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Great contest! Too bad the 28 mhz band was closed.... -- 9A1AA Fun operation giving points out. Not as well supported by UK stns but the EU's enjoyed it. Band cndx very poor. -- C4Z It was a very interesting contest first time on it and have a lot of -- CT1DRB I was using a FT-817 with 5 watts and a wire antenna under the roof (indoor). -- DF3SM nice contest, many good ops -- DG7EE Fun contest hope it will succeed and grow in the next years! -- DJ1YFK First time to be in this Contest -- DJ6TK Some trouble with N1MM+ in S&P mode, ignoring new serial number for EI/UK stations, if previous qsos exist already. Have not observed from begin, so some wrong serials will appear. -- DL1CW The district system of UK and EI is wonderfull – thanks for this contest -- DL3KWF A very nice contest thank you very much to the organizers and to the participants for the QSOs. -- DL3KWR Think I´ll be back next time ... -- DL5JQ ICOM-7400, 80 Watts RF into Dipole 2x27m up 10m. N1MM+ had a problem with presetting exchanges in the enter window at the second QSO with a station, the number automatically resetting to the first, maybe some errors in my log before i found it. Bud had fun with the new party 73 "JO" -- DL5KUD N1MM+ "FIXED" SERIALS AND SOME OF THEM ARE WRONG. HOPE BEST LUCK NEXT YEAR. 73 AND TKS TO ALL OM'S -- EA2CW ICOM 706 MKIIG dipolo DX-B Alpha Delta HY GAIN AVQ 14 jmmaot@eresmas.com -- EA2DDE Many entrants not keeping clear of frequencies being used by DX peditions. 14023 & 21023 in particular. Unable to devote more time to Contest but looking forward to next time. Used Sd software. -- EA5ARC CHECK LOG. SORRY COMPUTER CRASH DURING TEST JUST RECOVERED -- EI3KI SD WinKey K3 P3 -- EI5DI Conditions were better than expected and enjoyed the contest. My K3 was out of action due to a fault which was greatly missed. During the contest got water in# my main beam resorted to INV-L on a few bands Maybe needs a bit more advertizing state side! -- EI5KF Very enjoyable contest and well supported. -- EI7M Used FT990 80 watts+2x40 meters Zepp. -- EU6DX 73 -- EU8F 73 ! TNX -- EW8OM First time participation. Difficult to be sure to match the frequency precision requirement with older equipment. -- F4GFT Nice new contest .. lots of EU activity. Some DQRM Sunday morning on 40m. Felt ill for much of it so apologies for asking so many repeats! Brain fuddled with paracetamol! -- G0DVJ Enjoyed the contest we plodded on at our own speed without any computer aids ie a skimmer/pc keying. Some very curteous op's who gladly slowed down for us, some who didn't which made things tough. Condx I think were similar to the SSB leg, nothing to shout about, some nice DX was logged though. We had fun anyway. Thanks to all the operators who had patience with us, and all the QSO's. SD was used for logging faultless as normal. Good work by the UKEICC team again, keep it up. 73 de FARS -- G0GHK Used SD which performed impeccably as usual Condx didn't seem to be very good :- -- G0HDB Great start to I'm sure a great contest format, nice touch working G's! N1MM+ as documented early on today by many, has a serious bug in that ALL G serials were reset to last worked serial numbers etc. NOT all calls effected though. -- G0ORH Only used a G5RV at 25 feet in the centre down to 10 feet in an Inverted V config. Hard going on the receive side i London !! Only operated 12 hours. -- G0PZA Plenty of activity and good to hear so many familiar OMs in the pile-ups. I Could have made many more 00s of Qs were I not using remote. I'm afraid that my internet connection cause excessive latency. Also N1mm+ using KY commands produced sporadic functional behaviour; sending callsign and report would sometimes fail entirely. I managed the hundred and thanks to everyone that called. -- G2F Big