I have now completed my log ready to submit. My details are as follows.
Band 80 40 20 15 10QSOs 37 161 174 40 5Bonus 35 64 50 27 5Points 860 2085 1845 715 125
TOTAL POINTS CLAIMED 5630
I had five duplicates according to my log in addition to the above making 422 QSOs overall.My logging program seemed to be having difficulties with the ZL6HQ/2 etc and kept telling me I had worked before when I thought I hadn’t and vice versa. Please can the ZL6HQ team use a different callsign differentiator next year – eg ZL6HQB, ZL6HQC etc.
Allan VK2GR has a magic antenna as regards working Europe on 80. He says conditions were wonderful at UK sunset and woeful at VK sunrise to G. I thought they were pretty mediocre throughout and worked just four G’s of which three were GM’s. I couldn’t get GB5CC or GW6XX to hear me at all.
Throughout Sunday I got plenty of RBN hits on 10 from all over Asia but not one BERU contact from those areas. Just four VK’s and a solitary ZL – thanks Mike ZL1MH.
The pattern of previous years was repeated whereby fewer and fewer contestants were on from outside G/VE/VK/ZL and this was exacerbated this year by the lack of travellers (excluding the virtual traveller to ZF2).
Noticeable absences from my log in particular were 3B8, any Pacific other than 5W1 and very few Caribbean stations. Plenty of RBN hits on all bands from 80 thorough 15 from PJ2T though. I have not worked ZB2 in BERU for many years (remember ZB2EO) but it was good to work 9H1 and 5B4 this year as well as Brian, 9J2BO after missing him for a couple of years. Do any ZS stations actually take part in BERU ? I never hear any.
Anyway it was great to work lots of old (and new) friends and we can but hope that we actually get some really good conditions next year.
Barry VK2BJ