For the first time in a few years I had a more serious attempt at this contest, with some degree of success but a lot of frustration.

During daylight hours noise from a neighbouring solar system reaches S9 when beaming East, any antenna heading between 60 and 120 degrees is difficult. I should have persevered more on Sunday as conditions seemed quite good to DL, but really focused my efforts on working East from 1800z to 2315z on Saturday. Signals from the big contest groups were loud, and a couple of OK's in JO60 were audible on tropo. (Airscout was out of action on Saturday, so any aircraft scatter contacts were by chance). EA1DR was detectable but too weak to work.

On Sunday I was expecting to work lots of QRP backpackers in their contest but that quickly seemed to dry up. Activity from France was good though.

Claimed Score: 89,819 points from 268 QSOs. Best DX OK4C in JO60LJ at 838km. 69 squares in 15 countries.

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John G3XDY