4TH EUROPEAN HF CHAMPIONSHIP 1997 EUHFC becomes one of the most interesting and attractive HF contest. That prove comments from competitors and increasing number of participants. This year we have received 370 logs what shows more than 20% increase against last year. The number of call signs in our data base, coming out from 150 computerized logs (not existed calls are extracted) counts 2900. Out of them 900 are shown only once, 1000 are in logs more than twice and 1000 between 10 and 380 times. The data shows that number of participants (especially in SSB category) are just random and surprisingly give valuable points and special multipliers,too. Wrong given reports are now very rare which means that EUHFC is widely known also among non-contest community. This year's contest shows noticeable increase of participants in CW category (181 logs), decrease interest for MIX category (only 54 logs) and comparable SSB category with last year (106 logs). There were 27 SWL and check logs this year. We have provided E-mail submission of the logs first time and about 15% of all logs came that way. European HF champion for 1997 is Ben, DL6FBL, the winner of MIX category who was the only one to gain more than 300k points, followed by Dan S50U operated from one of remote contest locations in Slovenia and Timo OH1MDR from well known OH1AF station. In CW category on highest three positions were three contesters who was on top list of mix category previous year. European CW champion is "Suomen poika", last year's champion Pasi, OH1MM (ex OH1NSJ), second is Girt YL8M (YL2KL) and third Dan LY6M (LY1DS). Both Girt and Dan are known from 96 WRTC. European SSB winner is Tine S53EA behind the mike of S50L contest location, followed by EUHFC faithful Enzo IK6BOB. Third is Goran S55OO from another S5 contest mountain location of S50C. National list is won again by S5 contesters against UA, last year's winners from LY come on third position out of 32 participating countries. It seems that S5 remote hilltop locations showed their value at the bottom of the sunspot cycle. Between others, it is very interesting SWL report from Tine SV5/S50A who could not operate from Greece islands but listened contest activity with small AM receiver on the beaches. Although claimed scores showed possible new records in MIX and CW category (three scores claimed over 400k points), neither one reached new record. Results of winners are even lower than those from previous year. The reason is in computer log checking procedure, this year not only for call signs but also for reports.Except for "U" (unique), "B" (bad) and "N" (not in log) we have checked also "WR" (wrong report) and extract also points for all contacts where report was not received correctly. It is amazing but about two third of mistakes come out from this source. We have found two types of