SRCC LEAGUE TABLE – MARCH 2025
There were five entries for March 2025, one up on February and all from the “usual suspects”. The monthly listing is as follows:
| ENTRANT | WORKED DXCC / SQUARE | WORKED SRCC MEMBER | WORKED IN CONTEST | POINTS THIS MONTH |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| G4FFY | 53 | 48 | 164 | |
| M0CGF | 64 | 128 | ||
| G4FYF | 33 | 1 | 68 | |
| G3WRR | 16 | 16 | 48 | |
| M0LEP | 1 | 1 | 4 |
The following notes are provided by the entrants…
G4FFY: Activity in March on VHF included operating in the 2m and 70cm UKACs, 70cm AFS, 2m and 70cm FT8 contests, and the 144-432MHz March Contest. On HF operated in the 80m Club Calls SSB Contest, the March FT4 HF Contest, plus general HF FT8 operation. DXCC’s worked stayed at 165 during March.
M0CGF: My March entry was cut short due to extensive garden work! Finally got round to getting it levelled and drainage plus more importantly all my coax and control cables nicely routed underground to the antenna site from the shack. So can operate without having to dangle wires through an open window! Plus managed to bury a fair few radials under the new turf. I now need to take the verticals down and adjust them as the radials have taken effect and tightened up the bandwidth. Managed to get a 2inch extension bracket and added a 6ft scaffold pole to the 6m beam so that’s up at around 8m now. Hoping to give it a run out on the 6m UKAC this week.
I noticed from this location its quite quiet to the north, east and south, but beaming back through the houses which is west the noise comes up. Just hope it doesn’t affect the USA direction, as my last place was the opposite to this, rubbish the the north, east, OK south and excellent out west.
G4FYF: Pathetic effort for most of March then fun with CQ WWW WPX contest over the last weekend added a bit of respectability. A simple, worldwide contest with loads of activity on all contest friendly bands. My highlights were Cayman Islands and Uruguay on 10m.
G3WRR: As usual all the contacts were contest based….in this case the Commonwealth Contest. Won’t say much here as I’m aiming to do a separate item on it in this issue. The bad news is that there aren’t that that many active Commonwealth countries left to work – but the good news is that some of the ones that do come on are quite exotic!
M0LEP: I’m a mite jet-lagged, having fled UK shores by air on the morning the clocks changed (which, of course, meant leaving for the airport an hour earlier) and then spent the best part of 17 hours travelling 15kkms to Perth WA for a family holiday with my sister. It remains to be seen whether I’ll manage any radio time whilst here, but I have plans. With a bit of luck April’s league table entry will contain contacts involving VK/M0LEP/P. Meanwhile, here is my somewhat minimalist entry for March. I did get on the air a bit, but only on 80 metres, and only in order to talk to folks in the home DXCC, and all but one of those contacts were not SRCC members. 😉
| ENTRANT | JAN | FEB | MAR | APR | MAY | JUN | JUL | AUG | SEP | OCT | NOV | DEC | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M0CGF | 146 | 223 | 128 | 369 | 497 | ||||||||
| G4FFY | 138 | 165 | 164 | 303 | 467 | ||||||||
| G4FYF | 40 | 22 | 68 | 62 | 130 | ||||||||
| M0LEP | 6 | 30 | 4 | 36 | 40 | ||||||||
| G3WRR | 30 | 68 | 30 | 98 |
The Solar Flux Index (SFI) shown on the excellent Solar Ham website has now been on a downward trend for the seventh consecutive month and has dipped below the forecast level for the first time although the HF bands are still holding up quite well.
73, Quin G3WRR SRCC Leaguemeister