[UK-CONTEST] IOTA 2006

[Graeme Caselton]

and from one of the smaller contest stations:

               10m   15m   20m   40m   80m  Total
Valid QSOs:     2     7    48    55     2    114
Multipliers:    1     5    30    29     1     66
Points:        18    81   504   597    18   1218

for 80388 points as SINGLE-OP ALL LOW SSB UNASSISTED 12-HOURS.

Although not as impressive as many contest stations, I beat my
personal targets of more mults worked [42] by the time I had reached
last years QSO total [76]. Actually hit the target on QSO 64. Then
QSO 65 gave me enough points to beats last years score. Well pleased.

Band conditions here meant only one AF worked [EC8ADW] and only two
NA worked [VE3ZZ/VY2 and VC2W]. Of the 63 EU multipliers worked, 27
were all time new islands. My grateful thanks to the DXpeditions!

What I did find was that there were hardly any EU-005 stations
calling CQ. This proved to be one of the hardest [rarest?]
multipliers to work [only M3RCV-GM7M on 40m and M3RCV on 20m].

The only downside....Swains Island activity causing 50kHz+ of QRM
when working split from 14.200MHz.

Most enjoyable contest! Having worked special station DR6IOTA
[EU-129]during the contest, perhaps next year GB6IOTA [EU-005]?

Graeme
G6CSY
www.g6csy.net/ham

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