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Checklogs received with thanks from : DL1JHW, DL3BVA, DM4KJ, EA4CU, EI8JX, EW6F, F3WT, G3N, G3SQU, G3ZRN, G4MEM, G6GLP, GS8VL, GW9J, HA9TA, HL4RBR, IK6BAK, IK8TEO, K1SX, LY5O, LY6A, OG55W, OK1NE, OK2SG, OM6MS, PC3H, RA3VX, S58Q, SM0HRP, SP2ADY, SP2MHD, UA3SKV, UT5PY, UX2IJ, UZ5DM, YB1ZFB, YL2QN Soapbox Comments OPERATED LESS THAN 6 HOURS BUT THE BOX WAS ONLY FOR 12/24 HOURS -- 4X0A Fine contest, condx variable though. Useful for collecting missing EU countries/bands etc. Alas heard no GD nor GJ stations. Tks et 73 -- 5P6P Elecraft KX3 - 100W Inverted-L up 12mtr -- 5P90EDR Nice contest operating as a qrp is funny. -- CT1DRB RIG TS-850s Ant 40m fullsize dipole @30m -- DK2FG nice contest :-) -- DK9OY Break times: * begin until 20:00 UTC * 23:15 until 07:30 UTC * early end at 10:50 UTC -- DL1CW Next year I will take part full time. Fine Contest. -- DL5JQ Max power used was 75W into an inv. L antenna. I joined just for a few hours and had lots of fun. -- DL7GEM Very Very Bad Condx so i make the 12 hours only using SD almost -- DL8UD Nice contest and bad propagation. 0 Qso's in 10 and 15 meters Conditions : Elecraft KX3 Power 5 watts Mosley TA-53M for 10-15-20 Dipole for 80-40 -- EA3KX Nice contest. I hope the next year better score with my QRP 5W. The propsgstion very bad. Thank you for the organitation contest. See you soon EA7AAW/QRP -- EA7AAW SD WinKey K3 -- EI5DI Elecraft K3 10W and eco7+ antenna. -- ES1BH TRX - FT-840 Ant - Delta Loop 168m -- EU6AA TRX-US2II PWR-100W ANT-Inverted V. -- EW2EG checklog -- F3WT Second time participation. Difficult to be sure to match the frequency precision requirement with older equipment. -- F4GFT TS 570 + Lévy -- F6JOE QTH Poitou Charentes -- F/G4BJM Enjoyable contest despite the poor conditions. -- G0BBO Condx were poor through out, though some DX made it in to the log. Seemed to be a lack of UK & EI stns on the lower bands, and during double points hours. Enjoyed the contest again this year. 73 and GL to all from Finningley ARS -- G0GHK Came on for an hour or so with "dipole in tree" to make a little activity. Good to be back on the air! -- G0MTN DREADFUL BAND CONDX'S SOLAR STORM, QSB KNOCKING OUT SN'S ALL WEEKEND. WE CAN BUT TRY!! GOTTA BE INIT TO WIN IT!!! -- G0ORH Wish I could have put more time to it very enjoyable time allowed seemed well supported by the DX Guys. condx's could have been better - nil on 10M & just a few on 15M. SD proformed superbly look forward to the next one. -- G3LHJ Unable to participate shortly after start of contest -- G3N Very difficult finding UKEI multipliers. -- G3RLE Condx awful ! I was restricted to two and a bit bands as no 80m antenna at the moment. -- G3Y I had great hopes for this contest but sadly the sun had other ideas.. A K index of 4-5 and high solar wind made the bands largely dead even 80m was a struggle. Under the circumstances I am surprised even to have the QSOs I did. -- G3YMC Nice friendly contest. I hope it takes off in the future as it seemed to work well. Entered in memory of Steve G4BLE -- G4DDL I had very poor conditions with only a few G's and even EI's. Had a problem when i did not notice that comms had stuck. Had to edit first 5 as on wrong band. Murphy again! Vert strange no inter G propogation or EI with me for most of the time.Used SD which