2nd 144MHz Backpackers Contest of 2004

Yet another hot, sunny day greeted the thirty-nine entrants for this contest. Band conditions were not as good as the weather with less than half of the entrants able to work outside of the UK. However, some stations managed to work DX more than 800km distant. Several stations commented that the contest had been conducted in a very friendly atmosphere.

The accuracy of logging was much better in this session of the Backpackers when compared with the last session. Three stations managed to turn in perfect logs – well done. Another seven stations managed to lose less than 2% of their claimed scored - an excellent achievement. At the other end of the scale, the least accurate logs had nearly 40% of claimed points deducted. Correct copying of locators seemed to cause the most problems in this contest.

Congratulations to Roger Ward and his team for piloting GW5NF/P into the top spot of the 10W multi-operator section. The One Man and His Dog Contest Group, G8NMW/P are the runners-up.
Congratulations to the Oldham Radio Club, G1ORC/P for winning the 3W multi-operator section. Ken Coxon, G0HDV/P is the runner-up.
Congratulations to Ivan Davies, G3IZD/P for winning the 10W Single Operator section. Paul Selwood, G3YDY/P is the runner-up.
Congratulations to Dave Hewitt, GW8ZRE/P for winning the 3W Single Operator section with a score over twice that of the runner-up, Mike Baguley GW7LQD/P.
Finally, congratulations to Myke Oldham, G6DDQ/P for winning the ‘Less than 1W’ certificate.

Thanks to G3MEH, PE1EWR and M/DL2LFH/P for their very useful check logs.

Winners and runners-up will receive certificates. All Backpacker certificates will be mailed after all of the Backpacker contests for 2004 have been completed.

Ian, G0FCT
g0fct@blacksheep.org

10W Multi-Op											
Pos	Call	Locator	QSOs	Score	Mults	Total	Best DX	kms	Power	Ant	Equipment
1*	GW5NF/P	IO81KR	157	31878	39	1243242	DL8GP	761	10	2x9el	FT290R
2*	G8NWM/P	IO92TR	80	18270	29	529830	DL8GP	638	10	17el	FT736R
3	M0BPQ/P	IO91XG	84	12624	25	315600	EI9GQ	580	10	2x9el	IC756+Tvtr
4	G4HSO/P	IO91RU	53	6291	18	113238	G7ANV/P	387	10	4Q	IC746
5	G0HRW/P	IO83SO	43	5695	15	85425	M0ADA/P	438	5	7ZL	FT817
3W Multi-Op											
Pos	Call	Locator	QSOs	Score	Mults	Total	Best DX	kms	Power	Ant	Equipment
1*	G1ORC/P	IO93BJ	97	15841	30	475230	ON7LAO	531	2.5	2x9el	FT817
2*	G0HDV/P	IO93UK	87	16125	29	467625	EI3ENB/P458	3	13el	TR751E
3	M0WEN/P	IO93EI	66	9854	23	226642	DL2OM	700	2.5	17el	FT290
4	GW4IDF/PIO81NV	86	12591	18	226638	PE1AXM	461	3	17el	IC202
5	G1WKS/P	JO01ED	51	8094	24	194256	DG9YIH	500	3	2x9el	FT817
6	G2HDF/P	IO82UK	66	8795	21	184695	ON7LAO	502	2.5	10el	FT290
7	G3BPK/P	IO83PN	68	7544	20	150880	EI5FK	439	3	13el	IC746
8	G6ZME/P	IO82SQ	23	2465	11	27115	M0ADA/P	351	3	10ZL	IC706
10W Single Op											
Pos	Call	Locator	QSOs	Score	Mults	Total	Best DX	kms	Power	Ant	Equipment
1*	G3IZD/P	IO84KD	131	29156	29	845524	M0ADA/P	475	10	13el	FT817
2*	G3YDY/P	JO01HX	74	11779	21	247359	G7ANV/P	403	10	4el	FT290+Lin
3	G0PQF/P	JO01AX	52	8658	21	181818	G7ANV/P	386	10	9el	FT847
4	M1VPN/P	IO70QO	29	5258	17	89386	G3RIK/P	376	10	3el	FT857
5	M0BAO/P	IO80LV	36	5774	13	75062	M0UKR/P	371	10	8el	IC706
3W Single Op											
Pos	Call	Locator	QSOs	Score	Mults	Total	Best DX	 kms	Power	Ant	Equipment
1*	GW8ZRE/P IO83JA	156	31346	41	1285186	DL8GP	 819	3	7ZL+12ZL TR751E
2*	GW7LQD/P IO82KW	102	18484	30	554520	DL3YEL/P 800	3	2x9el	IC275E
3	GW0PZO/P IO83ID	98	15787	29	457823	ON5AEN	 543	2.5	9el	FT290R
4	G4ARI/P	 IO92IQ	96	14069	26	365794	DL8GP	 688	3	14el	FT817
5	G4HLX/P	 IO91FN	62	10041	24	240984	GM0GMD/P 522	3	13el	K2+Tvtr
6	GW4EVX/P IO83JD	70	8478	20	169560	GM0GMD/P 324	2.5	9el	FT817
7	M5CSM/P	 JO01GP	52	7275	17	123675	G6CLD	 319	2.5	11el	FT290R
8	G4HUN/P	 IO84XE	55	6727	17	114359	G4RLF/P	 357	2.5	3el	FT817
9	G0OIW/P	 IO91HH	57	7123	15	106845	G8XQS/P	 368	3	5el	IC202S
10	G4CZB/P	 IO92LE	47	6241	17	106097	G7ANV/P	 342	2.5	7ZL	FT290
11	G0FUW/P	 IO81PH	38	6004	17	102068	G7ANV/P	 432	2.5	7el	FT817
12	GI7JYK/P IO74BS	28	6244	16	99904	G4RLF/P	 491	3	9el	FT290R
13	G0BVW/P	 IO91SW	47	6612	15	99180	G7ANV/P	 379	3	9el	IC202
14	G6MXL/P	 IO80WP	46	6982	14	97748	M0UKR/P	 341	3	9el	FT736R
15	G6GVI/P	 IO81PH	39	5486	15	82290	EI3ENB/P 321	2.5	7ZL	IC202
16	G0POT/P	 IO91IH	46	4834	14	67676	G3IZD/P	 338	2.5	3el	FT817
17	G8XQS/P	 IO94AO	23	4352	14	60928	G3VEF/P	 409	2.5	9el	FT290
18*	G6DDQ/P	 IO83UP	42	4765	12	57180	M0ADA/P	 447	0.5	3el	FT817
19	G4VRC/P	 IO90NX	37	4760	12	57120	G7ANV/P	 476	2.5	12el	FT817
20	G0NFO/P	 IO82QJ	38	4227	12	50724	GM4RIV/P 295	2.5	3el	FT290
21	GI0RQK/P IO74AW	16	3895	11	42845	G0HDV/P	 405	0.5	9el	FT817
22	G0LJD/P	 JO01GH	29	2991	10	29910	GW8ZRE/P 319	2.5	12ZL	FT290R
	
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	G3MEH										
	PE1EWR										
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