The contest this year got off to a bit of a late start, so we missed the peak dx season.  A bit of reported sunspot activity didn't seem to help much either.  Still, we had some very nice reports, and those who participated enjoyed the experience.  Here are the results:

Name                            Location                               #stations    Points

Open Class

Gil Stacy                        Savannah, GA                        93            162,299
Mike Tuggle                   Kaneone, HI                          34            125,727
Owen Pool                     St. Simons Is., GA                 84            113, 617
Steve McDonald            Mayne Is., BC                       84             104,982
Philip Miller Tate            Walton-on-Thames, UK         70              83,974
Jack Bryant                    Birmingham, AL                     76              73,370
John O'Hara                   Bridgewater, NJ                     47              46,592
Lem Morrison                 Irondale, AL                          36              42,645
Mark Roliff                     Randolph, OH                        37              33,090
Philip Miller Tate             Disneyworld, FL                       2                   400

Hobby Class

Owen Pool                     St. Simons Is., GA                  47               67,749
Gordon McCall              Webster, NY                          50               51,551
Gary Nichols                   Manlius, NY                          24               22,325
Rich Shivers                    Philadelphia, PA                     20               14,356
Larry Fisher                    Benicia, CA                            19                 3,926
Jim Falls                         Eureka, CA                               5                 2,783

  Gil Stacy did a fine job for first time out.  Took just about every trick in the book and added 660/46 litz wire basket coils to boot.  Guess some more of us will be getting back into the "litz wars" next year. Mike Tuggle gave himself a "handicap" and used only a rock (lead telluride) for a detector.  Some handicap - his best station was a mere 3,655 miles away in Nebraska.  Six of the open class entrys had at least one station to break the mythical 1000 mile barrier, and Gordon McCall did it in the hobby class.
  In the open class, everyone used sound powered phones, and, except for Phil's desparate attempt in the hotel parking lot with a short antenna and a "fingernail clipper" ground while visiting Disney, used the Lyonodyne set in one version or another.  
  In the hobby class, there were two MRL-2A type sets, one Marconi single coil set, and the rest used antenna coupling coils to a detector circuit.  
    Next year we will try to do this a little earlier in the season, and will add a new classification to see what people can do on the shortwave bands.  Preliminary indications are that there are lots of stations to be had up there, and the big hurdles, in my opinion, will be (1) antenna tuning, (2) selectivity, and (3) figuring out just who and where those stations are.  


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