Another year with good sporadic E openings bringing a wide variety of dx, although most entrants had to wait until Sunday for it. In the meantime, many endured cold, wet weather and long bouts of static rain. The 6 hour entrants all opted for Saturday sessions, which meant that they missed the better conditions.
Clearly the hurly-burly of working dx brings its toll; this contest raises more comments about bad signals and operating practices than the rest of the year put together. As was the case last year, there seems to have been widespread confusion over who was working who with some interesting mix-ups of calls and locators.
In general the results were clear cut, the exception being M2A/G5B. On claimed scores they were 0.3% apart; after very careful comprehensive checking, the gap widened to a massive 1%.
Terry, EH8BYR (aka G0TJN) shows what a simple station can achieve from the right location while the Northern Lights and Roger, G4BVY, retain the Telford Trophy and Six Metre Cup respectively.
Steve G8GSQ
Section S Pos Call Points Mult Total QSO Loc Pwr Ant dx km 1 EH8BYR 334110 90 30069900 121 IL38FW 10 5 KP4YA 5421 2 2C4BVY/P178867 115 20569705 436 IO81NV 400 2x2x5 LZ2KHN 2294 3 2A1BQI/P 98471 60 5908260 115 IO85RW 80 5 EH8BYR 3126 4 G7LXK 79671 63 5019273 178 IO93QV 400 5 EH8BYR 2966 5 G4AEQ 68885 57 3926445 117 JO03PE 50 2x4 IT9CHU 2159 6 GM7AFE/P 55992 33 1847736 35 IP90JA 100 HB9CV IK6TIJ 2219 7 2C6VZW 44599 41 1828559 47 IO81LQ 100 6 9H1EL 1959 8 G0LCS 27029 39 1054131 54 IO91WP 100 2x4 LZ2KHN 2110 9 PE1EWR 25701 34 873834 49 JO11SL 25 3 EH8BYR 2878 10 GM0HBF 56812 16 908992 39 IO67IN 100 5 IK6TIJ 2258 11 G1ZBJ 16470 26 428220 35 IO80EN 100 LPY IE9/I2ADN 1864 12 2U0ARE 11767 13 152971 10 IN89RL 5 5 IE9/I2ADN 1729 13 G7NBE 4418 13 57434 13 IO92GS 20 5 SP9W 1585 Section M Pos Call Points Mult Total QSO Loc Pwr Ant dx km Group 1 MD0V 420319 158 66410402 616 IO74QD 400 4x7+3x6 5B4AGM 3653 Northern Lights 2 M2A 216789 134 29049726 538 IO92NP 400 2x6 9H1XT 2220 Black Sheep CG 3 G5B 235630 122 28746860 561 JO03AD 400 4x5+2x6 TZ6VV 4451 5 Bells CG 4 M1A 134747 88 11857736 309 JO02OD 400 6 9H1XT 2091 Martlesham DX & CG 5 M0BRA/P 91196 79 7204484 241 IO80ST 400 8 9H1EL 2175 Bracknell ARC 6 M1BCG/P 78158 85 6643430 205 IO81TK 100 8 9H1EL 2180 Bristol CG 7 G0VHF/P 61914 62 3838668 228 JO01GN 200 5 LZ2CC 2048 Villa CG 8 G8SRC/P 53373 54 2882142 192 IO91CL 60 5 9H1EL 2156 Swindon & DARC 9 G7RIH 39998 48 1919904 207 IO91RR 160 5 LZ2CC 2124 Dacorum ARTS 10 G3ZME/P 51536 46 2370656 122 IO82SM 45 5 5B4AGM 3456 Telford ARS 11 G0MSA/P 30658 45 1379610 157 JO01BA 100 7 9H5EE 2037 E Sussex CG Section SS Pos Call Points Mult Total QSO Loc Pwr Ant dx km 1 G6FQZ 53247 51 2715597 65 IO91JR 50 5 LZ2CC 2158 2 G3MEH 8154 20 163080 87 IO91QS 100 5 MD0V 377 Section OS Pos Call Points Mult Total QSO Loc Pwr Ant dx km Group 1 G4HLX/P 8466 18 152388 89 IO91FN 100 3 MD0V 354 2 G5UM/P 4606 17 78302 47 IO92MO 100 2x3 F6IFR 399 Leicester RS