Once again a popular set of contests with good activity in many of the sessions and several new faces on the results table. Once again, Robert Ferguson, GD4GNH took a commanding lead in the single operator fixed station section. Second place was fairly closely fought between Pat Moore, G3IKR and John Hall, G0ODQ. Pat showed that you don't need the most up to date gear to be successful, running Heathkit SB303/401 separates, and a homebrew valve transverter with a 3-400Z PA , and a yagi over 30 years old! He didn't even need to be active for the whole of each session. Dave Gilligan, G1OGY put in an excellent performance with only 10W, and Phil Catterall, G4OBK put in a first appearance with low power and an HF log-periodic, and promised to make a bigger showing in the future.
The All Others section was much more closely contested at the top, with the leader of the last few years, G4RFR, being displaced down to 4th place. Tim Boon, M0AFC/P won out in the end with only 20W from an excellent site in Cumbria.
Andy Cook, G4PIQ.
Single Operator Fixed Section Pos Call 13-Jan 27-Jan 10-Feb 24-Feb 17-Mar Norm QSO Loc Pwr Ant km 1* GD4GNH 12236 14000 10621 5842 10247 3000 185 74QD 160 5Y 474 2* G3IKR 3763 3818 4000 3838 4204 1444 168 82XF 140 4Y 420 3 G0ODQ 4411 3504 3699 3205 3625 1263 154 91NQ 150 5Y 469 4 G4YTL 3779 3599 0 3025 2545 1084 112 92MB 150 3Y 427 5 G3TCU 4229 3087 3446 0 4065 1067 103 91QE 150 6Y 526 6 G8EFU 2898 2780 2734 2256 2303 880 126 92BO 90 3Y 354 7* G1OGY 3704 2077 0 1551 2443 807 59 01GR 10 5Y 501 8 G0GCI 3773 1815 1691 1905 1598 794 67 01ED 100 8Y 474 9 G7NBE 1907 1369 0 1206 2142 571 55 92GS 25 3Y 342 10 G4SJH 2562 2427 1771 0 0 549 59 91PI 75 3Y 407 11 G0UPU 659 840 1027 1488 1695 517 56 91AX 50 5Y 421 12 G3JYP 0 3303 2253 0 0 448 22 84SN 10 8QY 423 13 G4OBK 0 0 880 1393 0 321 8 94OF 8 HF LP 308 14 G4OUT 1211 1334 777 0 0 267 41 92AT 10 3CV 230 All Others Section Pos Call 17-Jan 31-Jan 14-Feb 28-Feb 14-Mar Norm QSO Loc Pwr Ant km 1* M0AFC/P 6344 5983 0 4397 4203 3000 104 84SA 20 5Y 373 2* G4ZAP 4560 5214 4168 4067 0 2706 131 81SG 160 5Y 380 3 GW8ASA/P 5987 0 3529 3645 4291 2543 120 81GN 80 3Y 326 4 G4RFR 0 3852 4587 3012 5998 2453 115 90AS 120 12Y 555 5 G0WJR/P 3609 2133 1500 1871 0 1351 70 81QJ 25 2Y 334 6 GM4WLL/P 0 0 0 0 7811 1000 23 85NR 20 6Y 555 * Certificate winner