There were no precise target objectives, this time: I just wanted to have fun experiencing something new and, along with the joy, something good could have come from the play.

It has been pretty clear since the beginning, let's say after the first hour, that it would have been a hard saturday.
No way to run on 10, and on 15. While signals were good on 10 (most of them) it seemed that nobody could hear me.
I called CQ for many minutes, literally without any answer, and found hard also to let them hear me answering their CQ, sometimes even when there was no pileup!
I thought 10 were bad, but esperienced the same on 15, so it was just Search and Punch for a long time.
I think I have understood what does "100W and a Vertical" mean, when you are not a multiplier but just as a plain station as the rest, when the rest can run a 3 or 4 elements Yagi or a Quad or even some monobander!
This is exactly what I mean: I ended the first two hours of the contest with only 97 qso's!
Really too bad for the score, but if you are looking for hard... experience, there you are! and enough fun, anyway.
Moreover, I didn't have a 160m antenna, so nowhere to go..
Well, all in all, some info now:

     EUROPEAN HF Championship SUMMARY SHEET

     Contest Date : 04-Aug-01

    Callsign Used : J49R
         Operator : I2WIJ
         Category : CW LP
 Default Exchange : 599 73
          Country : Crete

        Team/Club : MCC - Marconi Contest Club

   BAND   Raw QSOs   Valid QSOs   Points   Zones
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   80CW       45          45         45        29
   40CW      146         146        146        48
   20CW      192         192        192        51
   15CW       97          97         97        40
   10CW       96          96         96        37
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 Totals      576         576        576       205

  Final Score = 118.080 points.

Bob, I2WIJ/J49R