Anyone who was actve for last year's event with miserable weather and conditions might have been forgiven for thinking that the 2000 event could not possibly be any worse. Unfortunately - it could, and poor conditions combined with a number of stations having damaged antenna systems following the storms earlier in the year led to a quiet event in the UK. GM4VVX in the North of Scotland was active for much of the event and heard just 3 stations, with only meteor bursts to confirm that there was activity elsewhere. Likewise, GW4HBK asked if 16 QSOs in 17 hours represented some sort of a record!
For people a little closer to the centres of actvity however, there was some good DX available, and this is one of the high points of this contest every year - the opportunity to work some really good DX into Europe where actvity is excellent. To show this, half of GM4WLL/P's QSOs were over 500 km in distance, and 30% of G4OUT's were over 300 km.
Congratulations to all the certificate winners and all logs will now be forwarded to ARI for inclusion in the European Marconi Contest.
Andy Cook, G4PIQ
24 Hour Single Operator Pos Call Pts QSOs Loc Pwr Ant Best DX km 1* G4ZTR 34821 89 01KW 400 2 x 9Y DH1NHI 786 2* G4OUT 9103 35 92AT 40 12Y LX2DX 651 3 GW4HBK 3197 16 81KP 60 9Y OT0M 476 4 GM4VVX 397 3 78TA 400 9Y GM4CXM 230 24 Hour Multi Operator Pos Call Pts QSOs Loc Pwr Ant Best DX km 1 * G0NFA 6664 23 91NE 100 9Y F6HJO/P 718 6 Hour Multi Operator Pos Call Pts QSOs Loc Pwr Ant Best DX km 1 * G0FBB 18253 53 01EI 400 2 x 17Y OL3Y 877 6 Hour Single Operator Pos Call Pts QSOs Loc Pwr Ant Best DX km 1* GM4AFF 10938 21 86ST 400 4 x 9Y PE1OGF 789 2* GM4WLL/P 9609 25 85NR 200 8/8Y DL0KM 786 3* G3FIJ 6425 25 01KV 10 10Y DK8ZB/P 632 4 M5ECW 5551 26 91WJ 25 9Y GM4WLL/P 543 5 G0DVJ 5328 20 01MX 50 5Y DK8ZB/P 624 6 G4XPE 2849 12 92GU 25 10Y ON7RY 474 7 G3JJZ 2600 20 01AJ 25 HB9CV ON4CGP 330 8 G1WAC 2222 7 92BJ 25 18Y F6ETI/P 504 * Certificate Winners