[UK-CONTEST] ARRL DX CW

[Dave Lawley]

I'm rather surprised not to see any reports on uk-contest from the ARRL 
contest. It's one of the biggest events of the year, and one of my 
favourites. Lest it should be thought there's little interest in this 
contest within G, there are a couple of interesting data points on the 
scores reflector http://lists.contesting.com/pipermail/3830/

Big US multi-multis K3LR and KC1XX have posted their claimed scores, 
together with a breakdown by country. W3LPL will post in the near future 
as well no doubt.

Taking as an example the 20m figures, adding the UK totals together (G, 
GM, GW, GU etc) and comparing with other major Eu countries, it's no 
surprise that most QSOs occurred with Germany but we're well ahead of 
all the others:

UK 167   DL 245   F 82   I 133   OK 108   UA  98
UK 163   DL 223   F 69   I 129   OK  97   UA 126

Contest sponsors like to receive entries - it's the main way that they 
gauge support for their events - so this is a plea to all UK contesters 
who made some QSOs in the ARRL contest to send in your log. You never 
know, you may win a band award!

Dave G4BUO