2008 SARL HF Phone Contest results

Forty-one contest logs and 2 check logs were received for the South African Radio League (SARL) HF Phone Contest.

Thirty-nine logs qualified for the lucky draw of the 2008 ARRL Handbook. The winner of the 2008 ARRL Handbook is John Green, ZS1JHG, of Fish Hoek. Congratulations John!

The results of the contest are as follows:

Multi-operator:
1st West Rand ARC, ZS6WR, 122 points.

Single Operator:
1st Gary Potgieter, ZS5NK, [Highway ARC] 223 points;
2nd Jan Botha, ZS4JAN, [Bloemfontein RAC] 219 points;
3rd Marinus Willemstijn, ZS6MAW, 192 points;
4th Roger Jones, ZS6RJ, [Pretoria ARC] 168 points;
5th Philip Esterhuizen, ZU4PE, [Bloemfontein RAC] 161 points.

The complete results have been published in HF Happenings 318.

On Sunday 14 September, the Spring QRP Contest will be on the air from 15:00 to 17:00 CAT. It is a phone and CW contest on the 40-metre band and the exchange is a RS or RST report and the operator's age. Only wire antennas may be used.

The second leg of the SARL VHF/UHF Contest will be run from 12:00 CAT on Saturday 20 September to 12:00 CAT on Sunday 21 September. FM, SSB, CW and Digital modes may be used on 6, 4 and 2 metres, 70 and 23 cm and higher frequencies as per the band plan. The exchange is call signs, signal report and six-digit grid locator.

The rules in the 2008 SARL Contest Manual are the only official rules.

Logs must be sent to The Contest Committee, Box 12104, Brandhof, 9324, or by e-mail to hfcontests@netactive.co.za.

The South African Radio League