Perhaps my biggest enjoyment on amateur radio is contesting. It is an opportunity to challenge yourself both physically (remaining awake) and mentally (testing your propagation knowledge, operating skills and managing pileups). Taking a holiday and operating from remote areas can also help with the scores.
Below are a few of the contests I have operated in over the years. I don’t use a linear and these are a mix of 100watts and QRP.
Also using fairly modest home made wire antennas ranging from a 600′ loop, parallel dipoles, coaxial dipoles, moxon rectangle, end fed and only one contest did I use a 3 element tri-bander.
That said, I recently purchased a Prosistel PST1524TV inverted V dipole. It is very good on 40m and 15m, pretty good on 20m but a little deaf on 10m.
Contest Results
| YEAR | CALL | CONTEST | MODE | CLASS | RESULT |
| 1990 | ZC4BS | CQWW | SSB | SO AB LP | 2nd Asia |
| 1991 | ZC4BS | IARU | MIX | SO AB LP | 6th World |
| 1991 | ZC4BS | CQWW | SSB | SO AB LP | 1st World Asian Record World Record |
| 1993 | G4KIV | IARU | MIX | SO AB LP | 1st Great Britain |
| 1994 | G4KIV | CQWW | SSB | SO AB LP | 1st Great Britain |
| 1995 | G4KIV | CQWW | SSB | SO AB LP | 1st Great Britain 4th Europe |
| 1996 | G4KIV | CQWW | SSB | SO AB LP | 1st Great Britain 1st Europe 6th World |
| 1996 | G4KIV | CQWW | CW | SO AB LP | 1st Great Britain 2nd Europe |
| 2000 | ZC4BS | CQWW | CW | SO SB 10 LP | 2nd Asia |
| 2001 | ZC4BS | CQ WPX | SSB | SO AB LP | 1st Asia 3rd World |
| 2001 | ZC4BS | ARI | SSB | SO SB 15 LP | 1st Asia 4th World Asian Record |
| 2001 | ZC4BS | SP DX | MIX | SO SB 15 LP | 2nd Asia 3rd World |
| 2001 | ZC4BS | ALL ASIAN DX | SSB | SO SB 15 LP | 1st World |
| 2001 | ZC4BS | WAE | SSB | SO AB LP | 1st Asia |
| 2001 | ZC4BS | CQWW | CW | SO SB 15 LP | 1st Asia |
| 2001 | ZC4BS | ARRL 10 | MIX | SO LP | 1st Asia 3rd World |
| 2002 | ZC4BS | RUSSIAN DX | SSB | SO SB 15 LP | 9th World |
| 2002 | ZC40BS | RSGB JUBILEE | SSB | SO AB LP | 1st ZC4 |
| 2002 | ZC4BS | ARI | CW | SO AB LP | 1st Asia |
| 2002 | ZC4BS | CQ WPX | CW | SO AB QRP | 1st World Asian Record |
| 2004 | M0IPX | CQWW | CW | SO 80 LP | 1st Great Britain |
| 2004 | G6M | CQWW | CW | SO 20 LP | 2nd EU 1st Great Britain |
| 2005 | M0IPX | RUSSIAN DX | CW/SSB | SO AB LP | Zone 14 Winner Plaque awarded |
| 2005 | G6M | CQWW | CW | SO 20 LP | 1st Great Britain 2nd Europe 5th World |
| 2020 | G4KIV | CQWW | CW | SO 15 LP | 1st Great Britain |
| 2021 | G4KIV | CQWW | RTTY | SO 15 LP | 2nd UK |
| 2021 | G4KIV | CQWW | SSB | SO 15 LP | 1st Great Britain |
| 2021 | G4KIV | RSGB 160M | CW | SO 160 LP | 14th overall 5th low power |
| 2021 | G4KIV | CQWW | CW | SO 10 LP | 3rd UK |
| 2022 | G1G | RSGB DX | CW | SO AB LP (missed 80m) | 4th UK {2nd in cw} |
| 2022 | G1G | CQWW | SSB | SO 15 QRP | 1st Great Britain 6th Europe 9th World (England record) |
| 2022 | G1G | CQWW | CW | SO AB QRP | 1st England 6th Europe 9th World (England record) |
| 2023 | G1G | CQWW | WPX | SO 15 QRP (C) | 1st England 5th Europe 7th World (World #1 classic) |
| 2023 | G1G | CQWW | RTTY | SO 10 QRP | |
