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Just a few pics for now. What a pleasure this year to have a 20m monobander AND a 40m cubical quad! Makes a big difference on the bands.......  Results.

Tony, G4LDL attaching guys
Tony, G4LDL attaching guys to the club tower.

That's how big a 20m monobander is!
Yep, that's how big a 20m monobander is! 3 ele tri-bander on top, both for use on the main station.

No, I'm not painting it!

2 ele 40m quad at 70ft

The 2 ele 40m cubical quad supported at around 70 feet by the cherry picker, kindly loaned by a non-club member. I've drawn over the elements so you can see the size.

There should be music to this!

No, not on yer 'ead, on the PEG!
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Results:

This year we made 1052 QSO's generating 5799 raw points. We managed to work 74 countries and 191 multipliers. Our grand total before corrections is 1107609. Last year Tony LDL received the crown as the G-SPOTTER of 2005 for having worked the most multipliers. Here are this years results, kindly supplied by James, M1DST, from his superb DSTLog logging software.

OPR    Mults
G4LDL  59 New crown: G-SPOTTER 2006!
M1DST  32
M0XUK  23
2E0DBD 22
M0ACM  13
G3YBY  13
2E0GYZ 11
M5CBS  08
2E0POZ 06
G0VTA  04
 
Band QSO  %
20M  552  52
15M  185  18
40M  178  17
80M  123  12
10M   14   1
 
OPR    QSOs
M0XUK  237
M0ACM  138
G3YBY  138
M1DST  116
2E0POZ 100
2E0DBD  81
G4LDL   78
G0VTA   73
2E0GYZ  46
M5CBS   45
 
OPR    Points
G4LDL  57525
M1DST  24960
M0XUK  24081
2E0DBD 12474
M0ACM   8151
G3YBY   7098
2E0GYZ  2970
2E0POZ  2646
M5CBS   2040
G0VTA   1164