perfomed. -- G4DDX Msg for Adjudicator - I duplicated sent QSO S/N's 54 to 83, hence a checklog, apologies. -- G4MEM Just giving a few points away as moving shack and testing new rig. Seemed VERY lively. Will be more dedicated next year for sure. -- G4SGX Part time effort due to family commitments AGAIN Grrrr. Horrible band conditions due to solar storm. It seems these storms follow us around on contest weekends these days. Very little from out of EU. -- G6M Excellent contest format. I hope the DX stations enjoyed it. -- G8X Some tricky conditions Pity about clash with CFO competition -- GM3A FT1000MP 90w. Dipole for 40m and 20m at 9m Inverted-vee for 80m at 10m -- GM4JYB Logging problems this time with serial numbers missing while logging and all sorts of stuff wrong with the format Odd conditions with 20m closed by 16:00Z on saturday.15m opened on Sunday morning for a while and 10m did open Sunday morning with only German beacons being heard.Some stations seem to mix up GM4M with M4M sending me worked B4 message :( Enjoyable contest but not many UK and EI districts heard. -- GM4M Conditions were very poor. Enjoyed having a "wee" go though -- GM4UYZ Only had time for a few short runs due to visitors. Conditions awful. -- GS8VL Lot of thanks for all QSO and who called me! Unfortunately conditions was not good. Rig: FT-1000MP mark V field Ant: OCF-dipole -- GU3HFN High magnetic activity made it a bit of a struggle but participation seemed good. Hope entering a zero for when no serial was given won't increase my inevitable bust rate... -- GW4J Had visitors all weekend so no time for even a 12 hour entry. Gave away the mult on the five bands that were open here on Sunday morning -- GW9J Not so good condition! -- HA7PL Only 20 minuts free time for contest. :) Tnx for any QSO. 73! -- HA8AR E-MAIL: FT747DX MONOBAND GP -- HA9TA Elecraft K3 100 Watts 2 elements 28/21/14 MHz - Dipole 7 MHz - Inverted L for 3.5 MHz -- HB9ARF Had computer problems so had to stop working. -- HS0ZLM BAD CONDITION -- I0ZUT Alla sua prima prova si è rivelato un buon contest con potenzialità che sicuramente si svilupperanno nelle edizioni successive. A mio parere una nota positiva è stata quella di pèermettere il qso dx/dx mentre mi è parsa discutibile la suddivisione dell'operatività in 12 e 24 ore.In generale è comunque andato bene anche se non mi è sembrata molto folta la presenza delle stazioni UK/EI. Alla prossima '73 ik0pxd Maria -- IK0PXD Shortage of uk/ei stations working the contest! It's a pity, the formula is ok! Hope the event will be more participated in ssb leg. -- IK8UND Un bellissimo contest tante stazioni presenti propagazione discreta solo 100w e g5rv Ts2000 - mi sono divertito. -- IT9CKA Kenwood ts590s ant. G5RV pwr 90w -- IZ5FDE ICOM IC-7100 100W OUTPUT 12AVQ 3Band Vertical Inv Vee -- JA2KKA RIG:IC-706 50W ANT:Vertical -- JA3JM I enjoyed the contest. -- JG2RFJ Thanks to all the EU stations who worked me - band conditions were extremely challenging. -- K0MD BAD PROPAGATION CONDITIONS AND A LOT OF OTHER DISTRACTIONS THIS YEAR. WELL HERE IS ONE FOR THE SPORT. I LOOK FORWARD TO THE NEXT EVENT. HOPE TO SEE YOU IN THE SSB VERSION. -- K0OO SkookumLogger K3 2000A 2XA-3B-12L OB2-40 wires -- K1GQ There were few stations loged non-contest with 001, just for my LoTW ADIF -- LY5W Very popular contest - hard work on 40m band during