Narc Contest News (4) Friday 22nd October 2021
Welcome to week four of NARC’s contest news.
Firstly a reminder that the NARC contest net takes place every Friday evening at 9pm clock time on 145.250MHz. This is a useful place to exchange contest information and get help with logging and station setup issues etc.
There have been several contests over the past week in which NARC members have participated.
I've had no input from anyone with news updates or requests this week except last minute reports from John G8VPE and Mike G4DYC on 145.450 featured further down the page. If you would like anything mentioned or have any news please contact me on the email address at the end of this article.
We are always on the lookout for new contesters to add to our team and welcome people of any ability who either wish to add their score to ours or develop their skills.
This year we have won the local club section of the CC contest series which runs on 80m including CW, SSB, and RTTY/PSK modes.
We are active in the Autumn series of 80M RSGB contests at the moment and are currently in overall first place in the local clubs section having stretched our lead in thelast two sections.
We are currently lying in overall 16th place in the UKACs out of 74 clubs in the General section.
Recent activity :-
Over the last few days there have been several interesting contests.
The first of note was the 80m RSGB ROLO or rolling locator CW contest. For those who don't know how this works, in your first contact you send your own locator but in each subsequent contact you send the locator you last received. This is great practice for copying reliably and it's interesting to see your own locator return to you after a while having done the rounds. Some do come through horribly mangled! Narc members were out in force for this contest with 8 members submitting logs all with good scores.
On Saturday 16th and Sunday 17th October the 48h JARTS RTTY contest ran, I had 54 contacts including two with the host country (Japan) and 31 other countries. John G8VPE was the only other NARC member I have been made aware of who participated - he worked 47 stations in 35 countries.
Sunday 17th October saw the 50MHz AFS contest with reasonable conditions and a brief burst of es towards the last few minutes allowing qsos to Poland and Italy for some. There were 5 entries from NARC and generally good activity from JO02.
This Tuesday saw the latest leg of the UKACs with the 1.3GHz session taking place. Conditions were fairly poor although some DX was available. 4 NARC members have submitted entries.
This Thursday 21st October saw the 70MHz UKAC Three of us from NARC were involved, G4DYC, G4KQY and myself. Conditions were fairly flat. Best Dx from here was GI4SNA.
Finally and not quite a contest but worthy of mention, last weekend, Mike G4DYC took part in 'Exercise Blue Ham'. This event is run by the military cadet forces on the 5MHz shared band allowing report exchanges between amateurs and cadet stations, Certificates are provided for > 10 contacts. Conditions were mainly northerly long skip to the North of England and Scotland.
Upcoming contests in the next 2 weeks:-
On VHF / UHF / SHF (all times in UTC)
Tue 26th Oct 1830 to 2130, SHF UKAC
Tue 2nd Nov 1900 to 2130, 144MHz UKAC
Wed 3rd Nov 1900 to 2100, 144MHz FT8 AC
On HF (all times in UTC)
Wednesdays throughout the year, CW ops 1 hour mini tests 13:00, 19:00, Thurs 03:00 exchange Name and G or CWOPS number
Sat Sun Oct 23/24th, UK/EI Dx Contest SSB (see wa7bnm for rules etc)
Sat Sun Oct 23/24th, Stew Perry Topband challenge (see wa7bnm for rules etc)
Thu 28th Oct 1900-2030, Autumn Series SSB - Another big one for NARC please try to take part!
Mon 1st Nov 2000 to 2130 Autumn series Data - Ditto!
All RSGB contest rules and further details plus log submission at RSGB contest site
Look to WA7BMN’s contest calendar for other contests and links to rules etc at WA7BNM weekly contest calendar
A link to John 2E0TWQ’s site’s Narc contest history page - 2E0TWQ's NARC contest results page
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73 until next week,
Phil G4LPP