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Checklogs received with thanks from : SQ9FQY, YO3GNF, PA3I, HG3C, IV3HAX, IK2MXM, DK2FG, UA9WTF, HA5CRT, PA1CEX, G3TJE, M0VKY, IZ3ALW, SP4DNX, RA1CE, G3SQU, DL5JS, HA8TP, G4CIB, IK2CFD, F6HDI, PA1FNW. Soapbox Licenced 25.5.2017. -- 9A3SMS Part time fun. Extra condix to USA on 80m @sunday morning. Missed UA3 on all band because of RUS MM ctest :) 73 de Vedran -- 9A7DX Great ops. See you next year! -- AE1T Rig: Elecraft K3, 80w out ant: Vertical & 30m wire -- DF3OL unfavorable deadline together with the RUSSIAN DX CONTEST -- DL2BQV TS 850 S - 2x 195m - Dipol - Hühnerleitung -- DL2ZA KX3, 100Watt -- DL4ZBY UK/EI DX CONTEST -- DL5KBO 80 W IC-7400 DIPOL UP 7 M; -- DL5KUD FUNNY CONTEST. SEE YOU NEXT YEAR. -- EA1XT Weird propagation with a handful of UK/EI stations heard here in Northern Spain in 40 or 20 meters. No 80 meter antenna here. Until next year! -- EA2SN Thanks to the organization contest. See you soon EA7AAW Emilio -- EA7AAW Better conditions than expected. Enjoyed the contest. -- EI5KF 73 !!! -- EN4U Used FT990 100w + LW 42m -- EU6DX Tks for contest -- EX8MJ casual participation - was hoping to log more UK stations -- F4GFT only 40m -- F5OHM Apologies to contacts! Wrongly sent district code as AB, but it should have been AL (mix up with N1MM). I hope you don't lose points. -- G0MDR THOSE LOGGED WITH A ZERO FULL EXCHANGE SENT BY ME WOULD NOT LOG IN N1MM. 12HR K3 KPA500 BEAM WIRES. 400 -- G0ORH great -- G2AA Condx's fair - apart from not calling the RU MM gang all was well very enjoyable contest pity could not have put in some more time cu next year - think it was well supported by the high S/N heard at the end. -- G3L Scoreboard used for first time not a great score may 24 hour from club next time? -- G3LRS G0MDR was sending AB as postcode which is invalid - my log is as he sent. -- G3P Bad conditions Pity no EIs heard during daylight hours SD worked well -- G3PLE Introducing my new uBITx txvr on 40m (running 5W) and 80m (running 8W). The wideband (SSB) receiver made it hard work for CW on these busy bands. It was a bit easier on 20m with my TenTec Century-22 (running 20W). Apologies to LZ2HR for the DUP I thought I was calling another station! -- G3SQU Good fun & plenty of activity! -- G3SWC LIMITED TIME - CHECKLOG FOR INFO -- G3TJE Single element antenna = hmbrew 50 ft vertical and atu s, zip on 15/10m here! pc locked up a few times! Thanks for the contest organisers!. -- G3VYI Great Contest format, really enjoyed it, pity conditions deteriorated for Sunday morning -- G3XLG This is my first try at the UK/EI CW contest and my first time using Rumlog. I'll do better next time! -- G4AJY Enjoyed using a very simple rig with a DC Rx and 2 watt output from Tx - a challenge! -- G4CIB Enjoyable contest - like the online log scoring system - added to the fun ! -- G4DBW Very poor conditions and the other contests running in parallel made this hard work. More or less gave up on Saturday night! -- G4DDL All bands were poor with nothing on 15 or 10. Virtually no inter G or EI the whole contest with me. which was dissapointing with qrm from other conests. Also had comms failure which took nearly an hour to suss out at the start. Used SD as usual with no fault -- G4DDX Only a part time effort. -- G4EBK Thia was my first UKEICC DX CW so thanks to everyone behind the scenes for organising this enjoyable contest. Thanks for the Q's and I hope to be back next year with hopefully better condx. 