03/02/2006 | SV1BTR I am pleased with my 2005 score in the contest as it has further improved from last year and got really close to a million points. All QSO's were made on CW random and unassisted.

I hope that the ARRL will introduce and enforce strict rules for Assisted operation as there are a lot of solicited QSO's and exchange of QSO progress information during the course of the contacts. This takes place in loggers and clusters for digital EME. This, while totally unacceptable, is unfortunately true for many participants as well as third parties relaying such information on reports, etc.

I also believe that the full list of results for a major EME Contest should be published in the QST magazine. The results, both in QST as well as the ARRL web site, should contain mode used and number of QSO's per mode for all entries and classes.

My EME station consists of 16 x 6 element cross-polarized yagis (21.5 dBd) on 2 meters and 8 x 26 element yagis (25.8 dBd) on 70 cm. I am located in KM18NO. -- SV1BTR