When you get a set of results like this, you begin to wonder if the Isle of Man was on the same planet as the rest of the entrants, but Robert Ferguson certanly was, and turned in an outstanding set of scores from one of the best locations for 4m in the country. In contrast, third and fourth places in the open section was very closely fought with only 4 points seperating John Lemay, G4ZTR and Martyn Vincent, G3UKV. In the end, careful checking changed the order and widened the gap.
Pretty much everyone agreed that session 2 was the best of the bunch, and it is clear that activity is still good on 4m, and the entry to the event was up somewhat on last year.
David Edwards in Cromer, G8NEO, was also QRV, but only heard signals in the last session and was unable to complete any QSOs. David Dodds, GM4WLL and Ross Wilkinson, G0WJR both went out portable this year. Ross operated from 5 different sites to add a little variety to the event, while David tried to operate from his usual site each time, but couldn't make it right up the mountain during the 4th session. In fact it was so windy, that he couldn't even get the antenna more than 5 feet in the air, and that had to be in the lee of the car. Thanks to both of them for making the effort in the middle of winter!
Andy Cook, G4PIQ.
Single Operator Fixed Section Pos Call 23-Jan 30-Jan 13-Feb 27-Feb 13-Mar Norm QSO Loc Pwr Ant km 1* GD4GNH 10632 20615 15697 16208 12269 3000 219 74QD 160 2 x 6Y 543 2* G3XDY 6697 6734 7192 8063 0 1586 140 02OB 150 6Y 579 3 G3UKV 5200 7293 5459 5668 5884 1323 179 82RR 100 5Y 454 4 G4ZTR 0 0 6010 6132 6072 1257 106 01KW 150 5Y 584 5 GM4AFF 2948 6709 5637 5460 4842 1091 65 86ST 150 7Y 673 6 G1OGY 0 6722 4357 5105 4709 1025 138 01GR 150 6Y 598 7* G7UYP 2035 6546 4700 3795 3775 925 124 02AT 25 7LPY 473 8 G3NKS 3705 5515 4499 3512 0 903 132 81XU 100 6Y 552 9 G3TCU 3011 3734 3522 4061 0 759 113 91QE 150 6Y 526 10 G3ZJY 1280 3137 3394 2934 3252 663 93 90FR 50 4Y 433 11 G0GCI 1637 3887 2748 3634 2567 622 97 01ED 100 4Y 474 12 G0MJW 2395 3887 2312 2510 0 569 105 91JO 160 4Y 472 13 G4JTJ 0 0 2456 2155 3193 550 62 92SD 30 6Y 428 14 G3FIJ 1797 2674 1836 1674 1974 460 68 01KV 15 4Y 445 15 G4OUT 1371 1658 0 1483 1381 334 49 92AT 10 3CV 245 16 G4SJH 0 0 1621 1481 1259 298 41 91PI 10 3Y 407 17 G3VWH 382 2142 2031 988 0 295 35 82OQ 10 3Y 460 18 G7NBE 529 1102 1052 823 0 172 26 92GS 25 3Y 260 19 G0DVJ 287 771 145 282 578 112 19 01MX 24 Dipole 449 20 GW1SXT 0 617 0 0 0 30 9 81LQ 10 3Y 126 All Others Section Pos Call 23-Jan 30-Jan 13-Feb 27-Feb 13-Mar Norm QSO Loc Pwr Ant km 1* G4RFR 4618 7735 8380 7817 7183 3000 216 90AS 100 12Y 672 2* G4NOK 0 7614 3158 4938 6825 2567 101 93FR 150 6Y 348 3 GM4WLL/P3616 5470 5634 574 3125 2163 77 85NR 20 4Y 626 4 G0WJR/P 1283 2432 3042 2374 2848 1074 91 81/91/8315 2Y/5CV 404 * Certificate winner