73, Phil G4NVR -- G4NVR Couple of hours operating grabbed when I could find time. Fun. -- G4PIQ Much fun, quite busy. Messed up my 12 hr timing tactics though. -- G4SGX Band QSOs Pts DXC DIS Pt/Q 3.5 115 464 25 29 4.0 7 198 812 35 15 4.1 14 129 310 31 7 2.4 Total 442 1586 91 51 3.6 Score: 225,212 1 Mult = 3.1 Q's Excellent contest rules. Pity the date clashed with the Russian all mode/bands contest which caused some confusion at first. Many more qso's would have resulted if the clash of dates had not occurred. Had some issues with N1MM+ this time. Of my own making am afraid. It took several hours to figure out what the problem was but once fixed I was able to run with no further glitches. Great to monitor the Contest Online ScoreBoard which certainly had many stations contributing and seeing their scores accumulating. 12hr cat was just about right for me especially over an important holiday weekend. Band conditions were just average for this stage of the SS Cycle with no qso's on 10 or 15m. Leaving 20m and 40m as the main bands. 80m played quite well considering, with low noise level at this qth for once. All in all a fun contest gradually establishing a good reputation. Rig was an Elecraft K3/100 100w , Antenna's 5 band H/B Cobwebb 20-10m @ 13m Dual band Inv vee dipole for 80 and 40m @ 18m N1MM+ Logging software All being well see you next year. Thanks to the organizers for all their time and efforts. 73/88 Vic G4BYG (G6M) -- G6M Good fun. QRP with 4.5 Watts from YouKits EK-1C to dipoles on 20 and 40m. Got my first ever QRP transatlantic contacts and my best ever QRP dx. Thanks to all the operators and organisers. -- GM0EUL Good conditions on 20m on Saturday. 15m and 10m poor as expected. 73 -- GM2V Dipped in and out this year, conditions better than last year -- GM4M First outing in this event, part time effort. Good fun, despite dire conditions. 20m relay in SixPack decided to pack in with an hour to go. -- GM5X Entered as a check log, not enough time for a serious entry. Thanks. -- GW4MVA Just a few hours worth, but great fun and well supported FB. -- GW4OKT Conditions were painful! -- GW9J TNX,MNI 73.. -- HA5CRT Poor condx here in Thailand -- HS0ZLM Some confusion due to another contest so for some stations 0 (zero) serial number has been reported. -- I2WIJ just 2 hours during the easter morning... -- I5ECW Kenwood TS 950SD ANT. Trap dipole at 7.5 m. gnd -- IK2AUK UKEIDX 2018 CW -- IK4OMO Bello molto bello questo Contest mi sono divertito - molta presenza stazioni UK-EI ho provato il mio ICOM IC 736 Antenna GP e 100watt - -- IT9CKA First time on a serious SOAB LP CW entry since quite some time. Lots of stations were taking part to the Russian Multimode contest and I am pretty sure I'll get a high number of uniques even if I was calling CQ UK/EI ...most people doesn't listen and just clicks on spots and call. Thanks for the contest, had been a fun 12 hours. -- IZ3NVR nice contest cu next year 73 de iz5ich -- IZ5ICH RIG:IC-706 50W ANT:Vertical -- JA3JM Thank you for organizing the contest. I Participated 40m and 20m band. I used 1element wire loop antenna with ATU for all band. -- JA5QJX/0 I enjoyed the contest ! -- JE3ECD I enjoyed the contest. -- JG2RFJ I enjoyed the contest. -- JH8CXW ENJOYED THE CHALLENGE SEE