the evening, but easier copy on 20m on Sunday morning. -- M0UAT tough conditions. -- M0VKY Poor Conditions. -- M4J Poor condx but contest took my mind off new dentures! Win-Test scored DX station incorrectly - 1 point instead of 4 I think. -- M6W 20/40m fan dipoles @ 10.5m TS590S, Acom 1000, N1MM+ First time HP & unassisted. Not the best condx but fair level of participation it seems to me. Good contest. Tnx for the QSOs. 73s -- M8A First time in this contest - and enjoyed it. Pity we can't use or contest call signs. CUAGN Jim 73 -- MM0DXH Not much time this year, so gave a few points on 40M. -- MM0T Poor condx but another test of my dodgy CW with CWGET reader and N1MM+ -- MM1E Very poor conditions made this hard work but there a plenty people supporting this in EU. Need support from NA although I'm sure the bad conditions made it seem less supported than it was. MAde one big error by watching TV when I should have been on 80m working strings of G's. -- MM2N Although everything was normal on the logging screen SD has not logged the frequencies -- MM3N 80M OCFD did not like 15m, but KAT500 managed to tune it to allow some contacts. Aurora on Saturday evening and 20m shut down early. Hardly anyone on 80m at 8am despite strong inter G signals from non-contesters??? -- MM3T Good bit of fun getting used to my new IC7300, what a difference to my 746 :-) -- MW0BRO TNX and 73 -- N1SOH Poor condx and TStorms but wanted to checkout newest addition to TR4W logging. -- N4AF 2017 UK/EI DX CW Contest -- N4BP Probably the worst conditions for a contest in years-K index was at 6 most of the time. Still fun. NJ4Q -- NJ4Q Sampled 14 MHz with OF5ZA and 7 MHz with OF2MZA -- Antenna 12 m wire sloping from the balcony... Cheers/73, Zaba OH1ZAA -- OF2MZA Tough K=6 Aurora on Saturday. A few short samples taken. Nice contest, interesting rules... Cheers/73, Zaba OH1ZAA -- OF5ZA RIG FT817 ANT MLA 1M -- OK1DCP Elecraft K2-5W ant. LW 42m -- OK1FKD My rig: ICOM 706 50 W , ant. LW 10 m on balcon at 2nd floor. -- OK2BOB TS480SAT -100W, ANT: MULTIBAND VERTICAL -- OK4RQ SD software -- OL3E tcvr ICOM 735 out 90 Watts ant Randomwire+LCmatchbox -- OM3BA I had to use my old FT901DM from 1980 and it worked very good. Band changing took some more time for tuning There was good activity but the propagation was only moderate. But I could work many stations and I enjoyed the contest. Till next year. 73 Leon ON5WL -- ON5WL Just for some fun -- OO9O I declare that the contest rules and the rules in my country have been observed during the contest. Equipment Yaesu FTDX5000MP antenna Mosley TA53M with 40m kit diple Center fed on 80m -- OS0S Interesting contest - but very bad condex. Can only be better nest time. -- OZ1AAR Just for fun. Part time operation and not during nighttime. 73 to all -- OZ8AE Nice contest till 2018 CW -- PA0RHA Tnx fer Contest, rig ft2000, pwr 75w, ant dipole 2x10m up 10m -- PA1LEX Tnx for contest! -- PA5SKY It was a nice contest. Not to many uk stations to work for me because i didn't have 80 meters on air -- PC2D Thanks for the nice contest! Only 20 meters 25 watts. 