The 68th RSGB Commonwealth Contest, 2005

摘要

Conditions were a bit mixed for this year's contest. Some entrants felt that conditions were better than expected at this point in the solar cycle, whilst others were very disappointed. In fact, as the solar flux chart shows, the contest coincided with a significant peak. Many found 10 metres absolutely dead, although some lucky (or skilful) souls found a good opening between the UK and Australia towards the end of the contest. Nonetheless, the lower frequency bands naturally provided a substantial proportion of the traffic, and overall scores are down from their peak of a few years ago. That said, the 174 entrants submitted logs containing details of a total of 26,739 separate QSOs, and 794 individual callsigns appear in the list of stations worked. The spread of activity across the five bands reveals no surprises - 80m provided 10% of the contacts, 40m 24%, 20m was the busiest with 38%, 15m gave 25% and a faltering 10m just 3%.