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Monthly Archives: April 2020

Active call areas in 2020

18 Saturday Apr 2020

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Plenty of DX to be found as the following list of active Commonwealth call areas shows 3B8,9, 5B, 6Y, 8P, 8Q, 9G, 9H, 9J, 9M0,2, 9V, 9Z, C4, C6, V3, V5, VE1,2,3,4,5,6,7,9, VK2,3,4,5,6,7,8, VO1,2, VP2,5,8,9, VY10,1,2, ZB2, ZD7, ZF, ZK, ZL1,2,3,4, ZS1,5,6. Not all of these were worked from the UK of course.

 

ZF2CA Epliogger woes

15 Wednesday Apr 2020

Posted by bobg3pjt in DXpeditions, News, Results

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Hi Bob,

As an epilogue to the 2020 ZF2CA entry I was caught out by a logger error which I failed to spot before uploading, amid all the Covid woes with return travel and business disruption. The short story is that my final log included no HQ bonuses.

After now working line by line through the log and my UBN, my calculations are that I would have scored 7445 points and therefore 2nd in SOU. I did appeal but only after publication of the results, so it was rejected. Of course, the decision of the RSGB is final which I have accepted.

The good news is that I am now working with the DxLog team to pipe clean its BERU variant before next year, plus I actually understand the scoring system now!

See you all next year!

73, Colin ZF2CA, G4CWH, M3E

Australia win

02 Thursday Apr 2020

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For the fourth year in row Australia has won the team section of the Radio Society of Great Britain’s Commonwealth Contest.

Australia One finished the contest with 35,683 points, with the top Canadian, World Traveller and New Zealand teams finishing second, third and fourth respectively.

Australia Two finished fifth overall in the team section, with 24,453 points

The CW-only Commonwealth Contest 2020 ran from 10.00 UTC on 14 March until
10.00 UTC on 15 March.

The stations in Australia One were Kevin VK6LW, John VK4CT, Barry VK2BJ, Steve VK6VZ and Alan
VK4SN, while Australia Two were Allan VK2GR, Brian VK3MI, Patrick VK2PN, Steve VK3JA and Rob VK6HG.

In addition we were ably supported by four Wireless Institute of Australia headquarters
stations, consisting of VK3WIA, VK4WIA, VK5WIA and VK6WIA. Many thanks to Lee VK3GK, the Sunshine Coast Amateur Radio Club, Grant VK5GR and Peter VK6RZ, who helped us by operating these HQ stations for as long as they could.

There were also some outstanding individual performances from Australia. Brian VK3MI was world second in the Restricted Unassisted section with 6,092 points, while Kevin VK6LW top scored for Australia with 8,060 points and finished eighth in the Open Unassisted section. Honourable mentions go to Barry VK2BJ and John VK4CT who tied for sixth place in the Open Assisted category, while Steve VK6VZ and Allan VK2GR respectively finished in tenth and eleventh places in the Open Unassisted category.

Overall, the conditions during the contest were typical for bottom of the solar cycle conditions, with 10m just about dead, 15m showing barely a pulse, 20m only giving brief openings into the UK on both short path and 80m providing both local and DX contacts. Thank goodness for 40m being in such excellent shape and providing up to half the points score for many competitors.

A big ‘thank you’ goes to all the other Australian stations who took part in Commonwealth Contest 2020.

The Radio Society of Great Britain’s Commonwealth Contest is one of the
oldest radio contests in existence, having been first run back in 1931
when it was known as British Empire Radio Week and lasted for six
days!

I hope to see you in Commonwealth Contest 2021.

73s from Steve Ireland, VK6VZ, Australian One Coordinator

VK Results – 2020 Commonwealth Contest

01 Wednesday Apr 2020

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Congratulations to the Australia 1 Team for achieving first place again in the 2020 Commonwealth Contest.

From the 2020 Commonwealth Contest results, I have extracted and sorted the VK and ZL scores; these are tabulated below.

Also attached for your interest are the charted team and HQ results.

Adjusted
VK Team 1 QSOs BCA Score Score
VK6LW 421 102 5,200 8,060
VK2BJ 340 100 4,755 7,370
VK4CT 349 95 4,755 7,370
VK6VZ 310 98 4,395 6,812
VK4SN 229 76 3,710 5,751
Total 1,649 471 22,815 35,363
Table 1.      Australia 1
Adjusted
VK Team 2 QSOs BCA Score Score
VK2GR 301 87 4,290 6,650
VK3MI 272 78 3,930 6,092
VK2PN 229 68 3,335 5,169
VK3JA 157 53 2,660 4,123
VK6HG 69 42 1,560 2,418
Total 1,028 328 15,775 24,452
Table 2.      Australia 2
VK HQ QSOs BCA Score
VK5WIA 148 60 2,660
VK6WIA 99 52 2,165
VK4WIA 69 39 1,545
VK3WIA Checklog
Total 316 151 6,370
Table 3.     VK HQ Stations
Other VK QSOs BCA Score
VK2/G3VYI 114 52 2,240
VK7GN 119 45 2,000
VK4XY 59 33 1,380
VK4TT 45 25 1,000
VK5IR 37 23 890
VK3YE 22 15 525
VK2CCC 20 12 445
VK6WX 11 8 250
VK2GZ 8 7 200
VK6RZ 6 6 150
VK3TZ Checklog
Table 4.     VK Stations
ZL Logs QSOs BCA Score
ZM2B 257 92 4,085
ZL3PAH 242 93 3,985
ZL4TT 236 75 3,615
ZL3AL 174 71 2,950
ZL3GA 138 58 2,535
ZL2RX 125 52 2,295
ZL1IF 191 41 1,855
ZL3VZ 77 39 1,495
ZM1M 73 30 1,250
ZL3AB 46 26 985
ZL1T 21 15 485
ZL2AIM 13 11 320
ZL1TM Checklog
Table 5.     ZL Stations
Australia1.BERU2020[1]
Australia2.BERU2020[1]
AustraliaHQ.BERU2020[1]

Regards,
Allan Mason, VK2GR
Mobile: +61 401 324 058

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