Rain showers greeted some of the contestants in the fifth and final 144MHz Backpackers contest of 2003. Band conditions were variable with deep QSB for prolonged periods. Several stations reporting hearing plenty of European DX operating in the IARU 144MHz contest. However, most of the DX could not hear the QRP Backpacker signals
The general standard of logging improved remarkably in this session. This time, ten stations managed to submit perfect logs - well done. A further five stations lost less then 2% of their claimed score. At the other end of the scale, five stations had the misfortune to loose over 20% of their claimed score. The average loss of points was 9.2%.
Congratulations to the following stations for winning their respective sections:
· GW8ZRE/P (10W Single Operator)
· GW0PZO/P (3W Single Operator)
· M0AFC/P (3W Multi Operator)
· M3RNA/P (Leading Foundation station)
All winners and runners-up will receive certificates. Thank you to PE1EWR, G8HGN and G3UFY/P for their very useful check logs.
Ian Pawson, G0FCT g0fct@blacksheep.org
10W Single Op Pos Call Loc QSOs Score Mult Total Best DX km Power Ant Equipment 1* GW8ZRE/P IO83JA 104 22344 36 804384 F6KSL 793 10 7ZL TR751E 2* G0PQF/P JO01AX 53 11124 30 333720 GM4ZUK/P 576 10 9el FT847 3 G3IZD/P IO84KD 46 10736 23 246928 F6IFR 581 10 10el FT817 4 G0KYS/P IO80AQ 40 10036 22 220792 LX/PA1TK/P 723 10 10el TR9130 5 G3YDY/P JO01FQ 56 8529 24 204696 G4ADV/P 425 10 4el FT290+PA 6 M0BAO/P IO80LV 34 8676 21 182196 GM4ZUK/P 673 10 17el IC706 7* M3RNA/P IO90LU 15 3161 12 37932 GM4ZUK/P 684 10 7ZL FT290R 8 G4WVD/P IO70NN 9 1580 5 7900 G4DEZ 446 10 10ZL FT480R 3W Single Op Pos Call Loc QSOs Score Mult Total Best DX km Power Ant Equipment 1* GW0PZO/P IO83ID 73 14896 33 491568 DK0PU 706 2.5 9el FT290 2* G4HLX/P IO91FN 68 13308 32 425856 TM9R 673 3 13el K1+DEM Tvtr 2 G4HUN/P IO92XA 60 11557 31 358267 GM4ZUK/P 570 2.5 7ZL FT817 3 G1WKS/P JO01ED 54 10876 30 326280 GM4ZUK/P 671 3 2x8el FT817 4 GW3ATZ/P IO82KW 64 11711 24 281064 PA6NL 502 2 10el FT290 5 G8XQS/P IO94AO 31 9307 25 232675 F6IFR 586 2.5 9el FT290 6 G0BVW/P IO92QA 36 7266 27 196182 GM4ZUK/P 561 3 9el FT817 7 M5CSM/P JO01GP 37 6956 23 159988 DF0OL 540 2.5 11el FT290 8 G3JKV/P IO91TE 37 6147 24 147528 DK0WD 510 2.5 9el FT817 9 G4CZB/P IO91XF 34 5692 22 125224 F6KSL 500 2.5 7ZL FT290 10 GW4EVX/P IO83JD 49 6970 14 97580 ON4WY 478 2.5 9el FT817 11 G7ARW/P IO83RP 29 5197 16 83152 GM4VVX/P 502 2.5 7ZL FT817 12 G0LJD/P JO01GH 21 3526 17 59942 PA6C 454 2.5 12ZL FT290R 13 G0OIW/P IO91GI 22 2901 15 43515 PA6NL 391 2.5 5el FT817 3W Multi-op Pos Call Loc QSOs Score Mult Total Best DX km Power Ant Equipment 1* M0AFC/P IO84SA 94 23424 34 796416 DL0NS 715 3 13el FT847 2* GW5NF/P IO81KR 66 16740 33 552420 DL0WAE 783 2.5 2x9el FT290 3 G0RMX/P IO82TA 69 11633 26 302458 GM4ZUK/P 547 3 17el IC202S 4 M0DBX/P IO90NX 41 7944 25 198600 TM1Y 751 2.5 5el FT817 5 G1WAR/P IO92IO 18 4485 21 94185 F6HPP/P 490 2.5 9el FT817 6 G6ZME/P IO82NN 19 3350 13 43550 GM4ZUK/P 487 2.5 13el FT817 Checklog PE1EWR G8HGN G3UFY/P