefore lost the multiplier which was a shame and some of these impacted in the challenge for the top slots. It is worthwhile at least checking prefixes before submitting as a number of these were obviously wrong and checking that reports make sense i.e. is 6/9 a report?

Well done to all of the section leaders and runners up and a special mention to UV7E who were the overall leaders when looking at all the scores.
Certificate
 Multi Operator
G4ANT/P
Winner of the Ellis Cup
Certificate Single Operator Fixed   NP3CW   Winner of the Richardson Cup
Certificate Single Operator Portable   UV7E   Winner of the HB9QQ plate
Certificate QRP   4X1IF   Winner of the Secretaries Tray
Certificate Six Hour Fixed   IZ8FFA   6 Hour Winners certificate Awarded
Certificate Six Hour Portable   GW0IRW/P   6 Hour Winners certificate Awarded

A special thanks to Pete G4CLA and Mike G0GJV for supplying the robot contest entry platform
and the contest adjudication software. Details are shown in the results tables below.

Dave Edwards - contest@uksmg.org

Section MO
Pos Callsign Locator QSOs Score Mult DXCC Grids UKSMG Total ODX Call ODX Loc Km Pwr Antenna Operators
1 G4ANT/P JO02LN 157 54,296 44,500 16 38 35 98,796 EA8CTK IL18NI 3,068 400 5 and 7ele M0NKR
G0DWV
G7SOZ
G8VPE
2 MW5A/P IO81NV 127 40,806 38,500 11 30 36 79,306 LZ4KAC KN13RD 2,188 400 4ele GW4BLE
G3WVG
3 Z35T KN11CR 36 43,883 19,500 13 26 0 63,383 JH4IUO PM64FJ 8,966 100 Inv.Vee Z32ID
Z32ZM
Z35T
Z35Z
4 G5FS/P IO82QL 90 19,128 25,000 7 22 21 44,128 IZ8FFA JM78TC 2,132 100 6ele LFA M1GRY
G7FBD
5 G0LGS IO81WV 61 16,497 24,500 5 21 23 40,997 EA7HV IM77HL 1,624 400 4ele LFA G0LGS
2E0MDJ
6 G7RAU/P IO90HP 50 13,567 24,000 6 18 24 37,567 IZ8FFA JM78TC 1,933 100 4ele Eagle G7RAU
G3UFY
G3VYI
G3SJX
Section SOF
Pos Callsign Locator QSOs Score Mult DXCC Grids UKSMG Total ODX Call ODX Loc Km Pwr Antenna  
1 NP3CW FK68XK 25 69,851 9,000 3 15 0 78,851 XE2OR DL98OK 3,701 100 Yagi 6ele  
2 5B4AIF KM64HV 39 53,807 19,500 11 28 0 73,307 IS0YTG JM49NG 2,135 400 6ele Quad  
3 G4FJK IO80HV 80 33,332 38,500 13 32 32 71,832 IZ8FFA JM78TC 2,061 400 7+7ele  
4 DL2OM JO30SN 71 37,923 32,500 20 43 2 70,423 UZ2HO KN79GO 1,919 25 5el M2  
5 G3SVD IO91II 80 26,746 33,000 10 26 30 59,746 5B4AAB KM64EU 3,248 400 6ele yagi  
6 CT2HKN IN51OM 21 26,994 10,500 4 12 5 37,494 EA8CTK IL18NI 1,638 100 Dipole  
7 UY5QZ KN77NT 14 18,130 10,000 6 13 1 28,130 SM4EMO JO79OC 1,808 50 3el Quad GPA  
8 G4AYU IO83PQ 16 12,361 13,000 5 14 7 25,361 EB5BQC IM98OL 1,698 100 3ele LFA  
9 G8ONK IO83MR 18 11,115 13,500 5 14 8 24,615 EA7HV IM77HL 1,817 80 5ele YU7EF  
10 G8HGN JO01FO 28 3,731 16,000 5 13 14 19,731 DL2OM JO30SN 508 100 6ele LFA  
11 M0HFY IO81UT 6 701 6,000 2 5 5 6,701 G8BCG IO70RK 220 100 Dipole  
12 OZ9V JO46QE 3 2,038 2,000 2 2 0 4,038 UT7E KN78MM 1,926 ? unknown  
Section SOP
Pos Callsign Locator QSOs Score Mult DXCC Grids UKSMG Total ODX Call ODX Loc Km Pwr Antenna  
1 UV7E KN77AR 54 78,241 31,500 21 42 0 109,741 HL5BMX PM45ID 7,517 100 7ele  
Section QRP
Pos Callsign Locator QSOs Score Mult DXCC Grids UKSMG Total ODX Call ODX Loc Km Pwr Antenna  
1 4X1IF KM72KD 34 67,457 16,000 10 22 0 83,457 OH6BG KP03SD 3,573 5 Yagi  
2 M0VCP JO02QC 19 4,883 11,000 5 11 6 15,883 IZ8FFA JM78TC 1,910 5 5ele LFA  
3 MW1EYP/P IO83JC 5 624 5,000 2 4 4 5,624 G4ANT/P JO02LN 287 5 SB6-Moxon  
4 N8XA/P EM89MM 4 2,665 2,500 1 4 0 5,165 WA2VYA EM10MM 1,618 5 7ele  
Section 6F
Pos Callsign Locator QSOs Score Mult DXCC Grids UKSMG Total ODX Call ODX Loc Km Pwr Antenna  
1 IZ8FFA JM78TC 27 41,170 16,000 8 16 8 57,170 EI3KD IO51VW 2,405 85 6 EL  
2 5B4AAB KM64EU 22 37,228 13,500 7 18 2 50,728 G3SVD IO91II 3,248 400 3ele  
3 M0WLF IO81QJ 56 20,520 26,000 9 25 18 46,520 TF3ML HP94AC 1,806 400 7ELE  
4 M0OMB IO83PO 31 12,587 18,000 6 17 13 30,587 EA7HV IM77HL 1,805 50 3LFA  
5 GM3WUX IO75UU 7 9,307 6,000 5 7 0 15,307 I6WJB JN72CK 1,997 250 5EL QUAD  
6 OK1IN JO60XE 10 8,930 5,000 3 7 0 13,930 UR6IDX KN87RB 1,755 50 4EL YAGI  
7 M0ICR IO91SO 30 3,225 6,000 2 10 0 9,225 GW0IRW/P IO72WF 261 ? ?  
8 M0BTZ IO90GX 9 983 7,000 2 5 7 7,983 G4ANT/P JO02LN 243 400 3ELE DK7ZB  
9 EC1CT IN73XD 4 4,448 2,500 2 3 0 6,948 EI7FAB IO53IU 1,252 100 EAGLE 6M6  
Section 6P
Pos Callsign Locator QSOs Score Mult DXCC Grids UKSMG Total ODX Call ODX Loc Km Pwr Antenna  
1 GW0IRW/P IO72WF 66 29,579 29,000 9 27 22 58,579 IK7UXU JN81HE 1,991 80 5ele F9FT  
2 IS0/DK7ZB

