The team arrived in good time on Friday before the 0000 UTC start. The team consisted of Simon M0CLW, Mark M0DXR, Simon 2E0CVN, Peter G3TJE, Pete M3PHP and me G6PZ.

Our target number of qso’s this year was 3000, we ended up with over 4000.

Condititions on the bands were reasonable given where we are in the cycle which allowed us to run high rates at in the order of over 600 an hour at times.

The star band was 30m, huge pileups allowed split operations that were a blast. The MonstIR yagi really performs on this band with callers from VK, JA, BG, NA to name a few.

The IC 7800 was well received by all op’s and performed flawlessly. The Orion performed well as usual, but can’t wait to get our hands on the IC7700’s.

Murphy did call however as a serial pci card in the Orion logging computer failed at the start which lost our cat rs232 interface.

A good effort and appologies to those we missed especially on 30m with a  broken rotator fixing the MonstIR on JA which is due replacement soon for a Prosistel PST 71.

Many thanks to all that called us and made this a very enjoyable event.

CU next year

73 Paul

G6PZ