The UK Six Metre Group

2024 UKSMG Summer Contest Results

Once again, conditions variable this year however, some good ES openings from the UK to Europe depending on where your located. Entries were down again from 32 last year to 23 this year, the rise in popularity of FT8 is clearly having an impact on contest particapation. It was good to see the Committee active again giving away those bonus points!

Congratulations to our winners and runners up as follows:

Multi Operator	G4ANT/P	MOP Winners Certificate Awarded
Single Operator Fixed	DL2OM	SOF Winners Certificate Awarded
Single Operator Portable	No Entries	No SOP Winners Certificate Awarded
QRP	G0OIW/P	QRP Winners Certificate Awarded
Six Hour Fixed	5B4AAB	6F Winners Certificate Awarded
Six Hour Portable	No Entries	No 6P Winners Certificate Awarded

A special thanks to Pete G4CLA and Mike G0GJV for supplying the robot contest entry platform and the contest adjudication software, and and Ian, G0FCT for his assistance with the contest adjudication. Details are shown in the results tables below, please scroll down to view.

Dave Toombs - contest@uksmg.org

Full results in the following tables:

Section MO

Pos	Group	Callsign	Locator	QSOs	Score	Bonus	DXCC	LocCount	Members	Special Calls	Total	ODX Call	ODX Loc	ODX Kms	Ant
1		G4ANT/P	JO02LN	118	102429	54000	26	68	8	3	156429	CN8VY	IM63NX	2159	7 ele
2	URE Palma de Mallorca	EA6URP	JM19LM	63	86517	26000	16	36	0	0	112517	UT9CZ	KN59QA	2478	4 Elem OWA
3		G4JBH	IO80QW	50	54184	28500	14	34	5	2	82684	SM2EKM	KP15UW	2232	5 ele Dual
4		PF5X	JO21WR	26	31054	21500	15	24	2	1	52554	EA5/PA5JF	IM76RT	1851	Moxon
5	Hereford ARS	M1L	IO81WV	15	11225	12500	7	13	1	2	23725	SM3PZG	JP93II	1763	4 Ele LFA

Section SOF

Pos	Group	Callsign	Locator	QSOs	Score	Bonus	DXCC	LocCount	Members	Special Calls	Total	ODX Call	ODX Loc	ODX Kms	Ant
1		DL2OM	JO30SN	141	142643	56500	23	88	2	0	199143	TA3RST	KM38NI	2053	5 El. Yagi-Antenna
2		Z33B	KN01QA	37	51620	17500	11	24	0	0	69120	PA3ALK	JO21DV	1774	4 ELL YAGI
3		EA5ITJ	JN00BC	23	45177	13500	7	20	0	0	58677	G1JJA	AH92AO	16960	STEPPIR 3 ELE
4	Norfolk ARC	G8VPE	JO02TP	13	14823	10500	9	12	0	0	25323	IK7EOT	JN80PJ	1807	Wire Dipole
5		DK6OC	JO31KE	11	10997	6000	4	7	1	0	16997	LZ1YE	KN22QO	1692	Moxon Dual 6/4
6	King's Lynn ARC	M0XXM	JO02EP	8	8940	6000	4	5	1	1	14940	IS0BSR	JM49OF	1638	LFA
7		YO5PVZ	KN17UM	1	1582	1500	1	1	1	0	3082	5B4AAB	KM64EU	1582	lz vertical antenna
8		DF5DK	JO30ON	1	1472	1000	1	1	0	0	2472	OH6JUM	KP01SD	1472	3EL BEAM

Section SOP

No Entries

Section QRP

Pos	Group	Callsign	Locator	QSOs	Score	Bonus	DXCC	LocCount	Members	Special Calls	Total	ODX Call	ODX Loc	ODX Kms	Ant	Trophy/Cert
1	Maidenhead	G0OIW/P	IO91MP	1	85	1000	1	1	0	0	1085	M1L	IO81WV	85	Dipole

