Snakes & Ladders, Edition 2016 Results for the second month of the 2nd semester of 2020 This month we welcome eight newcomers from Italy: I3JUK, Giuseppe; IK7UKF, Sal; I8QFK, Ben; I2AZ, Giuseppe; IU3KGO, Massimo; IN3FHE, Helga; IK1WNO, Enrico; and last but not least IZ7EBY, Tony, who is a blind man but an excellent operator nevertheless. Thanks to IZ2FME, Michele, for his engagement to get so many newcomers involved at once. Received were 34 logs containing 1305 valid QSOs into 236 locator squares. Among these squares, we had 81 candidate ladders (each with 1 QSO only) of which the following 16 were randomly selected as ladders: IO87 JN08 JN33 JN64 JN76 JN96 JO28 JO63 JO73 JO87 KM17 KM28 KN26 KO05 KO37 LO05 Furthermore we had 60 candidate snakes (each with more than 5 QSOs), of which the following 6 were randomly selected as snakes: IO80 IO83 JN35 JO21 JO30 JO62 This leads to the following scores Call, name Total score 1 2 3 4 5 6 =========================================================================== 2E0DPH, Phil: 11 11 - DJ6UX, Eddi: 882 432 450 DL1DXL, Lothar: 219 120 99 DL1HBL, Claus: 23 21 2 DL7UGN, Mike: 48 22 26 DM4RW, Robert: 8 8 - F5IYJ, Phil: 65 47 18 G0ILN, Richard: 75 49 26 G3XVL, Chris: 80 54 26 G3ZOD, Graham: 17 15 2 G4FAI, Tony: 4 4 - G4LHI, Peter: 1330 715 615 I2AZ, Giuseppe: 45 - 45 I2CZQ, Peter: 166 166 - I3JUK, Giuseppe: 225 - 225 I8QFK, Ben: 26 - 26 II2EMCA, Mike: 34 - 34 IK1WNO, Enrico: 35 - 35 IK1YBL, Paolo: 41 26 15 IK2RMZ, Martin: 325 155 170 IK7UKF, Sal: 212 - 212 IN3FHE, Helga: 12 - 12 IU3KGO, Massimo: 15 - 15 IZ2FME, Mike: 31 17 14 IZ7EBY, Tony: 4 - 4 IZ8NXG, Renato: 208 63 145 M0DRK, Derek: 16 16 - M0ILR, Simon: 78 - 78 M0PYC, David: 78 42 36 M0UZE, Mark: 250 111 139 M5ABN, Pete: 59 21 38 MI0WWB, William: 58 52 6 MX5IPX, Graham: 18 12 6 OH7QR, Erkki: 417 214 203 OK1LIX, Petr: 3 - 3 OK2BMA, Pavel: 19 3 16 PA0DIN, Din: 61 18 43 PG4I, Joop: 366 132 234 SV2BBK, Fanis: 246 165 81 Note that II2EMCA is a special call sign run by IZ2FME, Mike I wish all good luck for the running month of September, thanks for participating and hopefully I'll see you back soon. Take care and stay safe. 73, DM4RW mgr S&L