432MHz Cumulative Contest 1997
Single Operator Normalised Results
        Points Points Points Points Points    
 Call Score Ant Pwr 10/10 27/10 11/11 26/11 11/12 Best DX Km
1. G8FBG* 3000 4x28el Y 400w 5626 5411 4054 4790 3167 DG5DCR 538
2. PA0GHB* 2982 30el Y 200w 2831 3637 6507 4703 3735 OZ1SDB/P 574
3 G8NEY* 1987 2x21el 200w 3238 4342 0 1645 2276 DC9KU 585
4. G8CRN 1800 4x17 el 100w 2535 3255 1263 2718 2358 DL5KCI 425
5 G3MEH 1499 2x19el T 25w 0 3430 3126 1845 1316 DG1KJG 550
6. G0GCI 1129 21el Y 120w 1806 1744 705 1996 1457 DC9KU 404
7 G0ODQ 1083 21el Y 100w 2052 2421 0 1297 949 PA0GHB 332
8 G3YHF* 989 19el T 20w 1839 1679 1527 0 1315 PA0GHB 416
9. G3FIJ* 717 21el Y 10w 1483 1347 0 975 0 G1KHX 271 

All Other Section Normalised Results
        Points Points Points Points Points    
 Call Score Ant Pwr 10/10 27/10 11/11 26/11 11/12 Best DX Km
1. G8OHM* 3000 26el Y 400w 2044 4469 3451 3883 3042 PA0WMX 523
2. G4DDL/P* 2371 19el T 25w 2329 3205 2258 0 1337 PA0WWM 365 
* Certificate winners.

This year the South Birmingham Radio Society, G8OHM, continued with their winning team and won the “All Other” section ahead of G4DDL/P. Peter Tribe, G8FBG, won the single operator fixed station section by stint of winning three sessions. The Runner up certificate goes to D Millard, G8NEY, with Gerard Vervenne, PA0GHB, being awarded the leading overseas station certificate.
Several novice stations were recorded in entry logs but there were no entries to claim certificates for the leading and second highest novice operators.
Chris Skelcher, G3YHF, won the single operator running 25 watts to a single antenna ahead of Frank Howe, G3FIJ who produced a flawless log for the three sessions in which he operated, in second place. Conditions were generally considered to be poor with the second session marginally best and many entrants commented on the low numbers of stations active which prompted G8CRN to suggest that the duration of the sessions might be shortened to two hours each.
One station, (session winner,) logged a best DX which would have been very good except that the Locator claimed was not within the country of the contact ! This complicated things for the adjudicator as the loss of points for this contact resulted in changes to the normalised scores of several stations.

Ian L Cornes. G4OUT.