Section 6F

Pos	Group	Callsign	Locator	QSOs	Score	Bonus	DXCC	LocCount	Members	Special Calls	Total	ODX Call	ODX Loc	ODX Kms	Ant
1	Verulam Amateur Radio Club	5B4AAB	KM64EU	70	156402	32000	17	47	0	0	188402	GI0EJU	IO64JQ	3748	4ele
2		SM3PZG	JP93II	68	114147	30500	14	43	2	1	144647	DL8WN	JN31WU	2493	5 ele yagi
3		MM0T	IO75UT	78	96037	34500	18	51	0	0	130537	HA6NY	KN08WC	1972	7 EL YAGI
4		SM5EPO	JP80MC	56	78456	17000	7	26	1	0	95456	I2FAK	JN45OB	1752	6el Yagi
5		TC3EC	KM38RF	41	58227	17000	8	26	0	0	75227	EB3AKL	JN01UN	2220	DİPOL
6		G8ZRE	IO83NE	38	42864	22000	12	29	1	1	64864	LY4MO/P	KO24FB	1794	3 ELEMENT YAGI AT 10 AGL 30M ASL.
7	TC3EC	TA3NEM	KM38NJ	30	47173	14500	9	19	1	0	61673	F8ATS	JN18DP	2289	Dipol Antenna
8	SK6EI	SM6EWB	JO68RP	33	36420	17500	10	24	1	0	53920	I4TJE	JN54PM	1578	Doublet
9		G4NBS	JO02AF	27	24974	20500	12	22	3	2	45474	CN8VY	IM63NX	2104	5ele
10		SA4BKD	JP70GP	10	13283	8000	6	10	0	0	21283	F8ATS	JN18DP	1545	3el OWL
11	TC3EC	TA3RST	KM38NI	8	11602	5500	4	7	0	0	17102	DG1AAE	JO52LD	1980	Dipol antenna
12		G3YRZ	JO02MI	3	3046	4500	3	3	1	1	7546	EA5NW	IM98OD	1587	Vertical Moxon in attic
13		DL8WAA	JO30VI	2	3069	2000	2	2	0	0	5069	LZ1YE	KN22QO	1593	40m dipole
14	UKRAINIAN CONTEST CLUB	ER/UT1ZZ	KN37WS	1	1485	1500	1	1	1	0	2985	5B4AAB	KM64EU	1485	Diamond V2000
15	Danish DX Group	OV1RR	JO55VK	1	1699	1000	1	1	0	0	2699	LZ6G	KN22PV	1699	2 el Yagi
16	Spandau DXers	DL7AUO	JO62MN	1	1069	1000	1	1	0	0	2069	G8ZRE	IO83NE	1069	Dipol
17		IU5BON	JN53OT	1	12	1000	1	1	0	0	1012	IZ5HQB	JN53NR	12	J-POLE

Section 6P

No Entries

Checklogs

Check logs are gratefully acknowledged from DJ3RA, G5KW, M0AGP and M1ABK.

Soapbox

DL2OM

This time a great long lasting opening on Sunday after some short outbreaks on Saturday. What could one have achieved more if there was no FT8 present absorbing up to 90 % activity..

DL8WAA

First 6-m-QSOs in my life :-)

EA6URP/strong>

Una jornada en portable educativa y a la vez dificil. Después de varias gestiones nos ubicamos en un emplazamiento adecuado para que nos pudieran visitar facilmente, lo cual no fué lo más adecuado para el concurso, pues teniamos EA5/7/8/9 tapado. Lo ideal era en la terraza trasera del hotel, pero el gerente ya se encargo de ponernos su desagrado, de que estuvieramos inclusive fuera en el parquin (Menos mál que llevabamos permisos varios. Nada más llegar, un suicida se habia tirado por el acantilado. Y para más INRI, los 1,2G y superiores, sufriamos una interferencia brutal de los transmisores lindantes (Supuestamente Radar Aereo). A pesar de ello, lo pasamos bien, montamos un buen tinglado y se interesarón muchos EA6 y socios que nos llamarón, lo cual nos satisface tanto o más que ir a ganar, el haber puesto nuestro granito de arena al acercar este mundillo en EA6. GRACIAS a todos 73´s EA6URP

G0OIW/P

Heavy local QRM + mostly flat + few operators = disaster. Brief opening to Iberia but they couldn't hear me.

G3YRZ

Poor and noisy for me.

G4ANT/P

Very poor condition this year lack of E's on the Saturday, very little activity from UK also, Sunday morning E's from Scandinavia through to Spain, but died off around mid morning.

G4NBS

As Usual, total flat on Saturday with dire activity despite lots on FT8. Some Es on Sunday when I was around but no real DX while VK was being worked on FT8(!) Still good to get some analogue QSO in the log :-)

G8ZRE

This contest hard to score Good number of DX stations worked. 42845 KMS .DXCC 11.QRAS 29. MEMBERS 2. Comt stations 1. Which hopefully gives a score of 64854 points. Hope I have transcribed log correctly from one sent in on Sunday. Dave G8ZRE

M0AGP

Strongest signal was G4ANT/P

M1ABK

Variable but some good E's on Sunday morning !

M1L

Slow going

MM0T

Band only seemed to open for the Sunday morning. Pity 4L4RC didn't give me a locator. We need to encourage more folk onto CW. This should have its own category in this contest.

OV1RR

Only wkd 1 hour before closure, calling contest. Only one hrd and wkd. GL - OV1RR

PF5X

This contest was as a side activity of the IARU R1 field day. Despite some good openings in particular Sunday morning participation was a big disappointment. As I mentioned in my comments of previous years' contests this might be due to the fact that the rules of this contest are just a copy of IARU R1 50MHz contest except for the UKSMG member numbers. In other words this contest does not add any value. That's a pity. Please revert to the initial rules and exchange format which was so much more fun (w/o the dreadful serial number).

SA4BKD

Very patchy, stations appearing briefly and then disappearing. Propagation was north-south

TA3NEM

I built my antenna on Sunday afternoon and had a great time.

Z33B

Best QRB is 1774km for PA3ALK at JO21DV

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