I entered VHF NFD as a "Sweeper", so S&P only, no CQ's allowed.

I enjoyed spending time on Sunday trying to winkle out all the portable stations on 70MHz. Some were heard calling/working other portables but never appeared to call CQ themselves. Some last minute sporadic E gave some nice DX, with SP3RNZ also heard but he never called CQ either.

Activity on 432MHz seemed reasonable, with a definite North Sea tropo lift to the NE on Saturday night with OZ1ALS S9++, but very few stations active and calling CQ from that direction. The rest of the DX was worked by aircraft scatter.

There were relatively few UK portables out on 1.3GHz so scores are inevitably a bit lower than might otherwise be hoped for, but again there was some nice aircraft scatter DX to be had. OZ9PZ was worked on tropo rather than AS.

The higher microwave bands had no UK activity, so a few PA/DL QSOs were all that were made on these bands with OZ1ALS and F1AZJ/P as highlights on 13cm and 6cm. OZ1ALS was detectable on 10GHz but just too weak to work. While no rain scatter was seen, DB0GHZ was heard via tropo at more than 500km on 3cm. A test with LA4YGA (JO48BE) was unsuccessful.

73

John G3XDY

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