Contests

In the weekend of 28 and 29 October we had the last SLP Contest of this year, The winner was the Durch SWL NL6904 with a score of 30785. Second placed was NL294, scoring 16560 and the German SWL DE2HUG became third with a score of 8505. NL6904 is also the winner of this year's SLP Competition.

This year the 28MHz SWL Contest, sponsored by the VERON SWL section, will be held in the weekend of 9 and 10 December 2017. That is the same weekend of the ARRL 10Meter Contest.

The rules of the contest can be found on: http://swl.veron.nl/swlcontest.htm.

Hopefully the propagation on 10M will be more favourable than in past Decembers!

Anyhow: happy contest.

73, Ruud Ivens, SWL contest manager VERON.

The winner of this year's seventh SLP Contest, in the weekend of 14 and 15 October, is the Dutch SWL Sjuk Veenstra, NL6904, with a score of 7182. Second placed is Kees Schout, NL294, scoring 7095, and third became Johan Heus, NL9723, with 6201 points.

The winner of this year's 6th Short Listening Period (SLP) contest is the Dutch SWL Sjuk Veenstra, NL6904, with a score of 5978. Second placed is Johan Heus, NL9723, scoring 4264, and third became Marc Stinkens from Belgium, ONL4638, with a score of 3870.

The complete result list and the provisional ranking of the SLP Competition is available on: http://swl.veron.nl/swlcontest.htm. There you also can find the rules of the SLP Contest series.

The winner of this year's 5th Short Listening Period (SLP) Contest is Kees Schout, NL294, with a score of 11844. Second placed is Alex Gorbunov, US-Q-73, scoring 9375 and Helmut Grund, DE2HUG, became third with a score of 9317 points.

Sjuk Veenstra, NL6904, is still leading in de SLP competition 2017.

The complete result tables are available on: http://swl.veron.nl/swlcontest.htm. There you also may find the rules of the SLP Contest series and other SWL contests managed by the Dutch Radioamateur Association, VERON.

The 4th Short Listening Period Contest (SLP) of this year is won by Sjuk Veenstra, NL6904, with a score of 5610. Second became Marc Stinkens, ONL4638, scoring 4840, and third placed is Alex Gorbunov, US-Q-73, with 3910 points. After four contests NL6904 is still leader in the SLP Competition 2017.

The winner of this year's third SLP Contest, held in the weekend of 25 and 26 March, is Sjuk Veenstra, NL6904, with a score of 14784. Also the next two places are for Dutch SWL's. Second place for Kees Schout, NL294, and third became Johan Heus, NL9723.

Runner up is the 12 year old Czech SWL, Vit Sirucka, OK2-36449. He ended fourth scoring 5777 points.

The results of the 28MHz SWL Contest, held in the weekend of 10 and 11 December 2016, are available now. Due to the very poor propagation on the 10M band, there was very low activity from the SWL's.

In the CW category we found only one SWL active: Johan Heus, NL9723, and of course he is the winner of that category.

In the category Phone we found in total just 4 SWL's. The winner in the Phone category is Kees Schout, NL294. Also the places two and three are for Dutch SWL's. The fourth place was for the Spanish SWL Antonio Martinez Mendoza, EA3248URE.

The second VERON Short Listening Period Contest of this year is won by the Dutch SWL Johan Heus, NL9723, with a score of 4158. Second placed Sjuk Veenstra NL6904, scoring 4080, and third became Marc Stinkens, ONL4638, from Belgium with 2257 points.
The complete result table and the provisional ranking of the SLP Competition is available on: . There you also can find the rules of the SLP Contest series (8 times a year).
73, Ruud, NL290, SWL Contest Manager VERON.

Herewith I will inform you about the result of this year's first VERON Short Listening Period contest (SLP).

First placed is Sjuk Veenstra, NL6904, with a score of 6420.
Second place for Johan Heus, NL9723, scoring 5658 points and third became Helmut Grund, DE2HUG.
The complete result table is available on: .
There you also can find the rules of the SLP contest series (8 times throughout the year) and information about the other SWL contests sponsored by the Dutch Radio Amateur association, the VERON.