Snakes & Ladders edition 2nd semester of 2017 Results for December 2017, final month. Welcome to Mike, G0JHK, who joined us this month. Received were 32 logs containing 1000 valid QSOs into 216 locator squares. Among these locator squares, we had 76 candidate ladders (each with 1 QSO only) of which the following 15 were randomly selected as ladders: IM58 IO51 JM77 JN66 JO48 JO86 JP20 KM28 KN19 KN87 KP32 LN07 LO06 LO74 LO88 Furthermore we had 47 candidate snakes (each with more than 5 QSOs), of which the following 4 were randomly selected as snakes: IO64 IO83 JN59 JN68 This leads to the following scores Call, name Total score 1 2 3 4 5 6 =============================================================================== 2E0DPH, Phil: 82 12 16 20 13 1 20 2E0EML, David: 171 30 30 33 24 39 15 2E0ENL, Mark: 92 - - - - 59 33 DJ6UX, Eddi: 2349 539 360 330 462 310 348 DL1DXL, Lothar: 310 - 40 108 73 43 46 DL1GBZ, Martin: 141 - - 141 - - - DL1HBL, Claus: 135 45 22 9 43 - 16 DL7UGN, Mike: 44 12 7 18 - 1 6 DM4RW, Robert: 90 - 7 8 23 19 33 F5IYJ, Philippe: 132 49 35 7 9 1 31 G0ILN, Richard: 106 12 15 6 - - 73 G0JHK, Mike: 36 - - - - - 36 G0POT, Michael: 115 9 37 38 22 - 9 G3XVL, Chris: 801 172 120 149 129 142 89 G3YJQ, Fred: 89 6 22 19 17 21 4 G4FAI, Tony: 108 29 22 1 21 14 21 G4KLE, Mervin: 55 55 - - - - - G4LHI, Peter: 2501 299 502 343 442 480 435 G4RHR, Ken: 253 32 31 17 61 86 26 G6HH, Richard: 82 14 19 17 17 4 11 G7JMZ, John: 2 - - 1 - - 1 I2CZQ, Peter: 355 70 - - 15 130 140 I5EFO, Emil: 216 40 41 42 42 32 19 I5SKK, Alex: 126 - - 45 15 24 42 IK1YBL, Paolo: 65 1 32 15 9 - 8 IK2RMZ, Martin: 1361 180 108 175 399 236 263 IZ8NXG, Renato: 684 12 116 140 125 198 93 M0DRK, Derek: 134 25 20 20 23 21 25 M5ABN, Pete: 123 27 34 27 15 3 17 M6MEN, Mark: 162 74 45 18 25 - - OH2BN, Jarmo: 1 - 1 - - - - OH7QR, Erkki: 296 30 20 49 86 58 53 OK1PSI, Michal: 51 12 5 10 1 15 8 OK2BMA, Pavel: 150 12 6 40 37 4 51 OK2PXJ, Vaclav: 10 - - 10 - - - PA0DIN, Din: 156 10 38 46 30 10 22 SV2BBK, Fanis: 877 102 74 140 224 161 176 Congratulations to the winner of the second semester of 2017: Peter G4LHI! I wish all good luck for the first semester of 2018, and hopefully I'll be hearing back from all of you next month. Best 73, Robert, DM4RW mgr S&L