This year's event suffered from low activity levels with only 66 stations appearing in the logs, a decrease of 36% on 1999. The number of entries was down by a similar percentage, though at least nine stations with reasonable numbers of QSOs failed to submit entries. Numerous theories were put forward by the entrants such as the closeness to the 4 metre cumulatives and the clashing microwave round table! Conditions were generally rated as average to poor with deep QSB causing problems
Robert GD4GNH, this year disguised as GD0EMG, repeated his 1999 victory. David GM4WLL won the single operator open section and the Dacorum Amateur Radio and Transmitting Society won the multi-operator section. Ian G4OUT was the leading fixed station running less than 25 watts into a single antenna. These stations together with section runners up will receive certificates.
Roger, G4BVY
Single operator fixed (SF) Call Score QSOs Locator Power Antenna Best DX Loc km 1* GD0EMG 14349 49 IO74QD 160 8ele GU6EFB IN89RK 543 2* G4ZTR 4932 25 JO01KW 150 8ele GM4AFF IO86ST 584 3 G3NKS 4671 33 IO81XU 100 6ele GM4AFF IO86ST 552 4 G3TCU 4364 28 IO91QE 150 6ele GM4WLL/PIO85NR 526 5 G0GCI 3850 21 JO01ED 100 4ele GM4WLL/PIO85NR 553 6 G1KHX 3619 22 IO81MI 90 5ele GD0EMG IO74QD 330 7 G3MEH 3199 28 IO91QS 150 6ele GM4WLL/PIO85NR 465 8 G3LVP 2862 19 IO81WV 50 7LP GM4AFF IO86ST 547 9* G4OUT 1619 14 IO92AT 10 3ele G0GCI JO01ED 245 10 GM4DIJ 425 5 IO85IW 50 4ele GD0EMG IO74QD 217 11 GM4UYZ 155 5 IO85MX 50 4ele GM4AFF IO86ST 98 Single operator open (SO) Call Score QSOs Locator Power Antenna Best DX Loc km 1* GM4WLL/P7635 27 IO85NR 90 6ele G0GCI JO01ED 553 7635 Multi operator (M) Call Score QSOs Locator Power Antenna Best DX Loc km 1* G7RIH 4048 27 IO91RR 20 5ele GM4AFF IO86ST 579