problem with N1MM+ busting received serial numbers. Guess I'll have lots of bust serials! -- G3P A good contest -- G3RSD Congrats on organising a new UK/EI "works the world" contest. Operating this contest is probably a bit like being IN Scandinavia for the SAC or IN Switzerland for the H22 or IN France for the REF, where operators outside the region are trying to collect the areas. There seemed to be plenty of interest with some very high QSO numbers from outside UK/EI. Hope see you again next year. 73 - Nigel G3TXF -- G3TXF Only had two dipoles covering 3 bands. Used SunSDR2PRO with Elecraft amp. Some probs with N1MM+ serial numbers -- G3XLG Conditions awful hence a half hearted entry. Reasonable support but could have been better. I had an issue with DXLog sending wrong serials at one time similar to those using N1MM had. Sent serials for QSOs 69-71 may be in error. Due to conditions some stations may have miscopied some of my exchanges and in some cases not waited for the district code the problems in working QRP. Hope this contest succeeds in coming years. 73 Dave G3YMC -- G3YMC Just a few QSOs. -- G3ZGC DXlog pretty crap and clunky but seemingly not as bad as N1mm+ -- G4BWP 40m single band entry. -- G4DBW ot possible to operate on Sunday or send in log due to computer problems but enjoyed the contest particularly when working a VK. -- G4DDX Great fun - my first 5-band contest - learnt a load of stuff - thanks to those who organised it . TX 100w Antennas - 3ele 10/15/20 tribander @ 17m, 80m & 40m dipoles @ 15m. -- G4FJK No time to enter seriously but fun to come on Sunday morning in between family stuff. Format seems to work well -- G4PIQ I suspect my log will suffer due to the Bug in N1MM+ as others have suffered. Had a lot of fun never the less.It was great to hear so much activity even though band conditions were poor with little DX being worked. A couple of very poor quality signals spoiled a few qso's (F6JOE and US2YW) and hope they get penalised in adjudication.No excuse for such lousy signals. sure it will become a regular in the contest calendar. WELL DONE. -- G6M 20m and 15m in good shape. 40 and 80m going well Saturday evening. Very enjoyable contest. -- GI4SJQ Cracking contest even on its first run - going to be a fixture ! Some PC issues but a very enjoyable time and a good chance to air the temporary GK prefix ! -- GK4AMT Great contest! Trying to get to grips with Flexradio 6300/ N1MM+ / SSDR / Soft winkey emulator. Too many unknowns so please forgive the mistakes ;-) -- GM0ELP First time using DXLog. Not too much DX. UK EI stations getting the district mults make too much focus on inter UK EI QSOs. Suggest UK EI only get DXCC entities as mults. DX gets DXCC + UKEI districts. UBN will be poor I suspect:-( -- GM0NAI Just playing. QRP with a bust antenna on 40 and 80. The event seemed to be well supported, keep up the good work. -- GM3WUX Only 3 bands and only 1/4 wave on 15m. Good activity. -- GM3X Not a lot of time to get on this time and SD didnt want to read my operational band ! But fun anyway -- GM3ZDH Enjoyed this contest, would like to see single band sections for people like me with limited antennas. -- GM4OSS After some trouble with stations expectin 5NN I changed my report by adding 5NN. The contest seems to have bee will received and I enjoyed it apart from some comlputer problems around 1500Z. Used SD logging -- GM4SID Been looking forward to this for many years. Thanks to organisers - excellent contest. Get it in the diary for the same weekend next year please. N1MM mislogged some S&P serials owing to bug. Very annoying ! Good to see some new UK callsigns in a contest. Great support by the DX stations without whom it wouldn't work. Thanks to them. -- GM4X part-time Saturday afternoon only. contest audio will be at www.gw4ble.dxlist.co.uk -- GW4BLE