Last updated: 2001-10-11 (not being maintained)

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For several years, I have received annual lists of British band country scores from my buddy Don Field G3XTT. He now runs the DX column in RadCom, the RSGB's magazine. I've always found these lists fascinating. In fact, when I started publishing band country scores for southern Africa in 1995, I decided to adhere to the same format (worked, current countries only) to make our tables directly comparable to theirs. The only exception is the fact that our list also includes 50 MHz, but the scores on that band are low enough to make the effect on totals relatively small.

Mixed Mode (29 stations)

Call    1.8  3.5   7    10   14  18    21   24   28  Total                   
		 												
G3KMA   249  300  327  315  333  328  332  317  329  2830                     
G4BWP   241  304  332  318  333  327  332  308  320  2815                     
G3XTT   231  276  316  281  332  309  329  290  307  2671                     
G3GIQ   150  245  302  260  333  314  331  293  323  2551                     
GW3JXN  177  250  289  279  325  314  311  284  291  2520
G4OBK   156  214  269  269  325  297  310  285  289  2414                     

Average  91  169  223  175  291  229  280  206  258  1922 (for 29 stations)

CW Only (17 stations)

G3KMA   243  279  324  315  332  321  330  302  318  2764
G3XTT   221  245  303  281  303  284  298  263  277  2475                     
G4BWP   212  218  286  317  287  297  283  273  238  2411                     
GW3JXN  174  219  273  279  302  298  296  260  264  2365                     
G3TXF   127  224  288  269  319  276  315  252  283  2353                     
G0NXX   169  232  276  282  292  281  272  255  259  2318                     

Average 121  173  237  228  276  237  269  214  241  1996 (for 17 stations)

Source: RadCom, journal of the RSGB. Editor G4JVG. Compiled by G3GIQ, provided in October 2001 by their DX Columnist, Don Field G3XTT.

I've included the Top Six in each table, but the averages are calculated across all stations listed in the original table. There were 29 and 17 stations on the Mixed and CW lists respectively.

There were 334 countries for this survey. You'll notice that several of the top stations on 14 MHz have 333 countries worked. They only need North Korea P5 on that band!

You'll notice that our top station on 30 just barely makes the average score for CW stations in the British table. You'll also notice that, while our high band scores are almost competitive, our low band scores are dismal. The reasons are not hard to understand if you've operated from Europe. Their low band conditions are a lot more tolerable, with very low static levels during the winter. Of course, the Northern winter is when most stations are active, so it makes a huge difference to the enjoyment of LF DXing...

I see one message in these tables: Southern African DXers have a lot of room for improvement!

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