SRCC LEAGUE TABLE – NOVEMBER 2023
Entries for October were up by one to seven: good to have a submission from Ian M0CGF who has been overseas with work. The month’s listing is as follows: positions are identical to September with the exception of the welcome return if Ian.
ENTRANT | WORKED DXCC / SQUARE | WORKED SRCC MEMBER | WORKED IN CONTEST | POINTS THIS MONTH |
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G3WRR | 69 | 69 | 207 | |
G4FFY | 68 | 1 | 27 | 165 |
G3ZPB | 30 | 1 | 25 | 85 |
M0CGF | 40 | 80 | ||
G4FYF | 20 | 1 | 42 | |
M0LEP | 7 | 1 | 16 | |
G4WGE | 1 | 2 |
The following notes come from the entrants…
G3WRR: First significant entry in the league table for a long time. But the CQWW CW contest is a really good opportunity for picking up interesting stuff and too good to miss. 10m (and to a lesser extent 15m) were in sparkling shape but the lower bands quite quiet. Only UK DXCCs worked were G & GD!
G4FFY: Was a lower activity month compared to the previous month as didn’t operate in the 2m and 70cm UKAC’s. Did partake in the 2m and 70cm FT8 AC’s, and the HF FT4 contest. 10m was good with plenty of USA stations to work. Also dabbled on 160m with both FT8 and also SSB during the Club Calls Contest using my not very efficient 20m end-fed. Did work Greece (SV3EXP) on 160m FT8 with a distance of some 2200km, whilst managed 412km during the Club Calls Contest working G7RAU. As at end-November 2023 I’m still on 160 DXCC’s, no new DXCC’s were added in November.
G3ZPB: Only 86 points this month – all FT4 and FT8, mostly during the RSGB HF (40m & 20m) and 70cms contests plus some activity on 10m FT4 (yes, it’s nice to be able to use 10m again for DX) ????. And nothing very exotic????.
G4FYF: Two contacts with the Americas on 10 meters which then seemed to stop playing! Rest is usual Europeans on 40 and 20.
M0LEP: Not much to show for November, but I only had 12 QSOs, 9 from Kenya and 3 from UK, so it’s more than one point per QSO...
G4WGE: Please accept my 2023 entry for the SRCC League Table…..
24/11/2023 1625 3502kHz 4W8X CW 599 599. Helps to have full power and an 80m 4-square ????.
(This may be a single contact, but boy is it a good one! Timor Leste (formerly East Timor and located between Australia and Indonesia) is a rarity at the best of times, but on 80m….wow).
Moving on to the annual cumulative listing, as expected at this time of the year there is no change in positions.
JAN | FEB | MAR | APR | MAY | JUN | JUL | AUG | SEP | OCT | NOV | DEC | TOTAL | |
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ENTRANT | |||||||||||||
G4FFY | 155 | 213 | 95 | 109 | 427 | 394 | 309 | 157 | 214 | 231 | 165 | 2569 | |
G3ZPB | 43 | 150 | 131 | 94 | 126 | 134 | 59 | 69 | 125 | 111 | 85 | 1117 | |
M0CGF | 70 | 84 | 109 | 110 | 162 | 40 | 102 | 16 | 80 | 773 | |||
G4FYF | 24 | 38 | 100 | 48 | 30 | 48 | 76 | 50 | 42 | 62 | 42 | 586 | |
G3WRR | 63 | 21 | 21 | 32 | 102 | 84 | 12 | 207 | 542 | ||||
M0LEP | 71 | 40 | 46 | 26 | 44 | 40 | 12 | 16 | 24 | 28 | 16 | 331 | |
G7RUX | 74 | 74 | |||||||||||
G4LZE | 46 | 12 | 58 | ||||||||||
G3EUE | 10 | 10 | 20 | ||||||||||
G4WGE | 2 | 2 |
Solar cycle 25 seems to be faltering, with the SFI dropping for the third consecutive month, in line with predictions that the current cycle might be ending in 2024 rather than 2025 as previously expected. But all is not doom and gloom as the percentage fall is still quite small, and conditions on the HF bands in the recent CQWW CW contest were sparkling. Fingers crossed!
73, Quin G3WRR – SRCC Leaguemeister