ARI International DX Contest 2021

DX Results

Dear Contesters,

it is a great pleasure to present you the DX Results of the ARI International DX Contest 2021.

For the second year, participation was great, especially on DX side! Overall 2124 logs have been received (last year with many countries in lockdown they were 2145), divided between 1652 DX logs (new record for DX logs)  and 472 Italian one. The condition this year were once again bad, as the only usable bands for DX QSOs were 20m and 40m, 15m shows some small EU-EU opening but few people belived on it and low bands were also in good shape.

The SWL log received were 15, divided in 10 logs from DX site and 5 Italians.

In the following pages you will find the overall results by Contest Categories and then, the same results, by Country and Categories to make it easier to see what your result has been against the rest of the world or within your own country.

Now let’s have a look at the results.

In the Multi Operator Single TX the lead was taken by ON6LEO (op: ON6LEO ON6NL) followed by EA1TL (op: EA1TL EA4AOC), which gains the second place, and YL1ZX (op: YL2TD YL2EM) in third place. In the Multi Operator Multi TX  RA5G (op: R3GM RJ3FF UI5R UG3G R5RA R0AI) take the first place while OZ5E (op: A41CK OZ1ETA OZ1JUX) finished second.

In the Single-Operator CW HP category Sergey P3X (op: 5B4AMM) takes the first place and set a new category record, while Per SM2M (op. SM2LIY) finishes second and Yuris YL7A (op: YL2GM) get the third place. In the SO CW LP the first place goes to Kaspars YL1ZF¸ just above Vladimir EU8U which takes the second place and the third place goes to Silviu YO4NF.

In the Single-Operator Mixed HP category Arvis YL7X (op: YL2LY) win the first position even if with lower QSO number compared to the second place which goes to Alex UR7GO; the third place goes to Boyko LZ1QN. In the SO MIX LP, Alexander RG5A wins and takes the first place, while Ingemar SE5E (op: SM5AJV) takes the second place and Rimantas LY5I finishes in the third place.

In the SO RTTY HP category Atanas LZ9R (op: LZ3YY) takes the first repeating the last year winning; the second place was taken by Laszlo HG5D (op: HA8QZ), while Vlad UA6CE gets the third. In the SO RTTY LP Yarovoj UW1M wins and places a new category record beating last year winner and record holder, Pavlo, UX1VT, which finishes second place while Vladimir  RA3Y gets the third place.

In the Single-Operator SSB section Valery, YL3CW, wins; Marius YP0C (op: YO3CZW) confirms the last year second place and Sergey, RW1F, last year winner, gets the third position. In the Single Operator SSB Low Power category, Jaroslaw SO7E takes the first place, Alex UY1IP takes the second place and David 4X6DK finishes in third place;

In the SWL category, Roman OK1-31457 takes the win, while Jean-Paul SM/VE9BK finishes second and the third place goes to Gene R4C-7.

In the next page you will found the complete results table and the operator list. At the end of the results tables you will be able to read what the participants wrote in their SOAPBOX: DX QRM!!

Next year rules will be published soon on the ARI website. No rules change is planned for next year.

The “ARI International DX Contest” contest could not be the same without the participation of the DX station, so thanks to all for participating!

Next year edition will be held the 7^th and 8^th of May 2022, please bookmark these dates on the calendar!

73,

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Filippo Vairo, IZ1LBG
A.R.I. HF Contest Manager