Name                      Location                  Stations                  Points
         

Open Class

Berthold Bosch        Bochum, Germany      191                     357 678  This log looks like a travel guide.
Mike Tuggle            Kaneohe, HI                 55                     314 740  Just another cruddy day in paradise.
Lem Morrison         Irondale, AL                137                     204 495  Here is the website for the Alabama Gang
Ed Phelps               Benton, KY                 103                     178 555   It's the antenna, stupid.
Gordon McCall      Webster, NY               125                     135 351   A hobby rig to run with the big boys.
Jack Bryant             Trussville, AL              111                     129 421
Owen Pool             St. Simons Is, GA          86                     124 156
Brian Wingard         Birmingham, AL          102                     122 992
Bert "Hop" Hays     Trussville, AL               100                     115 239
Herb Fredrickson    Kemble, ON                 95                     110 282    Our first Canadian entry
Dee Haynes            Tarrant, AL                   91                      105 193
Bill Hebbert            Plymouth, WI                79                        98 593
Gil Stacy                 Savannah, GA               54                        85376
John Davidson         La Jolla, CA                 84                        82 204
Jeff Greenwald        Laramie, WY                42                        69 056
Philip Miller Tate     WOT, England              61                        59 779
Garry Nichols         Manlius, NY                  63                        54 988
Michael Spanos      Alabaster, AL                43                        47395
David Crawford      Raleigh, NC                  28                        26 236  
John Ohara             Bridgewater, NJ            30                        25 217 
Larry Naumann       St. Louis, MO               28                        22 762
John Hz                  Gary, IN                        17                          3 400

Hobby Class
Gordon McCall      Webster, NY                 125                    135 351
Ed Phelps               Benton, KY                     74                    122 140  Then he had to switch antennas
Owen Pool             St. Simons Is, GA            41                      71 742
Jeff Greenwald        Laramie, WY                  26                      35 114
Dave Schmarder     Beaver Dams, NY           46                      34 051
Dan Peterson          La Center, WA               24                      18 451
Rich Shivers            Philadelphia, PA              22                      12 227
Gerald Eskew         Independence, CA          11                        7 568

Shortwave Class*
Richard O'Neill      Waldorf, MD                            59
Mike Tuggle           Kaneohe, HI                             25
Philip Miller Tate    Walton-on-Thames, England     14

* Scoring in Shortwave class is one point for each identified station.

    This was the biggest field we have had in all the contests to date.  We had a number of very sophisticated looking rigs this year, including a batch from the Birmingham crowd, and, of course, from the big winner, Berthold (I kept looking at the pictures of his rig for the power plug).  I'll run a feature on his set as soon as I eke out a little more bandwidth.  Berthold used every trick at his disposal to get good sensitivity and excellent selectivity in a "target rich" but crowded rf environment.  While the big litz coils are out there in abundance now, Berthold and others used ferrite coils to good advantage, and that seems to be the current fashion in making a "slice and dice" set, able to sneak up close to the bandmasters with less reliance on those pesky wave traps.  Ed Phelps made good use of a 140 foot-high tower and four 1000 foot-long Beverage antennas in a rural environment - we won't go into the details of his rig, but it sounds like he spent about 15 minutes assembling it from the bottom of his junk box.
    This was also our first foray into the internation shortwave broadcast bands, and the three hardy souls who stuck it out report that it is a jungle out there.  Probably spent more time trying to figure out just who they heard than finding them.  This is another "target rich" environment, and you don't need much of a set to start hearing them rolling in from all over.