mistakes here. One, where received number is close to real one and it means that operator copied one number wrong and two,reports which are by far from the right number. Final scores and results were in great extent decided by the accuracy of logging. Average of bad contacts were on the list of top ten stations 3,2% in MIX category, 3,4% for CW and even 4% for SSB. We could not accept and put on the list stations with more than 10% bad qsos. We haven't recognized ipossible multipliers (multipliers are last two digits of year when operator obtained his first licence). This rule is valid also for club stations and multiplier number is not the year when club was established but when licence of operator was obtained. Stations which will in future use impossible multiplier number will not be eligible for scoring and their multiplier number will be disqualified for all participants. After four years of EUHFC we have decided to change the rules slightly. We will add LOW POWER classification for all three categories (MIX, CW, SSB) and new SWL category. New demand will go to all contesters who will use computer loging and have more than 200 qsos. They will have to send in DISK or E-mailed log. Under consideration is also rule that someone who used computer for logging and will not send disk or E-mailed log could not be put on the score list. Rules are remaining the same on all essential parts. Again this time special thanks go to Mirko, S57AD, who put a very big effort into computer log checking procedure. Also thanks to Dan S50U who was willing to receive logs via E-mail and to all other SCC members who helped out with typing in logs without disk. Thanks also to all of you who took part in this interesting and nice contest event. CU in 1998! Franc Bogataj S59AA EUHFC director ------------------------------------------------------------- PLAQUE WINNERS CW/SSB CATEGORY: 1st place: Bernd Och, DL6FBL Donor: Radio Klub Cerkno - S50E 2nd place: Danilo Brelih, S50U Donor: Radio Klub Cerkno - S50E 3rd place: Timo Pohjola, OH1AF Donor: Radio Klub Cerkno - S50E CW CATEGORY: 1st place: Pasi Alanko, OH1MM Donor: Tine Brajnik, S50A 2nd place: Girts Budis, YL8M Donor: Slovenia Contest Club 3rd place: Dainius Savicius, LY6M Donor: Slovenia Contest Club SSB CATEGORY: 1st place: Tine Mlakar, S50L Donor: Franc Bogataj, S59AA 2nd place: Enzo Tancredi, IK6BOB Donor: Slovenia Contest Club 3rd place: Goran Andric, S50C Donor: Slovenia Contest Club ------------------------------------------------------------- RESULTS OF THE 4TH EUROPEAN HF CHAMPIONSHIP 1997 CW/SSB CATEGORY: CALL SCORE QSO Q-PTS MULT DL6FBL 339.087 827 1407 241 S50U 291.795 704 1191 245 OH1AF 277.312 860 1238 224 S51F 217.800 695 1100 198 *LY3BA 211.860 666 1070 198 EU1AZ 209.691 700 1013 207 LY5W 205.514 615 974 211 *9A5I 177.946 584 922 193 F5NBX 155.176 624 952 163 *OM3KII 136.040 554 760 179 UT0U 132.480 606 920 144 UA4WJF 130.938 644 834 157 LY2BN 117.822 510 807 146 UX1UA 117.216 518 814 144 G5LP 114.283 472 767 149 SP9KRT 95.456 396 608 157 EU4EU 93.440 390 584 160 *UX5EF 84.600 336 600 141 RK3UWA 75.400 380 580 130 *UT5UN 69.148 301 586 118 IK2ZVU 68.728 452 484 142 *UY5TE 68.608 297 536 128 EU1DQ 68.040 332 486 140 YU4WU 62.560 406 544 115 F6KZD 58.830 433 530 111 EA3ALV 39.270 219 357 110 *EW6XE 31.906 198 371 86 UY5ZZ 28.200 177 281 100 YU7KW 26.814 212 327 82 LZ1BJ 26.522 185 298 89 EW2AO 24.273 186 279 87 RA6ABK 23.772 208 283 84 *LY3DA 19.809 144 213 93 OM6KW 17.892 169 252 71 *SQ9DXN 17.220 152 205 84 *YL2GN 15.744 207 328 48 *DL2YAK 12.726 129 202 63 *Z38G 10.857 137 231 47 EA2CR 9.169 95 173 53 YU1HFG 8.487 146 207 41 *YO4ACC 6.674 72 142 47 *9A3CY 4.370 64 115 38 LY2IJ 3.955 63 113 35 *ON4CAS 3.360 54 84 40 *F5CWU 2.590 69 74 35 *UT5EGE 1.904 41 68 28 *S53G 1.595 39 55 29 *SP3XR 782 37 34 23 CW CATEGORY: OH1MM 346.550 824 1450 239 YL8M/YL2KL 321.846 802 1358 237 LY6M/LY1DS 312.336 687 1296 241 S59AA 310.670 691 1322 235 HA5MY 300.627 723 1296 232 I2VXJ 291.560 652 1220 239 RA6AX 276.716 689 1324 209 S58AM 272.904 653 1096 249 IZ2AVK 270.084 682 1268 213 OH4YR 264.092 727 1282 206 LY4AA 263.684 656 1156 228 LY2BM 256.096 640 1208 212 HA3OV 254.250 631 1130 225 *HA1CW 254.188 620 1166 218 UA6LTI 246.788 659 1198 206 OH6YF 237.720 647 1132 210 RW6HA 236.744 631 1172 202 OH2AQ 236.684 676 1106 214 S56A 230.282 590 1042 221 *YU7CB 230.256 571 1066 216 S55A 221.540 561 1060 209 YT7AO 218.790 579 990 221 *RA6LBX 208.800 619 1160 180 LY7A 208.740 596 980 213 UT1YZ 206.570 659 910 227 HA8VK 205.524 584 1038 198 RZ3FA 199.562 577 1034 193 SM3CVM 191.114 563 1022 187 *SP2QCH 186.626 525 998 187 DL9FBS 186.200 520 980 190 *YL1ZZ 177.848 488 946 188 IK0HBN 175.592 497 934 188 OK1RP 164.864 508 896 184 OH2BAG 164.736 505 858 192 HA8EK 164.832 512 808 204 *S57U 163.170 462 882 185 RU3FM 161.028 499 994 162 *DL2OBF 158.004 495 924 171 RZ3AZ 157.828 509 844 187 S51Z 155.014 509 866 179 UA4CCG 144.326 486 854 169 MX0ADJ 142.842 471 798 179 *S57XX 141.384 411 822 172 S59L 138.244 467 646 214 *OK1JOC 135.408 427 806 168 DL2NWK 132.460 445 716 185 DL1FDV 131.520 447 822 160 LY2NK 128.432 370 698 184 RN6AL 125.836 449 772 163 UX3FW 125.112 449 802 156 S53O 124.620 473 620 201 *S51AY 124.416 450 864 144 S57J 122.610 422 670 183 *UX2MF 116.920 412 740 158 *UA1OMS 111.954 421 794 141 *U5WF 111.556 406 668 167 *4N7CA 105.084 408 756 139 *LY2FE 103.934 346 662 157 RA6AF 96.472 417 778 124 *UT5UJY 92.750 298 530 175 *EW8OS 91.176 393 696 131 UR7QM 90.968 419 664 137 *S52FB 90.090 339 630 143 *S53MJ 86.500 328 500 173 *HA4YF 84.096 310 584 144 *9A2NO 83.712 363 654 128 LY2BZ 82.176 339 642 128 HA6NL 81.792 293 576 142 *YU7SF 81.664 335 638 128 *DL7VZF 80.256 304 608 132 *SP1AEN 