Snakes & Ladders (v2) result for April 2015

Welcome back to this second edition of EuCW Snakes & Ladders. It is good to see
so many participants back. And a warm welcome to three new participants, DH3LK
Rudolf, OE6GWG Werner and OK2PXJ Vaclav!

Received were 30 logs, containing 1213 valid QSOs into 253 locator squares. A
good start of the new season, thanks to all for participating!

Among the 253 locator squares, we had 51 locator squares with more than 5 QSOs.
From these 51 locator squares, the following squares were randomly selected to
be the snakes for this month:

	IN96, IO71, IO93, JN49, KP10

Of the 253 square locators worked, 111 (!) made it to ladder square with only 1
QSO each:
IM58 IM78 IM79 IM99 IN72 IN81 IN82 IN83 IN87 IN91 IN92 IN97 IO51 IO52 IO53 IO62
IO73 IO76 IO84 JM75 JM76 JN01 JN09 JN13 JN23 JN24 JN26 JN27 JN28 JN38 JN52 JN61
JN66 JN69 JN70 JN71 JN72 JN78 JN80 JN85 JN94 JO29 JO57 JO63 JO68 JO71 JO72 JO73
JO77 JO79 JO80 JO83 JO92 JP66 JP70 JP77 JP83 KN04 KN15 KN25 KN29 KN35 KN37 KN56
KN64 KN66 KN68 KN69 KN86 KN87 KN94 KN95 KN97 KO02 KO06 KO12 KO13 KO15 KO21 KO30
KO40 KO45 KO52 KO59 KO84 KO86 KO90 KO95 KO96 KO97 KP01 KP17 KP22 KP24 KP30 KP50
KP68 KP72 LN13 LO01 LO09 LO32 LO43 LO55 LO62 MO05 MO25 MO27 NP49 OO06 OO62

This leads to the following score (accumulated score in parentheses):
2E0DPH, Phil:	   16 points (16)	G3ZOD, Graham:	    6 points (6)
2E0EML, David:	   24 points (24)	G4FAI, Tony:       44 points (44)
2E0TEK, Graham:	    8 points (8)	G4KLE, Merv:	  135 points (135)
DF2OK, Mike:	   18 points (18)	G4LHI, Peter:	  187 points (187)
DH3LK, Rudolf:	   12 points (12)	I2CZQ, Peter:	  173 points (173)
DK5OE, Klaus:	   38 points (38)	IK2RMZ, Martin:	  306 points (306)
DL1DXL, Lothar:    86 points (86)	M0DRK, Derek:	   56 points (56)
DL1GBZ, Martin:	   66 points (66)	M5ABN, Pete:	   88 points (88)
DL1HBL, Claus:	   96 points (96)	OE6GWG, Werner:	   46 points (46)
DL7UGN, Mike:	   30 points (30)	OH7QR, Erkki:	  129 points (129)
DO1UZ, Olaf:       42 points (42)	OK2BMA, Pavel:	   20 points (20)
F5IYJ, Philippe:   64 points (64)	OK2PXJ, Vaclav:	   20 points (20)
G0ILN, Richard:    74 points (74)	PA0DIN, Din:       24 points (24)
G0POT, Michael:	   84 points (84)	RN3ANT, Vit:	   42 points (42)
G3YJQ, Fred:	    2 points (2)	RW3AI, Valery:	   20 points (20)

Many thanks for such a great contribution: I wish all good luck for the running
month of May, hope conditions will stay good, and I hope to hear back from you
end of May, early June.

To close this first report, some reactions from participants:

Lothar, DL1DXL, writes: I like the higher reward in the hot-bands and the 5
minute rule. Great also that the FISTS log converter was adapted for this.
MGR=> As to the FISTS log converter: all courtesy to Graham, G3ZOD, who has
again done a great job.

Michael, G0POT, writes: This activity and QRS week has encouraged me onto the
key more in the last month than in the last 4 years. Thoughroughly enjoying
improving my fist.
MGR=> Very glad to hear this (courtesy to Martin, IK2RMZ for QRS week!)

David, 2E0EML, writes: This month, I have been encouraged to try the HF bands.
Compared to 2M, HF has its challenges, but the rewards are greater. I now have
more CW QSOs logged than SSB. I just want to say Thank you to Peter G4LHI and
the gang in and around Huntingdon for getting me this far in a short space of
time.

Regards, best 73,
DM4RW mgr S&L