144MHz Low Power 2007

Despite lower activity than last year, a tropo opening to Spain & Southern France provided many entrants with distances in excess of 900km. Band conditions improved throughout the contest but unfortunately didn't peak for a few until after the contest. Overall there was a good standard of logging; seven were completely error free, seven with just one error & five with two errors. A total of 333 different callsigns were logged during the contest.

Congratulations go to the A1 Contest group G4ZAP/P as clear winners of the Open section & to the Moors Contest Group M0MCG/P for taking second place.

Bob Harrison G8HGN as winner of the Single Operator Fixed section closely followed by Roger piper G3MEH in second place.

Bob Reeves G8VOI/P as winner of the Single Operator Others section & Paul Selwood G8BGV/P in second place.

Certificates also go to Bob Treacher M3RCV as leading foundation licensee & to Frank Laanen PE1EWR as leading overseas station.

Richard Cooper G4WFR.

144MHz Low Power 2007
Open
Pos	Callsign	Locator	Postcode	QSOs	Score	Multiplier	Total	ODX Call	ODX Kms	Power	Ant	Equipment	Group
1*	G4ZAP/P	IO93EH	SD	154	34,523	125	4,315,375	EA2BFM/P	1,135	25	2x12Y+2X12Y+9Y+Colinear	3xIC-7400	A1 CG
2*	M0MCG/P	IO80AQ	EX	95	28,742	94	2,701,748	F1UCQ/P	993	25	10Y+10Y	TS-2000	Moors CG
3	G0VHF/P	JO01PU	CO	100	28,914	91	2,631,174	EA2BFM/P	1,030	25	2x15Y+2x9Y	FT-847	Colchester CG
4	G3WIM/P	IO91VG	RH	49	9,652	55	530,860	EA2BFM/P	934	25	18Y	FT-225	Wimbledon & D ARS
5	G3WIR/P	IO91KG	RG	45	9,353	56	523,768	EA2BFM/P	918	25	13Y	FT-736	Burnham Beeches RC
6	G4FUR/P	IO91XH	CR	57	8,966	58	520,028	HB9AOF	738	25	2x17Y	TS-2000	Coulsdon ATS
Single Operator Fixed
Pos	Callsign	Locator	Postcode	QSOs	Score	Multiplier	Total	ODX Call	ODX Kms	Power	Ant	Equipment	Group
1*	G8HGN	JO01FO	CM	59	16,858	66	1,112,628	F1UCQ/P	994	25	2x15Y	FT-847
2*	G3MEH	IO91QS	HP	62	15,376	66	1,014,816	EA2BFM/P	980	25	2x9Y	FT-1000+Tvtr
3	G4DEZ	JO03AE	PE	51	12,866	66	849,156	EA2BFM/P	1,143	25	4x12Y	FT-225
4	M0XUK	IO91DP	SN	51	7,454	51	380,154	F6JMT/P	508	25	9Y	FT-1000+Tvtr
5*	M3RCV	JO01AL	SE	38	4,578	44	201,432	F1OET/P	622	10	9Y	TR-9000
6	G1KHX	IO81MI	BS	23	6,051	33	199,683	EA2BFM/P	910	25	9Y	FT-101ZD+Tvtr
7	M5ADF	IO91TO	HA	26	4,261	33	140,613	EA2BFM/P	966	25	21LPY	TR-751E
8*	PE1EWR	JO11SL		17	5,083	24	121,992	M0MCG/P	532	25	10Y	TS-790
9	M0COK	IO82XJ	BM	27	3,027	32	96,864	G0VHF/P	236	25	7Y	FT-897
10	G4HHJ	IO91US	AL	21	2,825	27	76,275	F6BUL/P	812	25	8Y	FT-847
11	G1WKS	JO01CE	TN	18	2,367	25	59,175	M0MCG/P	298	23	13Y	IC-910
12	G3XKT	IO92IW	NG	15	2,028	25	50,700	M0MCG/P	311	25	4Y	FT-857
13	G0LGS	IO81WV	GL	12	1,657	22	36,454	G0VHF/P	235	25	8Y	IC-910
14	M0GIE	IO83WN	OL	9	1,203	16	19,248	M0MCG/P	344	25	7Y	FT-847	Oldham ARC
15	G6CSY	JO01BJ	BR	8	940	12	11,280	G4ZAP/P	245	25
Single Operator Other
Pos	Callsign	Locator	Postcode	QSOs	Score	Multiplier	Total	ODX Call	ODX Kms	Power	Ant	Equipment	Group
1*	G8VOI/P	IO90MX	GU	82	22,393	73	1,634,689	EC1DMY/P	987	25	13Y	IC-211
2*	G8BGV/P	JO01HP	CM	71	17,629	69	1,216,401	EA2BFM/P	992	10	6Y	FT-817
3	GW8ZRE/P	IO83JA	LL	55	11,016	66	727,056	F6JMT/P	688	25	7Y	TR-751E
4	G3CWI/P	IO93OX	YO	66	11,059	59	652,481	M0MCG/P	425	25	5Y	FT-817
5	G3NFC/P	IO93BA	DE	64	11,163	58	647,454	EA2BFM/P	1,101	25	9Y	IC-7000	Burton ARC
6	M0BAO/P	IO80LV	TA	32	6,521	42	273,882	PE1EWR	464	25	8Y	IC-7000
*	Certificate winners

Comments from the logs

G0VHF/P

Some nice tropo

G3WIR/P

Lovely weather, where did the rain go?

G4FUR/P

Band opened wide after sunset, pity it was when the contest had finished!

G4ZAP/P

Nice propagation to South of France / Spain

M0MCG/P

Slow going early on but good conditions to south later

G1KHX

Late start but found conditions quite good

G3MEH

Some nice DX to the south and south west and plenty of UK portables out

G4DEZ

Not very good conditions up in JO03, too far North

G4HHJ

Good condx with my best DX worked to date from this location and that with only 25W

G8HGN

Slow start then tropo to F and EA

M0COK

Hard work from Birmingham area. Not hearing as much as others on hills by far

M3RCV

Hard work but pleased with the ODX at 620k

G3CWI/P

Poor conditions

G8BGV/P

Tropo opened up SE through SW. Conditions normal in other directions. Super day for /P

G8VOI/P

Contest, Good Weather! Very Good Tropo!, what happened!

GW8ZRE/P

Good start then not many stations. WX poor