Heading to the Blorenge straight after work I was greeted at the site by Driving rain and wind, not a great prospect. How wrong I was!
Issues with The MHP cable meant that the Preamp and Anglian Transverter could not be used, so the system was quickly reconfigured 5 minutes before the start of the contest to use the K3 internal Transverter to feed the PA and use the Transmit Cable for the antenna connection (the MHP fails to transmit)
Nothing for the first 3 minutes then it was wall to wall stations, a lot from mainland Europe. 83 were worked in the first hour, as many as worked previously in the complete contest. Conditions to the East faded out so we decided to try for multipliers to the North as GB3ANG was loud. No sign of life in JO03, IO64 and IO74 but GM4AFF and GM4JJJ from IO86 and GM6JNJ in IO75 called us with big signals
We ended up with 183 QSOs 48 multipliers for a total of around 2 Million points best DX was DK5QN in JO42 at 789km. The average QSO was 223km compared to the normal 184km.
Luckily the weather cleared by the time the contest finished.
Pos Call Loc QSO Score Mult Total ODX kms
1 GW0FRE/P IO81LS 181 41,207 48 1,977,936 DK5QN 789
2 M0BUL/P IO82OI 167 30,328 49 1,486,072 PA4VHF 652
3 M1DDD/P IO93CH 172 28,105 47 1,320,935 DK1MG 726
The result would have qualified for 2nd in the unrestricted section!
Pos Call Loc QSO Score Mult Total ODX kms
1 G4CLA IO92JL 234 43,096 57 2,456,472 DG7TG 733
2 G4FZN/P IO94JF 170 37,819 49 1,853,131 DK5DQ 662
3 G4ODA IO92WS 144 29,983 54 1,619,082 DG7TG 654
1 GW0FRE/P IO81LS 181 41,207 48 1,977,936 DK5QN 789
2 M0BUL/P IO82OI 167 30,328 49 1,486,072 PA4VHF 652
3 M1DDD/P IO93CH 172 28,105 47 1,320,935 DK1MG 726
The result would have qualified for 2nd in the unrestricted section!
Pos Call Loc QSO Score Mult Total ODX kms
1 G4CLA IO92JL 234 43,096 57 2,456,472 DG7TG 733
2 G4FZN/P IO94JF 170 37,819 49 1,853,131 DK5DQ 662
3 G4ODA IO92WS 144 29,983 54 1,619,082 DG7TG 654