79.856 334 644 124 *S57NW 78.090 336 570 137 *9A4RU 76.667 297 556 137 *DL3EFL 73.332 306 582 126 *ON4XG 71.120 280 560 127 *OM4DN 69.692 267 532 131 *IK2ULV 65.170 263 490 133 ON6ZX 59.148 297 558 106 *LY2FN 58.146 264 524 111 UR7MZ 58.140 261 510 114 *ON4ASW 57.250 235 458 125 *EU5F 56.772 325 498 114 HA3NU 56.628 242 484 117 *RK3AD 53.972 262 524 103 *RA3FH 53.536 245 478 112 LY3NJM 52.500 271 500 105 UR5UW 51.920 239 472 110 *UY5WA 51.788 245 484 107 *9A3VL 51.360 240 480 107 *M0BDW 49.268 242 436 113 *YU1RE 48.990 234 426 115 *LA5NJA 47.792 209 412 116 *F5TGW 47.276 226 446 106 *IK4WMH 42.532 217 434 98 *9A3QK 42.200 211 422 100 LY1CF 41.412 203 406 102 *HB9/NK6F 40.392 216 408 99 *UR3MP 40.068 189 378 106 LY1BX 39.900 229 380 105 *PA3GNO 39.324 174 348 113 *IT9DEC 38.608 281 508 76 EA5EU 38.448 238 432 89 *OM3II 38.016 198 396 96 *EA1FDO 37.280 239 466 80 9A1HBC 36.900 201 300 123 *YU1GN 34.680 170 340 102 *S51ZJ 32.712 180 348 94 *EW6BI 31.960 170 340 94 *G4OTY 31.140 182 346 90 *SP2UKB 30.968 196 392 79 *OM3CDN 30.940 176 340 91 *OM1AF 30.394 167 334 91 DL6UNF 29.896 202 404 74 *DL3ZAI 27.680 173 346 80 *UT1MW 27.200 203 400 68 *YL2KF 26.448 186 348 76 *ON6TJ 25.284 156 294 86 IK8TPJ 23.408 158 304 77 UT4HC 23.166 143 286 81 *EU6AA 22.400 140 280 80 *G6QQ 22.304 136 272 82 RW3FO 20.028 148 272 74 *HA9PB 18.240 120 240 76 *IT9ORA 17.784 117 234 76 *YO4ZF 17.760 120 240 73 *OH2LNH 17.712 135 216 82 *F2NZ 17.402 113 226 77 *9A3GU 15.900 106 212 75 *SP5XSB 15.872 129 256 62 *IK4UNH 15.478 109 218 71 DF2UQ 15.128 124 248 61 *YU1AR 15.000 100 200 75 *HA4YG 14.880 123 240 62 *OZ4FF 14.356 102 194 74 *OK1AOU 13.392 93 186 72 *SP8BAB 12.236 133 266 46 *DL4FDM 12.000 100 200 60 *UA4YG 11.844 94 188 63 *DL1LAW 11.400 100 200 57 *OZ8SW 11.392 89 178 64 *IS0UWX 10.450 98 190 55 LA5MT 8.928 72 144 62 *SP4CFG 8.346 107 214 39 *HB9RE 8.330 85 170 49 *SP3MY 8.008 80 154 52 *OZ/DL2HEB/P 7.072 71 136 52 *YU1CC 7.360 92 184 40 *UT5ECZ 6.720 84 168 40 *OK2AJ 6.642 81 162 41 US2VV 6.478 79 158 41 *LZ1MC 6.364 86 172 37 *TK/S53R 5.762 67 134 43 *LA2HFA 5.734 64 122 47 *OH2YL 5.670 81 162 35 *OE8HEK 5.568 61 116 48 *YO2GL 5.440 80 160 34 *IV3KCB 5.194 61 98 53 SM4SX 4.788 57 114 42 SP5FLA 4.340 65 124 35 *OM9TR 4.290 65 130 33 *IZ0AIS 3.432 52 104 33 *F2FX 3.024 42 84 36 *IK1ZVK 3.000 50 100 30 *OM3WQQ 2.842 49 98 29 *SP8FHJ 2.788 44 82 34 *LY3BAD 2.624 41 82 32 *IK0YUM 2.128 38 76 28 *OM3T 2.048 32 64 32 *UA6LAH 1.890 35 70 27 *DL2PY 1.768 34 68 26 EA1FBJ 1.260 30 60 21 *SP2QVS 1.132 28 56 22 *UR4EX 680 20 40 17 *RX6LIX 512 16 32 16 *OK1FRO 308 14 28 11 SSB CATEGORY: S50L/S53EA 124.740 687 594 210 IK6BOB 114.114 750 627 182 S50C/S55OO 88.784 574 496 179 9A7V 84.280 541 490 172 LY6K/LY3BS 83.694 547 481 174 EO6F 82.716 521 452 183 LY8X/LY1FF 75.255 594 435 173 S51TA 74.163 500 419 177 UA6LU 72.520 527 518 140 *LY1DT 59.059 