The entry to this contest recovered well from last year's foot?and?mouth struck event, but unfortunately activity levels were not great, and the leaders in their sections had to show great perseverance to achieve the QSO totals which they did manage. Last year's Open Section winners, the Five Bells Group, G4SIV/P had great problem with their system this year and had the antennas up and down several times. This lost the substantial operating time, and the problem was exacerbated by Bob, G1ZJP getting stung by wasps 3 times! This enabled the A1 Contest group, G4ZAP to take the lead in the Open section, followed by Bracknell ARC, G4BRA/P.
In the Single Operator Portable section, Erik Gedvilas, G8XVJ operated the Warrington Contest Group station to take first place, with Geoff Morris, GW1ATZ using a much more modest setup to come in second.
The Single Operator Fixed section was led by Frank Laanen, PE1EWR who takes the leading Overseas station award. In the UK, Bryn Llewellyn, G4DEZ fairly narrowly beat Roger Piper, G3MEH into second place. It was excellent to see newly licensed 14 year old Steven Cox, M3SVC making a decent score in this section - he only received his callsign the previous day, and he wins the leading Foundation licensee award!
Andy Cook, G4PIQ
Single Operator Fixed Station Pos Call Loc QSOs Mult Points Pwr Ant Best DX km 1* PE1EWR JO11SL 20 25 128275 13 2x21Y G4BRA/P 425 2* G4DEZ JO03AE 23 28 113960 25 2x28Y F6KPL 409 3* G3MEH IO91QS 28 32 104640 20 2x23Y PA5DD 367 4 G4APJ IO83UP 19 28 72072 25 19Y G0GCI 332 5 G0GCI JO01ED 16 23 67551 25 2x21Y M0AFC/P 373 6 G1KHX IO81MI 17 22 57552 25 19Y G4OBK 351 7* M3SVC IO91FE 12 19 27265 5 14Y G4SIV/P 252 8 G4OBK IO94OF 7 12 16524 25 20Y G4BRA/P 396 9 G3YJR IO93FJ 11 13 10244 10 19Y G0VHF/P 218 Single Operator Portable Section Pos Call Loc QSOs Mult Points Pwr Ant Best DX km 1* G8XVJ/P IO93AD 74 74 1021940 20 2x32Y+21Y DG1KJG 673 2* GW1ATZ/P IO82KW 39 40 184960 25 18Y G4KDH 295 3 G0WJR/P IO81PH 15 23 44620 4 10ZL G4APJ 261 All Others Section Pos Call Loc QSOs Mult Points Pwr Ant Best DX km 1* G4ZAP/P IO93EH 82 74 1101416 25 4x28Y+Colinear DG1KJG 659 2* G4BRA/P IO80ST 48 50 525200 25 2x21Y DB2KA 650 3 G0VHF/P JO01HW 47 46 363216 25 2x21Y DF4UE 721 4 G8NWM/P IO92TR 38 45 341100 25 2x22Y DG1KJG 558 5 G4SIV/P JO03CE 28 32 171840 25 8x28Y DG1KJG 542 * Certificate Winner