Excellent band conditions greeted the entrants for this contest. As one remarked 'it makes a nice change to work some good DX on 6m during a contest'. The weather was not kind to some stations with heavy rain showers and the occasional thunderstorm to make life more difficult.
Thank you to all of the entrants who provided their logs on disk or via email. All logs were re-scored to eliminate any scoring differences between logging programs. This also allowed a very through crosscheck of all entrants' logs to be undertaken. As normal for Backpacker contests the standard of logging was very high.
The usual crop of problems occurred during this contest. One station had to pack up early when the microphone stopped working. A replacement has been ordered for the next contest!
Congratulations to the winners and runners-up in each section, you will all receive certificates.
Ian, G0FCT Email: g0fct@blacksheep.org
Multi-operator 10W Pos Group Name Call sign Loc QSO Multi Points Total Best DX km Power Ant Equipment 1* One Man and His Dog CG G8NWM/P IO92TR 25 23 15195 349485 EH1IB 1951 10 5EL FT736 Multi-operator 3W Pos Group Name Call sign Loc QSO Multi Points Total Best DX km Power Ant Equipment 1* Wythall Contest Group G1WAC/P IO82XJ 43 19 11117 211223 9A1O 1671 2.5 HB9CV FT690 2* Oldham RC G1ORC/P IO83XN 28 16 8150 130400 EH9IB 2035 2.5 4EL FT690 Single Operator 10W Pos Call sign Loc QSO Multi Points Total Best DX km Power Ant Equipment 1* M0AFC/P IO84VG 98 29 27755 804895 EH7KW 2647 10 5EL FT847 2* G8JAY/P IO91AW 56 34 21644 735896 LZ2CC 2224 10 5EL TS130+TVR 3 M0BAO/P IO80LV 21 17 8674 147458 IE9/I2ADN 1856 10 HB9CV IC706 4 M0BHE/P IO80MU 13 12 7863 94356 IE9/I2ADN 1848 10 V IC706 5 G4MPK/P IO81RC 12 10 3248 32480 EH6SA 1329 10 HB9CV IC726S Single Operator 3W Pos Call sign Loc QSO Multi Points Total Best DX km Power Ant Equipment 1* GW0PZO/P IO83ID 88 27 22300 602100 9A4U 1712 2.5 3EL FT690 2* GI7JYK/P IO74BQ 32 29 20264 587656 IW0UIQ 2057 3 2EL MFJ9406 3 2C8ZRE/P IO83JF 29 22 14125 310750 SP8PAI/P 1883 3 HB9CV FT690 4 G4FAA/P JO01AG 20 11 1442 15862 2C4BVY/P 228 2.75 3EL IC726 5 G0FUW/P IO81PH 12 6 1535 9210 EH3CQQ 1134 2 3EL IC707+TVR * Certificate winner