YOU ALL AGAIN -- K0OO SkookumLogger K3 KPA1500 2XA-3B-12L OB2-40 wires -- K1GQ No sun spots ! ? -- K2RK First contest where I ever used an amp at my home QTH. Clearly it makes a difference. -- KE2D TS-590S set to 5W QRP and 200m Long Wire antenna -- LY5G TNX, 73 -- LY5O My neighbor LEDs made me angry and cant finish contest -- LY5W Other commitments permitted only six and a half hours working. -- M0DCG just having a bit of fun giving some points away, only 1 UK/EI stn in the log, but not QRV on 80 hr yet. 73+GL all. -- M0HOM Part time effort during Easter weekend. I just wanted to test my K3. Rule says "connected" but log uploader says "assisted" !!!! -- M5Z Wintest didn't score properly. Not sure if user set up error or bug. Expect score to go up a bit. I think this is a 12 hour contest not enough UK/EI activity for 24 hours. I actively ran and chased Post Codes didn't bother too much about DX... -- MD4K Some good runs. Need to try overnight next year -- MI4I Great fun but noise at my QTH made weak signals very difficult. Bring on better band conditions next year. -- MM2N THIS CONTEST SEEMS IS BECOMING POPULAR. USED SD LOGGING WHICH AGAIN RAN PERFECTLY -- MM3N Very enjoyable but only able to manage a few hours at the radio. Good participation outside Eu. -- MW0BRO First UK/EI DX Contest -- N1NN single band, 20m - conditions not great, but did not hear but 2 Russia MM participants -- N7WY This contest for NEW ENGLAND USA only,not for rest of american hamradio operators.Thanks all who is call me for my CQ test. 73! Vic N8OO -- N8OO At QSO number 67 i worked G4SGX and received 599 287 and NK district. I typed NL instead of NK because NK district was unfortunately NOT (!) available from DXLog software: It must be a small bug that anybody cannot type NK for the district!!! -- OE1CIW 3.5 Mhz only. Low efficiency low sloper wire used but conditions fair to good. Cheers/73, Zaba OH1ZAA -- OH1QX Tnx for the test! -- OH2KW 7 MHz only. Good signals night time... Cheers/73 Zaba OH1ZAA -- OH2MZA Low geomagnetic activity and strong signals with long skip. Only 14 MHz with two Eire station worked, 1 heard.. Cheers/73, Zaba OH1ZAA -- OH5ZA My first entry in this contest. Thanks to all who heard my QRP signal, especially on 80 m band (5 W out. into an indoor half-size G5RV antenna).I look forward to my participation next year. -- OK1DSA Bad coincidence with Russian Multi Mode Contest. -- OK1RR Antennas MLAs on 35MHz/7MHz & 14MHz. -- OM4ANO The condx were not very good. Only on saturday evening on 80 m I could work a high qso rate. But I could work a lot of qso and enjoyed the contest. It is a contest with good rules. Till next year. 73 Leon ON5WL -- ON5WL Rig- Elecraft K3 100 Watt Ant- 20mtr wire up 12mtr as Inverted-L -- OU2I Rig: Elecraft K3/P3 Ant: 80m Loop vertical and Hexbeam -- OZ3SM More contest QRV THAT TIME. A PITY. -- PA0WKI Nice contest. See y'all the next time. -- PD3OES 100w ANT GP -- RA1QN 73! -- RA3XCZ TNX 73! -- RM4F TX 5W Ant Indoor MagLoop -- RV3DBK 73! -- RW0UM pwr 5W Ant: ECO vertical LW -- RW3AI I give the points to all who wanted. There is another contest in same time - stations with 0 in received report don't count! -- S51DX FEW HOURS FOR FUN!BIG MESS WITH RUS WW MM CONTEST! -- S57DX TS-590SG (100W), Windom 73 Sandi -- S57KM 73 de sm5alj BEN -- SE5L Elecraft K3 100w to KT34XA and Inv Vee Frustrating with two similar