73 PD3J -- PD3J MNY TNX & 73's! -- R3LC FT 2000 IV -- R4WT 12 Hours Time -- R8TT Thanks, just a joy! -- R9AB ALL TNX! 73! CU AGN in HF! -- R9LM 73! -- RA3XCZ GOOD CONTEST -- RA4HBS tnx for fb contest -- RA7A GL es 73! -- RJ3F TX 5W Ant Indoor MagLoop -- RV3DBK 33 w ant delta -- RV3VR pwr 5W Ant: ECO vertical LW -- RW3AI RIG: FT897D @ 5W Out ANT: LongWire 40m @ 6m UP -- S57EA missing my previous QTH when I used a 5 el beam.nowdays only a W3DZZ. 73 to all from Sweden -- SM5ALJ TRX: TS-940S 100WTTS ANT.: LW -- SP1AEN Ant LW10m -- SP2HMY LOW POWER -- SP2MHD rig-IC746 ; pwr-100Wtts ; ant-GP and LongWire 56M -- SQ9FMU 73 & TNX -- TA2BS IC-7600 7 EL 3 BAND (20-15-10) HOME MADE YAGI -- TC571SAV TNX TEST! 73! -- UA6HFI Conditions was very bad and numer of participant no more than for 12 hours category -- UF5D 73! -- UN8PT ur5efl -- UR5EFL Well much uzh faded test, yes and passing nor to devil, little stations, sting, did not want time to kill. -- UR7MZ single-element antenna -- US3EW Icom IC-756pro3 Delta loop -- US7IGN SDR trcvr SunSDR2-PRO PA 100 W. Antenns 1608040 - dipole Up18m fider 70m. 201510 - Spider Up 10m fider 30m. -- UT4LW Ant: A wire V-beam arms abt 42m the angle - 50 degrees up - 52m 75 Ohm cable 1:9 baloon. Equipment - IC-756PRO homemade tuner. -- UT5UQV TNX for contest ! -- UT7E 73! -- UX2IJ Do not count ON4UN QSO; out of contest. -- VE2BWL Conditions so difficult but still fun. See you next year. Claude VE2FK -- VE2FK jbfd2017 -- YE1ZAL rig: ts140s abt 100w ant: dipole mb -- YO2CJX good contest. thanks for all, 73, Károly/yo2gl -- YO2GL 73 de YO3GNF, op. JACK. -- YO3GNF RIG: KENWOOD TS-450SAT 100 WATTS; ANT: Multiband Dipole FD4 -- YO4SI 12 hours -- YO5OAC FT857D & dipole -- YO5ODT Best contest -- YO9HG FT-950 + PA 300W DELTALOOP V -- YP5A Single operator - assisted -- YT1FZ

Some Statistics

Total QSOs: 40139 Cross Checked QSOs: 26719 UK/EI night bonus QSOs: 376 Total Entrants: 440 UK/EI Entrants: 69 EU Entrants: 316 DX Entrants: 55 Non-entrants are all callsigns worked who didn't submit a log Total Non-entrants: 1642 UK/EI Non-entrants: 226 EU Non-Entrants: 1116 DX Non-Entrants: 300 Total Unique Non-entrants: 1013 UK/EI Unique Non-entrants: 124 EU Unique Non-Entrants: 688 DX Unique Non-Entrants: 201 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: 226 UK/EI Non-entrants with 10 or more QSOs: 42 EU Non-entrants with 10 or more QSOs: 167 DX Non-entrants with 10 or more QSOs: 17 Top 20 non entrants F5IN 355 QSO records with last sent serial number of 450 F6HKA 333 QSO records with last sent serial number of 453 IK0YVV 267 QSO records with last sent serial number of 356 OM8AA 260 QSO records with last sent serial number of 327 IK3UNA 246 QSO records with last sent serial number of 302 HA6NW 206 QSO records with last sent serial number of 244 OK6K 203 QSO records with last sent serial number of 251 GM3WIJ 201 QSO records with last sent serial number of 250 I2CZQ 199 QSO records with last sent serial number of 229 DL5YM 185 QSO records with last sent serial number of 229 OM8LA 181 QSO records with last sent serial number of 315 S51TA 155 QSO records with last sent serial number of 202 OL1M 147 QSO records with last sent serial number of 199 E74X 137 QSO records with last sent serial number of 164 IZ4JMA 135 QSO records with last sent serial number of 159 IQ2CJ 133 QSO records with last sent serial number of 176 S55N 129 QSO records with last sent serial number of 150 OE8Q 129 QSO records with last sent serial number of 150 OK7PN 128 QSO records with last sent serial number of 152 G3UFY 126 QSO records with last sent serial number of 161