Hi Bob

first thanks for your publicity efforts again.

The xyl and I rented a house overlooking Discovery Bay on the north coast here and it was fine, about 200 ft up overlooking the bay

with a verandah, used for operating.Cool but dark at 5 am start here !

Thanks to Nigel 6Y5HN for help and suggesting asking for the shorter call, obtained easily from the local licence office at no cost,but maybe it confused some ops.One G.XX did not recognise me being in the contest, which lost a few points! The suitcase verticals worked ok but it was a 5 min trip down the slope to switch the loading coil in for 80m when asked to QSY ! Then back again after the call, phew! hoho.Conditions were poor on 20m on saturday, some did not hear my calls, better on Sunday,The good news here is when G closes VE is still open and VE5 6 7 can be worked.10m was patchy, 15m was good, 20m poor on saturday, 40m good but noisy, 80m noisy and I failed to appear on 80 sunday morning for various stupid reasons, but got on 40m ok,,Great to work so many VEs and G s, and thanks to Andy 5Z4VJ for turning his beam my way after many tries,

I had a nap this year , trying to work out when is hard with a 5 hour difference when brain dead ! A very enjoyable trip again, despite less activity its still a yearly highlight.

Many thanks to the HQ stations who make it much busier for no score, cracking signals too!

403 QSO s , maybe 4k points if N1MM+ is right…

Mike 6Y6YI (G3VYI)