First attempt using Skookum Logger, just to see how it works.made quite a few mistakes, but happy I've learnt from them.. Seems to be plenty of activity/interest on 40m. Hope to have a more serious attempt next time - thanks. -- GW4OKT Part time effort of just under 12 hours, with low power (80w)and wire antennas. The early hours were slow. -- GW9J Starting the contest on the edge of a geomagnetic storm I suprisedly experienced that many staions could be operated even from UK/EI. It was a real fun to take part. Many thanks for Q's see you next time! Rig TS-530SP 100W ant 21 mtrs long end-fed wire above roof the same for all bands. -- HA2MN I thank the nice contest! -- HA3HX It seems to be a good activation! -- HA5BA ICOM756pro 100w 3el yagi GP-s -- HA6NL Nice constest but not much time. Just for fun. Tnx for qso. Ciao -- I2IFT WORKED FEW HOURS ON 80MTRS BAND ONLY. '73 DE IK6BAK ELISEO. -- IK6BAK FT 817 5W G5RVjr -- IV3DRP Many thanks for this brand new contest! Max -- IW3ILM good test for my G5RV antenna. band 10 meters closed. nice contest very well rule antenna one element and 12 hours trasmission. 73! -- IZ5FDE ENJOYED THE CONTEST BUT WAS FACED WITH SAVING THE STATION FROM THE BLIZZARD. THAT TENDS TO DELAY THINGS A BIT. LOOK FORWARD TO THE NEXT ONE. THANKS TO ALL 73 PAT K0OO -- K0OO SkookumLogger Elecraft K3 ACOM 2000A 2X Array 12-element tribander inverted-L (160m) 80m OWL-fed dipole with switched L-network matchers (80m - 10m) 40m OWL-fed dipole NE-SW with switched L-network matchers (40m - 10m) 40m OWL-fed dipole SE-NW with switched L-network matchers (40m - 10m) Fan dipole NE-SW (20m 15m 10m) W1FV 9-element receive array -- K1GQ Sorry no connection between PC and radio -- K3ZO Didn't have much time but hope to do much more next year. Thanks to the organizersand those who listened for my small signal! 73 & please enjoy my music video "I Want a Big Tower" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNWZjzrzgwA equipment: - Tentec Orion in diversity rx mode, - MFJ Grandmaster memory keyer w. Bencher BY-1 paddle, - N1MM+ running on an ancient XP laptop antennas: - 20/40/80m triple dipole, feed point at about 45 feet(9m), - 10/15/20m vertical trap dipole, feed point at about 60 feet (18m) - 500 foot (153m) crescent-shaped loop from 15 feet (4.5m) to 75 feet (23m) up in the trees -- KT8K RIG: Yaesu FT-897D PWR: 100 W ANT: G5RV -- LA4CQ Nice contest lost much time for K5P VP8SSI.I will work again next year more serious this contest. -- LY5W stupid rule to submit the log 2 hours after the end of contest.you are not important for me... -- LZ1DNY lz3yv@abv.bg -- LZ3YV Great fun. N1MM+, Winkeyer, FT-450D, 16m doublet at 12m spiderbeam mas, LDG remote tuner. approx 6hrs op time. -- M0HDF Miserable conditions -- M0MPM Good support for the first run of this contest. 9.5 hours operating and my first go a real SO2R having got all the engineering done by 10am on Saturday morning. It worked well but I have a way to go before being very good at it. Looking forwrad to the next one! -- M0PCB Sadly other committments prevented longer operation. Good contest. -- M0RYB Had the same annoying issue with N1MM as others, where QSO number was overwritten with previous QSO number from same UK/EI station when using ESM. Hopefully noticed them all in time and corrected. -- M0SAR 1st CW contest! -- M0UKR tnx for the Q's -- M0VKY Just playing this time around with a modest 12 hour effort. I like the format and rules of the contest. -- M2X Murphy brought his army and all his cousins. Had to do 12 hour entry as all the rest of the time was fixing antennas and RFI... -- M6O QUITE NEW TO CONTESTING I GOT A K3 RECENTLY AND WANTED TO PUT IT THROUGH ITS PACES AND ME! -- MM0GYX Enjoyed contest Logged using SD -- MM0JOM Really struggled with noise and low signals. Used DXLOG.net but not nearly