A healthy crop of entries were received for this one, with most entrants reporting that they enjoyed the contest, although not all managed to tap into the very sporadic E layer ionization available on the day. Most logs were of a high standard, although a couple of entrants will be surprised at the result after their entries were rescored by the adjudicator! Congratulations to the winners and runners up - your certificates will be on their way shortly.
Some comments from the logs
G3OHC: Happy memories of the 60s when I operated GW3OXD/P "tuning high to low" etc. How things have changed!
G4CZB: Hard work with fixed dipole running N-S!
G0OIW: My first attempt on 50MHz portable, results not bad for 5w into a dipole. Shame that condx were flat as a kipper's willy - some Es would have been nice.
G1ZJP: The lack of DX & the score says it all!
G4HLX/P: Very windy at my site, a struggle to get the antenna up, and I wasn't sure it was going to stay up (but it did!)
Midland CG: The weather was a bit mixed, but it all adds to the fun trying to assemble the beam whilst sheltering under the tailgate of a Mini Metro!!
Steve Redfern G4AEQ
Multi Operator Pos Group Call Locator QTH QSOs Score Mult Total ODX Kms Ant 1 Northern Lights CG GD0EMG IO74QD IM 149 57457 110 6320270 I0WTD 1861 2x7Y 2 Colchester CG G0VHF/P JO01GN SS 66 13727 67 919709 OH2AVP 1770 7Y 3 MIMRAM CG M0ABC/P IO91VS AL 54 9746 50 487300 OH2AVP 1793 3Y 4 Harwell ARS M1PIA IO91IN OX 55 7655 46 352130 ES7NY/0 1695 5Y 5 G3UDA & G3VWH GW3UDA/P IO82LQ SY 41 5752 43 247336 G3RPB 300 5Y 6 Midland CG G2HDF/P IO82UK DY 31 3008 30 90240 GD0EMG 245 3Y 7 Newquay & DARS G4ADV IO70LK TR 13 2261 16 36176 G4DEZ 464 4Y Single Operator Fixed Pos Call Locator QTH QSOs Score Mult Total ODX Kms Ant Pwr 1 G1ZJP IO92WV PE 84 16468 76 1251568 G4ADV 435 6Y 400 2 G4DEZ JO03AE PE 87 16819 74 1244606 G4ADV 464 7Y 400 3 GW0GEI IO73TG LL 56 15795 65 1026675 LY2BAW 1901 8Y 400 4 G3MEH IO91QS HP 92 12729 74 941946 SM7RYO 1085 2x5Y 250 5 M0COP IO92BK BM 34 5553 40 222120 LY2BAW 1718 5Y 100 6 G3YBY IO91BO SN 40 4474 42 187908 GM4WLL/P 463 5Y 150 7 G0ODQ IO91NQ OX 34 3845 37 142265 GM4WLL/P 469 5Y 100 8 G8SRL JO01ED TN 35 4037 31 125147 GD0EMG 474 4Y 100 9 G3OHC IO93KS YO 17 3916 30 117480 SP2MPO 1274 3Y 100 10 PE1EWR JO11SL N/A 11 2962 18 53316 GD0EMG 623 3Y 20 11 G6UBM JO01CE TN 18 2129 25 53225 ON4ANT 273 4Y 100 12 G4CZB IO92MF NN 15 1687 18 30366 GD0EMG 324 Dipole 25 13 G7FBD IO81RM BS 13 1338 14 18732 GD0EMG 324 5Y 100 14 G8HGN JO01FO CM 5 932 11 10252 GD0EMG 443 2Y 100 15 M1DUD JO02QC IP 7 699 12 8388 PE1EWR 165 5Y 2 Single Operator Others Pos Call Locator QTH QSOs Score Mult Total ODX Kms Ant Pwr 1 G4HLX/P IO91FN OX 84 13644 69 941436 ES4EQ 1929 5Y 100 2 GM4WLL/P IO85NR TD 30 11878 45 534510 SP6HED 1428 3Y 100 3 M1CJN/P IO94KH YO 47 8500 54 459000 G4TSW 413 5Y 90 4 G8ZRE/P IO83PF CW 39 4070 46 187220 GM4WLL/P 278 2Y 100 5 M0BAO/P IO80LV TA 24 2821 22 62062 GD0EMG 377 4Y 100 6 G0OIW/P IO91MP HP 16 1237 18 22266 GD0EMG 372 Dipole 5 Checklog: G3VQO