[UK-CONTEST] ZL2BR Beru 2009

[Frank Hunt]

Conditions were pretty much the same as last year.

Some good stuff:
At least 21 ZL stations were active
80m - VQ9JC, P3J, C4Z, ZC4VJ & VP8KF
20m - VY1EI & VK9AA

Top highlight goes to the long path contact with VO1MP on 40m, which
is very unusual for me. Working east coast North America via LP on 
20m is pretty common from ZL, but don't think have ever worked a NA
station on 40m via LP before. Even more interesting is that this
happened at 1915utc which is an hour after our sunrise and 2 hours
before VO1 sunset.

The bad stuff:
Local EMI noise on 40 and 80, around S5 continuously.
Very frustrating not being unable to copy all the G & VE stations 
that were calling me. As expected no African stations were heard. 
First time for many years that I did not work GB5CC, with only 5 G 
stations worked on 20m.

Some signal reports:
On  40m, majority of  UK stations seemed weaker than expected, best
was perhaps G3FPQ, followed by G3BJ and G6PZ. Nice signals from VP8KF
on 3 bands. Poor signals from all the Caribbeans, never heard J38CW,
best was J88DR. 9H3JT extremely weak. In general VK6 stations were
much stronger than the other VK stations on 40 and 20. As usual best
VE on all bands was VE3EJ

QSO Summary:
Band		G	VE	VK	ZL	RoW		All	Bonuses
3.5		12	15	18	14	6		65	43
7		42	33	28	11	14		128	60
14		5	11	25	11	8		60	46
21		7	2	4		13		13
28					1			1	1
Totals		59	66	73	41	28		267	163

Rig: TS-2000, AL80B, Tribander, 40m  GP, 80m Inv vee

73 de Frank ZL2BR