as good as Wintest in use. Wish WT developers would get busy again. May have to try N1MM+ but hear it had issues for lots of people too :-( -- MM2N Due to conflicts, could not come back to try 40m later in the day. -- N7WY 2-hours for online is a nightmare. Times to time to get internet is not possible here in countryside! -- OH3KQ Windom antenna - one wire -- OH3WW Elecraft K2-5Want LW 42m -- OK1FKD TS 820 ant - LW -- OK2BRQ Nice to meet old friends... -- OK2FD Rig: TRX Flex 5000A, Antenna 3 element Ultrabeam 20 - 6 m. -- OK5MM After serious issues with N1MM logger (old ver. doesn't support this contest) I installed N1MM+Logger which worked UFB so I participated last hour atleast... Short 5.3m monoband vertical used only. The 6hrs category offered in N1MM+ logger but web uploader offered just 12hrs. G2ASM didn't exchanged district. 73 - Petr -- OK/M0SIS/P tcvr ICOM 735 out 90 WATTS ant Random-wire+LC-matchbox nice contest- TNX - -- OM3BA IC 746 sloper 41m -- OM4J It was a nice contest with good activity. The bands were good except 15 m and 10 m. But I enjoyed the contest and could work ZL on 15 m The resting period is too long for me. 30 min is enough I worked 9 h 46 min. Till next year. 73 Leon ON5WL -- ON5WL nice CW test -- ON7CC QRP = Trx TS130V, multiband dipole 40/80m -- OP4A Rig: Elecraft K3 - 100 Watt Ant: 20 mtr wire as Inverted-L up 12 mtr -- OU2I Rig: K3/P3 100W; Ant: 80M vert Loop & HexBeam -- OZ3SM RIG: Kenwood TS590s (100W) ANT: G5RV + 15m dipole -- OZ4CG Good luck with the new contest -- OZ8A Nice contest, fb exercise for PACC contest next month! See you all than. -- PA0CMU nice contest and deadline 2 hour after thats state of the art 73 -- PA0O The contest robot made a mistake! I am a single operator and NOT a multi operator. -- PA0QX Nice contest ! Next year again. 73, PA9CW -- PA9CW Just a few hours for fun. And to say hello to friends. Rig FT897_40W-dipole. -- PG2AA It is difficult for many participants to decipher my long callsign. -- PH6SKCC The deadline is 2 hours after the end of the contest? And if the operator is on a remote island without internet? All your QSO will be lost? -- PT9DX Tks FB test. I see You next year. -- PY7OJ Elecraft K2+Wire Antennas Flex-1500+Wire Antennas -- R2LAC E-MAIL: R3LC@MAIL.RU -- R3LC GL & 73! -- R3RU TX FT-450D 100 w ANT Windom and GP -- R3VL IV FT-2000 -- R4WT TS-590S - 100 watts 15 20 - 2 el yagi 40 - delta loop -- R6CW Elecraft K2 Ant DELTA -- R7FO TU EVERYBODY CU NEXT TIME!!! -- R7KQ KENWOOD: TS-590SG ANTENNA: HUSTLER 5BTV -- R7TO Many tnx! -- R8WO SOAB -- R8XW 73! -- RA1TV TNX! 73 de Alex -- RA3RLJ TNX!73! -- RA6AN Tks! 73! -- RG3B 73! -- RJ3F TNX 73! -- RL2D 73! -- RM1T 73! -- RM4R GL 73! -- RM6AA TNX 73! -- RN9RF I do apologize badly since the N1MM+ log happened to be very raw and a great number of serial numbers from the british stations happened to be wrong after the first contact. I noticed that very late and gave up operating. Unfortunately nothing can be improved. -- RU5TT TX: 5 WATTS ANT: MAGNETIC LOOP (INDOOR) -- RV3DBK Icom 7800 pwr 5W Ant: ECO vertical LW -- RW3AI Few sloppy ops and then you require log in 2 hours on Sunday lunch time! Make it at least two days. N1MM+ data entry format is wrong! Once upon a Turing time England knew programming... -- S56A FT-897D (100W), ANT: LW 38m (6m up) -- S57EA Remote via K3 mini > K3 -- SA4A IC-765 FB53-5 EL BEAM W3DZZ+ -- SE5L I HAD A GREAT HELP FROM SD -- SM0Y Was not able to participate fully in the contest because my wife was ill but on the other hand watched in Swedish television The Last Night of the Proms 2015 from Royal Albert Hall in London. We heard all the good old songs among them the trio "Land of Hope and Glory" in "Pomp an Circumstance March no. 1" by Sir Edward Edgar. 