Snakes & Ladders version 2016 (SL2016). Results for October 2016, 4th month of the summer/autumn run. Welcome back to Valery (Val), RW3AI! September was another good month for Snakes & Ladders, with 31 logs filed. These 31 logs contained 1071 valid QSOs into 256 locator squares. Among these locator squares, we had 112 candidate ladders (each with 1 QSO only) of which the following 22 were randomly selected as ladders: IM77 IN51 IN53 IN96 IO88 JN06 JN36 JN62 JN66 JN83 JN84 JO64 JO68 JO72 JO77 JO80 JO88 JP82 KN45 KN56 KO73 KP11 Furthermore we had 45 candidate snakes (each with more than 5 QSOs), of which the following 4 were randomly selected as snakes: IO90 JO60 JO89 JP80 This leads to the following scores Call, name Total score 1 2 3 4 5 6 =============================================================================== 2E0DPH, Phil: 105 - 50 23 32 2E0EML, David: 213 42 48 57 66 DH3LK, Rudolf: 81 34 29 18 - DJ6UX, Eddi: 410 - 64 34 312 DK5OE, Klaus: 19 11 7 1 - DL1DXL, Lothar: 154 19 4 51 80 DL1GBZ, Martin: 116 - - - 116 DL1HBL, Claus: 108 52 - 18 38 DL7UGN, Mike: 38 13 6 3 16 DM4RW, Robert: 55 21 - 17 17 F5IYJ, Philippe: 285 96 80 58 51 G0ILN, Richard: 179 48 33 47 51 G0POT, Michael: 102 15 6 60 21 G3XVL, Chris: 300 107 114 37 42 G3YJQ, Fred: 123 9 10 35 69 G3ZOD, Graham: 12 6 - 6 - G4FAI, Tony: 89 61 9 19 - G4LHI, Peter: 1232 286 234 243 469 G4RHR, Ken: 161 23 41 52 45 G7JMZ, John: 8 - 6 - 2 GX0IPX, FISTS: 4 - - 4 - I2CZQ, Peter: 475 - 126 149 200 I5EFO, Emil: 40 - - 22 18 I5SKK, Alex: 441 176 93 126 46 IK2RMZ, Martin: 1246 233 445 368 200 M0DRK, Derek: 207 27 77 38 65 M5ABN, Pete: 134 32 39 40 23 M6MEN, Mark: 387 50 149 91 97 MX5IPX, FISTS: 12 - - 10 2 OE3LHB, Heinz: 73 16 30 8 19 OE6GWG, Werner: 216 33 75 54 54 OH7QR, Erkki: 186 21 31 33 101 OK2BMA, Pavel: 49 12 5 29 3 PA0DIN, Din: 47 18 12 6 11 RW3AI, Val: 185 - - - 185 SV2BBK, Fanis: 570 143 157 150 120 I wish all good luck for the running month of October, and see you back soon. Best 73, Robert, DM4RW mgr S&L