SP DX Contest 2008

Here we have the final results of the SP DX Contest 2008. Thanks for participation in the SP DX Contest 2008, in our single-country event, which still gathers a lot of interest thanks to you: contesters from all over the world.

The SP DX Contest 2008 was a Jubilee Contest. We were celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the first edition of the contest. Thanks to all participants for being a part of our very special HAM radio event.

The final results of the SP DX Contest 2008 were presented in October 18 during the annual Meeting of the SP DX Club. Full contest story and comments will be published here on the website very soon. We are also preparing the PDF version of the final results.

Number of awards in each country and category depends on the number of participants. We decided to use the following routine:

Number of participants	Number of awards
1 - 4	1
5 - 9	2
10 - 14	3
15 - 20	4
21 - 30	5
31 - 40	6
41 - 50	7
51 - 60	8
61 - 70	9
> 70	10

Maximum 10 awards were awarded in a category. In general there are 576 awards in all countries/categories.

TROPHIES, PLAQUES, SPECIAL AWARDS

Every year we have special trophies or plaques sponsored for the best scores in a category, best CW score, best score from a continent etc. The awarded "category" is always the decision of a donor. Sponsored "categories" are not the same as contest categories. We have trophies for the best continental scores, best YL score etc. This year the following plaques were donated:

Other awards:

• Sponsored by the SP DX Club
  • 10 jubilee SP DX Contest T-shirts drawn at random between all participants from outside Poland in all multiband categories. The winners are: VK3PA, RU3WR, UA9QGS, DL4CF, DL5YL, PI4HQ, IV3IFN, RN4AM, UT8NT, LX1ER.
  • 10 jubilee SP DX Contest T-shirts drawn at random betwenn all participants from Poland in all multiband categories. The winners are: SN5S, SP3SLO, SP7BCA, SP9OHL, SP5OAG, SQ1EIC, SP2EPV, SN3C, SP8IMG, SN3R.
  
  
• Sponsored by the CoolQSL
  • 1000 full color QSL cards drawn at random between all participants in SOAB categories from outside Poland. The winner is IZ7CDB
  
  
• Sponsored by the K-ART Studio
  • 1000 full color QSL cards drawn at random between participants from British Isles. The winner is M0DZK.
  
  
• Sponsored by the Robert SP5XVY
  • 50 x 1000 full color QSL Cards drawn at random between participants from Poland. The winners are: SN2R (Op. SP2QCR), SN9Y (Op. SP9UOP), SP0DKI, (Op. SP2DKI), SP2DMB/3, SP2EUI, SP2FUD, SP2GWH, SP2HGV, SP3AFO, SP3CGK, SP3DTB, SP3FAR, SP3FGR, SP3IOE, SP3LD, SP3TYF, SP4FKS, SP4ICP, SP4JEU, SP5EIN, SP5IVC, SP5MXZ, SP5X, SP5XO, SP5XSD, SP6BOW, SP6IHE, SP6YAQ, SP6ZDA, SP7CVW, SP8BRE, SP8DHM, SP8JWE/8, SP8XXN, SP9CTX, SP9CVY, SP9LAS, SP9NRU, SP9PDF, SP9RI, SP9XCJ, SQ1FYX, SQ2NI, SQ2RDX/5, SQ3XBC, SQ6ADL, SQ6GGT, SQ9LOM, SQ9QT
  • 50 x 1000 full color QSL Cards drawn at random between participants from outside Poland. The winners are: DG1DRS, DL2SAX, DL4CM, DL7ET, DL8AAM, E78DX, ES1IP, EV6M, EW8CY, G7SVI, HA1CW, HA2EOA, HB9DGV, JK1LUY, LA9Z, LY1CM, N3GJ, OH6IO, OZ3ANT, PA0JED, PA1WLB, PA7PYR, PD1DX, PY4FQ, RA1AR, RA4HMT, RK1NA, RV3FD, RW4PL, RX9DC, S56DX, SU9NC, SV2FLQ, TA0U, UA3XAG, UA6HCA, UA6HHE, UA6NZ, UN7CN, UN7MMM, UR4UGL, UR5MAF, UR5WHQ, UR5ZVJ, US0YW, UT1KWA, UV5QQ, VK7GN, W1END, YL2II
    * if more than 1000 QSOs were made in the contest: the number of printed QSL cards = the number of QSOs
  
  
• SP3SWJ, SP8NTH i SP-QRP Group
  • VNA Max 6 Antenna Analyser for the Top Score in SP in SOAB MIXED QRP. The winner is SP9NSV/7.
  
  

SP DX Contest 2008. Countries and Number of Participants

There are: 1932 participants who submitted their logs. Logs came from 76 countries.

SP DX Contest 2008. Checklogs

Thanks for sending your logs for checking purposes. It helped us a lot to check the accuracy of sumbitted contacts. Please note that logs without all required information were also used only for checking purposes. The list of checklogs for SP DX Contest 2008 is as follows:
2E0PLA, 4L1AE, BA3CE, DG8VE, DK3PM, DL1BZA, DL1MDU, DL2IH, DL4NTC, DL7VMM, DO1CDE, EI2XX, F5LMW, HA1CW, HA1SN, HA2EOA, HB9RE, IN3QBR, IZ5MOQ, LA9KPA, LZ1IKY, LZ9W, M0RLM, MW/SP4FCP, N1NN, N4GG, NX2PX/M, OH3GZ, OH5NE, OH6IO, OH8US, OK7U, ON3ND, PA0RBO, PA3CRC, PE1IKN, RC4Q, RL3DJ, RV3FU, SN5M, SN5S, SP1BLE, SP1DMD, SP1EHI, SP1FVG, SP1KIZ, SP2EXE, SP2FAP, SP2NJC, SP2QCU, SP2ZAO, SP3CGK, SP3JUN, SP3QYQ, SP3SLO, SP3SWJ, SP4IQG, SP4SAF, SP5AAJ, SP5AHY, SP5DU, SP5EZJ, SP5HNK, SP5JXK, SP5LCG, SP5PBE, SP6BOW, SP6CCI, SP6EUA, SP6FXY, SP6GPJ, SP6HDQ, SP6KYU, SP6NVN, SP6OWA, SP75N, SP75O, SP75S, SP7HOV, SP7HQ, SP7PGK, SP7RJI, SP8AJK, SP8DYM, SP8GRS, SP8JMA, SP8QEM, SP8WJW, SP9CTX, SP9CVY, SP9FZC, SP9IHP, SP9MRP, SP9ODY, SQ2HI, SQ4HRN, SQ4INW, SQ5TA, SQ6FHP, SQ6LAW, SQ6OR, SQ7IL, SQ8JCB, SQ8JMC, SQ9CAZ, SQ9NIU, UA2FFX/1, UA9CCL, UA9HR, UR4UGL, UR7QM, VE3FDT, VE3OM, VE3OWW, VK2GND, YO8TOH, YR1C,

Thanks for participation in SP DX Contest 2008. We hope to see you callsign next time also.
 
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SP DX Contest Committee