BERU 2017 RULES published

BERU 2017 rules have now been published at http://www.rsgbcc.org/hf/rules/2017/beru2017.shtml

Note the reduced submission time (5 days), the need to advise HFCC of any proposed remote operation and the extra HQ stations from the UK country call areas. There is now an additional penalty for logging errors!

 

Propagation article by Don G3XTTfrom PW

– has just been added under the main Getting Started tag

Cyprus plan for 2017

I now hope to visit the mountain-side contest  site of Norman 5B4AIE next year, allong with the long suffering  xyl.The section choice is still to be  decided.Maybe too far  for the HF bands? Mike G3VYI

Quake Contesters Commonwealth Medal

Hi Bob

Just a quick note to say thanks for all your efforts in arranging the Commonwealth Medal to be presented to Phil Holliday at the CDXC event.
He got quite a shock when he was called up and it really made his day.
73
Mark ZL3AB

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Member ZL3X The Quake Contesters

Cook Islands E51KTA

Ok I will be going, E51KTA I can confirm that now.
BERU 2017 (Middle w/e in March) w/e so in contest BERU ONLY outside will also be looking at WARC bands. I’ll confirm exact dates in time as suspect couple days before hand and the week after.

http://m1kta-qrp.blogspot.co.uk/2016/07/cook-islands.html
The focus that first w/e will be BERU stations so hopefully others
 will not make it too difficult hihi

72
Dom
M1KTA

8P9IF active in BERU 80th

Hi

i will be reactivating my old Barbados call 8P9IF in BERU 2017 from a site on the east coast of the island. Entry will be Restricted as usual.

73 Bob G3PJT

Canada 150: Special Event Prefixes for Canada’s Sesquicentennial

At the Dayton Hamvention, Radio Amateurs of Canada announced that it has secured permission for all Canadian Radio Amateurs to use special call sign prefixes to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Canada’s Confederation.

National, regional and local events will take place throughout 2017 to celebrate the anniversary and Canadian Amateurs will let their counterparts around the world know of our celebration by using the following special prefixes:

• Amateurs and clubs whose regular call signs start with VA will be able to use the CF prefix instead of VA (for example, VA3RAC will be authorized to use the CF3RAC call sign).
• Amateurs and clubs whose regular call signs start with VE will be able to use the CG prefix instead of VE (e.g., VE4RAC will be authorized to use CG4RAC).
• Amateurs and clubs whose regular call signs start with VO will be able to use the CH prefix instead of VO (e.g., VO1RAC will be authorized to use CH1RAC).
• Amateurs and clubs whose regular call signs start with VY will be able to use the CI prefix instead of VY (e.g., VY2RAC will be authorized to use CI2RAC).

These special prefixes are optional and Amateurs can choose if and when to use the special prefix vs their normal prefix at any time during the year. Stay tuned to the RAC website for additional information

For more information on Canada150 visit http://canada.pch.gc.ca/eng/1342792785740.

 

Quake Contesters team

Hi Bob

Sorry I am not sure who to direct this to but on behalf of the Quake Contesters team I’d like to thank the organisers for the Commonwealth Medal award.  It was totally unexpected and the boys were quite chuffed!  We have a lot of fun in the BERU and especially enjoy the team aspect.

We are looking forward to 2017.

73

Mark ZL3AB

2016 Results now out

See results write up here

VE3FU

Well, that didn’t turn out as I had planned. I was hoping that we’d have the same condx as in ARRL DX SSB last weekend, but obviously that didn’t pan out. I lost my amp early in the second hour and spent the next 3 hours trying to run LP and fix the amp at the same time. I managed to get it working again, but I knew I was falling behind, and with condx the way they were, I lost motivation but kept plugging away. My second radio (TS-850) seems to have lost all sensitivity on 20, 15, and 10m. I couldn’t hearing anything except the loud stations, which I’d already worked, on those bands, which really limited my SO2R work. My log shows no QSOs between 0828 and 0927 despite nearly continuous CQing on 80, 40, or 20. I had 3 QSOs in the final 90 minutes. Last year, I had no QSOs between 0803 and 0904. I see a pattern here :=) I must have been really close to another running station between ~1145 and ~1230 on 20m. I worked ~55 stations in that time, but at least 10 of them called me again later, making me wonder how many of the ~55 were actually calling the other station instead of me. I won’t be surprised if I lose a lot of those QSOs. Here’s a breakdown of some of my log: Raw QSOs Dupes Bonus HQ PTS BCA ————————————————————

80m 55 55 0 18 3 695 12

40m 194 192 2 56 5 2180 27

20m 186 255 13 37 4 2095 23

15m 59 59 0 39 2 1115 25

10m 15 15 0 14 1 375 11 ———————————————————— 591 576 15 164 15 6460 98 Three 5 band QSOs: VA3RAC, VE7CC, VE9CB (Compared to 33 last year as VA3RAC!) HQ Stations: VA3RAC, VE1RAC, VE7RAC, VO1RAC, GB5CC 98 Band Call Areas 411 QSOs in the first 12 hours, 180 in the last 12 hours. G: 396 QSOs with 248 unique stations VE: 94 QSOs with 40 unique stations VK: 25 QSOs with 19 unique stations ZL: 24 QSOs with 11 unique stations 80m G: 36 VE: 14 VK: 1 ZL: 0 40m G: 125 VE: 30 VK: 19 ZL: 8 20m G: 214 VE: 27 VK: 2 ZL: 2 15m G: 21 VE: 17 VK: 2 ZL: 8 10m G: 0 VE: 6 VK: 1 ZL: 5 Still one of my favourite contests! Thanks for all the QSOs and to all the DX travellers who make this contest more interesting! 73, Chris VE3FU / VO2AC