contests at the same time because many CQ-callers do not send RUSMM or UK/EI! Maybe the best would be if we could work all stations and put them into the same log and the adjudication program for each contest just put 0 points for QSOs not matching the adjudicated contest without penelties? -- SM5CSS delta loop for 20/10 end 160/40 10m up. Icom ic-7600 -- SO3O HP=200W -- SP1JQJ TS-590 & LW- ab 25m -- SP5XOV TRX K1 Elecraft 4 watts output.Ant. LW 20 mtrs.long. -- SP6BXM RIG:ic746pro PWR:100 ANT:delta loop GP5 SW:fil2cbr conventer -- SP9BNM TNX 73! -- UA9SMU 73 -- UB4W SDR-100020 wt ant G3XAP -- UR3QTN thanks for the good contest -- UR7EC thanks -- US3EW mcHF, delta loop -- US7IGN uv5evp@ukr.net -- UT0EM Equipment: IC-756PRO a home made tuner; Antenna: a home made wire V-beam arms 42m up 52m cable 75 Ohm balun 1:9 -- UT5UQV UW1M -- UW1M Most interesting. Would be nice not to be same weekend as Russian MM. See you all next year. Claude VE2FK -- VE2FK JUST HAD TIME TO POP ON THE AIR FOR A BIT HERE AND THERE. POOR CONDX HERE, ALSO LOTS QRN. MANY TKS FOR THE Q'S 73 JOE -- VO1BQ Thanks for the Q's. 73, Rich, W2EG -- W2EG Thaks fer the contest! 73! -- YL2LW RIG: KENWOOD TS-450SAT 100 WATTS; ANT: FD4 & LW 41 M -- YO4SI FT857D ant. dipole 80W -- YO5ODT See you in the next contest! -- YO8DOH Interesting contest for QRP unfortunatelly I had no time for longer work and CONDX was really very bad! I had admiration for some guys especially from USA who copied me at 7MHz when they was max 449 on my side ! -- YU1LM/QRP We need lots of sunspots! -- ZM2B

Some Statistics

Some Statistics Total QSOs: 41372 Cross Checked QSOs: 19680 UK/EI night bonus QSOs: 477 Total Entrants: 375 UK/EI Entrants: 69 EU Entrants: 245 DX Entrants: 61 Non-entrants are all callsigns worked who didn't submit a log Total Non-entrants: 2220 UK/EI Non-entrants: 200 EU Non-Entrants: 1232 DX Non-Entrants: 788 Total Unique Non-entrants: 1095 UK/EI Unique Non-entrants: 102 EU Unique Non-Entrants: 607 DX Unique Non-Entrants: 386 Stations who paid more than a casual interest in the contest but didn't submit a log Total Non-entrants with 10 or more QSOs: 449 UK/EI Non-entrants with 10 or more QSOs: 44 EU Non-entrants with 10 or more QSOs: 288 DX Non-entrants with 10 or more QSOs: 117 Top 20 non entrants F5IN 288 QSO records with last sent serial number of 350 HG6O 280 QSO records with last sent serial number of 709 DL3GA 221 QSO records with last sent serial number of 559 IT9PZM 214 QSO records with last sent serial number of 324 DF1MM 214 QSO records with last sent serial number of 305 GM3YOR 200 QSO records with last sent serial number of 297 GM3WIJ 198 QSO records with last sent serial number of 285 OK5E 196 QSO records with last sent serial number of 250 DL1NKS 191 QSO records with last sent serial number of 254 UR7R 188 QSO records with last sent serial number of 283 K3WW 178 QSO records with last sent serial number of 321 M0BEW 174 QSO records with last sent serial number of 396 E74X 173 QSO records with last sent serial number of 229 F6HKA 171 QSO records with last sent serial number of 354 DJ4MH 163 QSO records with last sent serial number of 222 IT9LKX 161 QSO records with last sent serial number of 270 K9OM 158 QSO records with last sent serial number of 251 IZ4JMA 144 QSO records with last sent serial number of 302 HG8C 141 QSO records with last sent serial number of 212