JM49GT

 17 30,785 13,000 8 12 6 43,785 TJ3SN JJ53SU 4,010 100 2x3ele DK7ZB  
3 IZ5HQB JN53NR 5 6,420 4,000 4 4 0 10,420 GI4SNA IO64XM 1,724 50 Moxon HM  
Thanks for the check-logs received from M0NQN and M0MPM/P .
A special mention to Mike - GM1YQH who activated IO88 and due to the conditions never worked a soul. Thanks for the effort, Mike.
Comments from Entrants

4X1IF
AWFUL 6m Es conditions all Spring 2015.

5B4AAB
Only one hour on Sunday morning.

DL2OM
I was quite anxious to take part once more again in that contest. But how disappointing it was.
Almost none Sporadic E just tropo and MS. In this way it is a real challenge to accumulate QSOs and points.
Anyway it was fun after all. See you again next year.

EC1CT
Conditions were very poor. Some activity on sunday and only sporadic signal with much fading on saturday.
Will repeat next year. 73

G3SVD
Condx were abysmal only alleviated by some Es on Sunday even these were sporadic!
Signal levels were low and there was a distinct lack of club members active. Can we try a different weekend next year?
I think this used to be called the Summer Es contest !

G4ANT/P
Enjoyable contest which took part over field day and our radio clubs radio active weekend, E's were in very short supply,
but think this is the best we have done in this contest.

G5FS/P Hard going

G7RAU/P Tough condx but still great fun. Tnx for all qsos.

G8HGN
All QSO's via tropo' no Es on Sat' & little on Sun' when I heard one or two but no contacts.
What a shame condx conspired against this weekend. My logging prog',

GM3WUX
Pity conditions didn't do anything till the last hour.

GW0IRW/P
Two three hour stints (first 3 + last 3) generally flat conditions with just a few E's in the last hour or so...
WX was kind though :O)

M0MPM/P
some sporadic e heard M0NQN Flat and dreary!

M0OMB
Cdx flat with some 'E' to EA/CT in the last hour or so. Only available to operate on the Sunday. Tnks for the QSOs.

M0VCP
Poor propagtion on Saturday no SPE. Sunday morning again little in the way of sp E enhancement.
Sunday afternoon very short and localised openings to south East. Maybe next year we might get a decent opening!
73 Simon M0VCP

MW1EYP/P
Operating from SOTA summit GW/NW-053

MW5A/P
see photos etc at: http://www.g0aaa.com/GW0AAA-Jun15/GW0AAA-Jun-15.html

OK1IN
Some short Es, no tropo

GM1YQH
I entered the summer contest from Orkney under the 6 hr portable section working from a location just out of kirkwall IO88MW
unfortunately after battling with wind and heavy sleet and rain ! i gave up after 2hrs and heard no stations so no score.