This year's contest was held on a cold and windy weekend, and the conditions were all that you would expect of a weekend like that - dreadful. QSO totals were significantly down on par, and even the well-sited and equipped East Coast stations found it hard going into Europe, although they did manage to knobble some good DX. Only in the last hour of so of the contest did things liven up with a little aurora, although not everyone was alert enough to catch it while the event was still running, with only G0KPW and GM4WLL/P making QSOs before the end of the event, in spite of there being 59A signals as far south as JO02.

Some people will go to any length to make a few QSOs even if they don't have a real antenna for the band. Congratulations to M0ATY for getting on and making a few QSOs with a half-size G5RV antenna!

The contest was very closely fought at the top of the 24 hour single operator table, and all logs were very carefully checked, but both David Johnson, G4DHF and John Lemay, G4ZTR had good clean logs loosing only around 3% each of claimed points. Congratulations to G4XPE for having the only log in which I couldn't find any errors at all! 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*	G4DHF	43620	123	92UU	400	4 x 11Y	F4BDT/P	829
2*	G4ZTR	43074	127	01KW	400	18Y	OL3Y	885
3	G4BRK	13700	45	91DP	70	9Y	DK8ZB/P	799
4	G4OUT	10060	48	92AT	40	12ZL	F5KOJ	702
5	GW4HBK	3879	20	81KP	60	9Y	OT9M	485
6*	G0TIB	2155	24	82XJ	20	12ZL	GM4WLL/P375
		
24 Hour Multi Operator								
Pos	Call	Pts	QSOs	Loc	Pwr	Ant	Best DX	km
1*	G0KPW	93887	207	02OD	400	2 x 17Y	OK1AGE/P933


6 Hour Single Operator								
Pos	Call	Pts	QSOs	Loc	Pwr	Ant	Best DX	km
1*	G4NOK	17378	65	93FR	100	4 x 16Y	F6ETI/P	654
2*	GM4WLL/P12719	38	85NR	200	8/8Y	SK7MW	999
3	G0DVJ	10184	41	01MX	50	5Y	DL0PVD	563
4*	G1WAC	 9138	38	92BJ	25	18Y	DL2OM	683
5	G4DDL	 3603	24	91PJ	25	9Y	GM4AFF	613
6	G4XPE	 3464	21	92GU	10	10Y	F6DWG/P	461
7	G0PZO	  899	10	83LJ	20	11ZL	F5JLQ/P	450
8	M0ATY	  406	7	92PB	50	G5RV	G4NOK	188		


6 Hour Multi Operator								
Pos	Call	Pts	QSOs	Loc	Pwr	Ant	Best DX	km
1*	G0FBB	25637	85	01EI	400	2 x 17Y	DL9NEK	789
2*	G0WIH	1160	14	91RR	10	Yagi	F9LT	370

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