73 de SM5SIC Göran -- SM5S IC706MKIIGW3DZZ73' -- SO5N TRX: TS-940S 100WTTS; ANT.: LW -- SP1AEN 100W Ant LW 19m -- SP2WGB Nice contestnot too fastmany G stations. SD logger very comfortable. -- SP6BXM TRX: IC738 80W ANT: DIPOLE 2X197M & CP6 -- SP9EMI Thanks to ALL! Rig: FT817 ND + dipole 40 mtrs 73`s! Jan SP9R also SP9BRP Happy New Year ` 2016 -- SP9R rig-IC746 ; pwr-100Wtts ; ant-GP -- SQ9FMU Rookie in contests hope to have a good result! -- SY1BFI 34930 -- TA1CH This is my first UK/EI contest. -- TA3D 73 Peace at Home, Peace in the World -- TA5FA Home made 5 watts Delta. -- UA1CEG/P ua1aaq@mail.ru -- UA1F TNX 73 -- UA6CC 73! -- UR4IZ TKS for Contest -- UR5EFL Antenna Long wire 40m up 4m with tunner Rig HomeMade Pwr 20 Watt(s). -- UR5FCM FT-107m 80 w Delta 80m Streight key -- UX1CW gl -- UX1IB Tried but poor conditions here. 10 = dead, 15= all but dead, 20 = very slow here and same for 40. Maybe next year will be better Bob/VE1RSM -- VE1RSM Used "SD" by EI5DI it worked very FB -- VK4TT Enjoyed the contest although condx not the best. A clash with BARTAG RTTY Contest meant not as much time spent in this contest than I would have wished. -- VK7BO Condx not so good...QRN and QSB. Was fun though and look forward to next one. 73 Joe VO1BQ -- VO1BQ Part time operation. Hope to have better time next year -- VU2MUD 5W OUTPUT TO MULTIBAND DIPOLES. -- VU2UR sorry little result QSO. propagation ugly, all day rain. congratulations hopefully next year the results more. congratulations for the implementation of this contest, best 73 -- YC1DPM TNX for Contest QSO's 73 ! GL -- YL2PP 73 de YO3GNF, op. JACK. -- YO3GNF Could only work the last 2 hours of the test. tnx for QSOs. -- YO4NF RIG: KENWOOD TS-450SAT 100 WATTS; ANT: MULTIBAND DIPOLE FD4 -- YO4SI YAESU FT-897D RIG, DIAMOND CP-6 ANT -- YO5AXF Sorry, but N1MM+ have a bug. Exchange not saved for new value for UK and EI satation on second qso. 73 -- YO6CFB Really tough going from here in Northern ZL, only heard one G on 20. Single band entry low power 20mtrs -- ZL1BBW

Some Statistics

Total QSOs: 56350.5 Cross Checked QSOs: 36772.5 UK/EI night bonus QSOs: 818 Total Entrants: 491 UK/EI Entrants: 86 EU Entrants: 343 DX Entrants: 62 Non-entrants are all callsigns worked who didn't submit a log Total Non-entrants: 2124 UK/EI Non-entrants: 326 EU Non-Entrants: 1213 DX Non-Entrants: 585 Total Unique Non-entrants: 1325 UK/EI Unique Non-entrants: 207 EU Unique Non-Entrants: 749 DX Unique Non-Entrants: 369 Stations who paid more than a casual interest in the contest but didn't submit a log Total Non-entrants with 10 or more QSOs: 293 UK/EI Non-entrants with 10 or more QSOs: 42 EU Non-entrants with 10 or more QSOs: 208 DX Non-entrants with 10 or more QSOs: 43 Top ten UK/EI non entrants F5IN 348 QSO records with last sent serial number of 442 G4TSH 318 QSO records with last sent serial number of 411 IZ4JMA 301 QSO records with last sent serial number of 371 OM8AA 299 QSO records with last sent serial number of 369 HA6NW 290 QSO records with last sent serial number of 353 IK0YVV 275 QSO records with last sent serial number of 380 HA2PP 268 QSO records with last sent serial number of 333 US1VM 265 QSO records with last sent serial number of 331 HG8C 260 QSO records with last sent serial number of 335 YT1A 255 QSO records with last sent serial number of 373 I1WQR 251 QSO records with last sent serial number of 310 M0BKB 245 QSO records with last sent serial number of 307 F6HKA 240 QSO records with last sent serial number of 350 PA5FN 229 QSO records with last sent serial number of 280 G3KKP 225 QSO records with last sent serial number of 283 DL1NKS 225 QSO records with last sent serial number of 273 PA2W 198 QSO records with last sent serial number of 247 UR7MZ 197 QSO records with last sent serial number of 228 PA4O 197 QSO records with last sent serial number of 254 G5LP 185 QSO records with last sent serial number of 256