431 413 143 S54E 57.038 415 361 158 LX4B/LX1KQ 56.560 494 404 140 LY3BH 52.050 497 347 150 OH6LNI 47.232 429 369 128 UR4EYN 47.625 429 381 125 T77WI 46.505 559 355 131 EA3FCQ 41.402 332 326 127 RA6LW 40.386 322 318 127 LY2IC 38.958 308 302 129 I1COB 38.253 388 311 123 *IZ7ATC 35.995 319 313 115 DL8OBQ 33.033 348 273 121 *YO5CYG 32.046 306 294 109 LY2DX 27.032 254 248 109 UA4CI 25.456 308 296 86 *IO4I 23.030 248 245 94 *YU1KN 23.028 237 228 101 EA1EAG 21.945 306 231 95 *9A6KCL 20.995 265 247 85 IK7YUA 20.398 229 217 94 *LY2WJ 19.840 248 239 80 *SP8OON 19.228 211 209 92 *IK3PQG 17.856 216 192 93 *F5AMH 17.204 190 187 92 LX1EP 16.456 199 187 88 *IK7YTT 16.352 233 224 73 UA3QOG 14.364 183 171 84 *ON4BCJ 14.520 173 165 88 *LX1JH 11.745 149 145 81 UR6MW 10.611 149 131 81 *YO5QAW 10.480 149 131 80 IK2RJZ 10.064 139 136 74 LZ5QZ 9.211 199 151 61 *UA3BL 8.976 256 204 44 *OK1DKS 8.694 129 126 69 *YU7KM 7.135 124 95 77 *IK7RVY 7.865 130 121 65 *EA4ATI/M 7.260 132 132 55 *SP6NVK 6.314 160 154 41 *DL1TS 6.060 104 101 60 *DL4RCK 6.050 113 110 55 *F5BMK 5.865 093 69 85 *IZ0AIM 5.850 098 090 65 *CT4MS 5.612 095 092 61 OK1AYD 5.292 144 126 42 SM7AIL 5.100 88 85 60 *ON7YP 5.016 88 88 57 *SP7FQI 4.902 86 86 57 *DL6DVU 4.830 124 115 42 *RA3LJ 4.560 86 80 57 *9A6ACY 3.920 80 80 49 *F2AR/P 3.618 76 67 54 *SP5NHI 3.600 75 75 48 *S53DX 3.312 81 72 46 *SP7EXJ 3.150 74 70 45 *IK8YFW 2.944 64 64 46 *EW8DA 2.904 69 66 44 *YO8BGE 2.880 67 64 45 *IK8WEI 2.806 61 61 46 IK2REA 2.640 60 60 44 *UT3MC 2.516 74 74 34 *F5JBF/P 2.436 64 58 42 EA7BVD 2.310 58 55 42 *OK1DOL 2.145 65 65 33 UT7MD 2.132 55 52 41 *S57MSU 2.040 80 68 30 *OM4KK 1.902 68 68 28 *S52ON 1.548 46 43 36 *F2RO 1.517 50 41 37 *S57NPR 1.457 65 47 31 *9A3ZO 1.224 39 36 34 *IK8IFW 1.224 54 51 24 *IK0STM 1.015 35 35 29 *EA1CJH 999 37 37 27 *CT1ELF 988 44 38 26 *EC5AKR 936 39 39 24 *G6RJ 888 37 37 24 *YO9AHX 808 35 35 23 *IK2VIW 777 37 37 21 *IK0UGC/8 640 32 32 20 *IK7WPD 475 25 25 29 *YO9GJY 460 29 23 20 *OM8CA 442 29 26 17 *SP9EH 442 26 26 17 *DL9JW 437 26 23 19 *IZ5AJP 396 25 22 18 *OK2WAZ 336 24 21 16 *SP1EOI 323 19 19 17 *EW4AB 289 18 18 17 *OZ8UW 195 15 15 13 *LY3BY 90 10 10 9 *SM7HSP 49 7 7 7 *LY2TZ 25 5 5 5 *LY3ZM 20 5 5 4 Stations with (*) declared low power operaton (100 W or less) Check and SWL logs: 9A3UF, 9A/DL3DRN, CT3AP, DL1JMS, DL1HSR, F5TIY, G8PW, I7ALE, IK2VUC, IK6IJF, IK6QOP, IK6XKA, IK6RFQ, LA/F8UFT, LY2OX, OH3MAF, S51ZY, S59D, S59W, SM7VZK, SM0NJO, SP8EAK, YO8KOS, YT1MP, YU1GR, YU1HA, Z39Z SP-0189-6D, SV5/S50A, UA3-155-28 Stations not clasfied on final list: EW6TU, HA1KRR, HA1KSQ, IK2VJF, IT9GXE, OK1DMS, RW3QC, S57NL, UA4AHT, UR5QN, UV7D, UX2MM, YT1BB ------------------------------------------------------------- NATIONAL COMPETITION LIST Slovenia S5 3.156.518 Russia UA 2.615.764 Lithuania LY 2.464.963 Finland OH 1.597.188 Ukraine UR 1.586.304 Hungary HA 1.435.057 