Foot and Mouth took a great toll on the entry to this contest during 2001, and, combined with poor conditions, made for a very quiet event, but it was good to welcome a few new faces or returnees to the VHF contesting scene. The only other upside seemed to be the French portables who were out in their own QRP contest on this weekend.
Roger Piper, G3MEH walks away with the single operator section leaving Michael Wright, G0GCI in 2nd place, and allowing Dave Hewitt, G8ZRE, operating from home for a change, to pick up the certificate for the leading low power single antenna station. Things were closer in the multi-op section with the Colchester Contest Group, hiding as G3ZES this time getting the better of the Five Bells, G4SIV.
The VHF Contests Committee apologise for the enormous delay in preparing these results.
Andy Cook, G4PIQ
Single Operator Fixed Station Pos Call Loc QSOs Mult Points Pwr Ant Best DX km 1* G3MEH IO91QS 100 73 1182819 25 2 x 10Y DF0WD 623 2* G0GCI JO01ED 68 60 676740 25 2 x 9Y DF2VJ 509 3 G8ZRE IO83NE 45 50 374550 25 8Y F6KPL 413 4 M0BPQ IO93HD 39 38 208278 18 9Y ON7CL 493 5 G1KHX IO81MI 32 36 172368 25 9Y G4DEZ 288 6* PE1EWR JO11SL 20 26 141336 3 10Y F6KPL 400 7 M0COP IO92BK 25 33 83358 25 8Y GI6ATZ 347 8 G0EYX IO82WT 21 30 66540 25 16Y GM0BRS/P 338 All Others Section Pos Call Loc QSOs Mult Points Pwr Ant Best DX km 1* G3ZES JO01JP 117 87 2085651 25 2 x 15Y DK7FC 589 2* G4SIV IO92WS 94 87 1708245 25 6 x 12Y DF2VJ 624 3 G3PIA IO91IN 93 78 1067196 25 17Y DF2VJ 633 4 G0DLR JO01EI 73 58 565790 25 15Y GM0BRS/P 530 5 G3YNN JO00EU 45 41 265147 25 14Y DF2VJ 498 * Certificate Winner Checklog greatfully received from G8LED/P