Enjoyable contest with much improved HF conditions but much lower activity. Or is it me ?

Recovery from major surgery taking its toll on my concentration , so just a 12 hour restricted entry.

100watts to a 100 foot doublet. My main HF antenna decided it didn’t want to do BERU this year at no notice. So just a Saturday 1000-2200 effort from me this year. 20 open with no BERU traffic until I went QRT at 2200. Quick forays onto 40 and 80 were pretty slow going – auroral flutter made for a few repeats, except for the outstanding signal from VK1A/4 on 40 .

So – I had fun S&P on the many VK and VE team players and all the World Travellers. Thanks to all of them for livening up the contest – without them BERU would become a 3 country contest.

Outside of VK/ZL didnt hear a single Asian/Far East station this time.

Delighted to work ZD7 on 3 bands and pick up the VY1 Yukon station . How does G3TXF achieve such good sigs everywhere he travels? By far the strongest 5B with me, and I only missed him on 80m cos I went QRT early.

Band Q
80 3
40 6
20 52
15 46
10 27

Claimed pts 2,805

73

Bob G4DBW