Italy I 1.269.000 Germany DL 1.261.867 Yugoslavia YU 869.848 Belarus EW 632.851 Croatia 9A 597.474 Latvia YL 541.886 Poland SP 501.589 England G 360.725 Czech Rep. OK 337.081 Slovak Rep. OM 334.498 France F 314.938 Belgium ON 235.698 Sweden SM 201.051 Spain EA 200.279 Luxembourg LX 84.761 Romania YO 76.548 Norway LA 62.454 Sicily IT 56.392 Switzerland HB 48.722 San Marino T7 46.505 Bulgaria LZ 42.097 Netherlands PA 39.324 Denmark OZ 33.015 Sardinia IS 23.030 Macedonia Z3 10.857 Portugal CT 6.600 Corsica TK 5.762 Austria OE 5.568 -------------------------------------------------------- BAND-BY BAND BREAKDOWNS MIXED CW/SSB CATEGORY (QSO/MULT) ----------------------------------------------------------- CALL 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M ----------------------------------------------------------- DL6FBL 97/41 146/52 267/53 258/52 46/30 13/13 S50U 75/37 159/45 195/52 162/44 69/38 44/29 OH1AF 41/25 142/44 163/47 419/60 90/43 5/5 S51F 59/35 184/45 236/49 195/51 12/10 9/8 *LY3BA 64/31 137/44 165/47 259/51 39/23 2/2 EU1AZ 64/34 147/46 209/53 253/54 25/18 2/2 LY5W 83/40 108/45 150/50 247/51 18/17 9/8 *9A5I 45/29 177/46 176/48 154/47 30/21 2/2 F5NBX 1/1 119/48 185/54 313/55 6/5 OM3KII 49/33 192/47 209/53 98/40 6/6 CW CATEGORY (QSO/MULT) ------------------------------------------------------------ CALL 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M ------------------------------------------------------------ OH1MM 73/39 161/49 196/50 340/56 44/34 11/11 YL8M 97/43 181/52 231/56 248/52 39/29 6/5 LY6M 74/37 151/48 180/49 209/54 58/40 15/13 S59AA 66/37 151/48 217/53 184/52 54/29 19/16 HA5MY 71/40 201/51 233/55 173/50 36/28 9/9 I2VXJ 57/34 153/46 188/51 169/52 59/35 26/21 RA6AX 30/21 102/42 186/52 300/55 63/32 8/7 S58AM 90/42 134/46 182/50 153/52 56/33 38/26 IZ2AVK 55/31 169/49 228/51 192/54 35/25 3/3 OH4YR 60/35 118/41 187/48 324/55 29/19 9/8 SSB CATEGORY (QSO/MULT) ------------------------------------------------------------- CALL 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M ------------------------------------------------------------- S50L 48/30 133/40 261/49 194/49 29/23 22/19 IK6BOB 39/28 115/40 226/46 354/54 8/7 8/7 S50C 40/25 104/38 233/49 157/42 14/13 13/13 9A7V 18/16 54/27 256/50 179/53 24/17 10/9 LY6K 38/26 73/32 197/50 224/52 9/8 6/6 EO6F 43/27 96/35 128/40 213/48 28/21 13/12 LY8X 15/12 69/29 166/48 223/51 49/26 8/8 S51TA 18/14 135/44 179/46 130/42 23/17 15/14 UA6LU 20/16 88/35 194/44 98/34 9/9 2/2 *LY1DT 70/31 175/44 125/41 22/15 1/1 If you like to see results on Internet as HTML please visit our Slovenia Contest Club WEB page. Please fellow this address : http://lea.hamradio.si/~scc/euhfc.html Thank you again for email log submisson & CUL in EUHFC 1998 !! Any questions on results 1997 go to EUHFC Contest director Frane - S59AA: s59aa@s55tcp.ampr.org 73s fm Dan, S50U