On the weekend of 22./23. March 2008 I took a part on BARTG Contest 2008 in the Single Operator All Bands category with hope that conditions and circumstances shall be moderate to this attempt.

Despite of quite poor radio wave propagation I had some (rare) minutes of joy. But anyway with hard work it seems to be my best BARTG result until now achieved. Suprisingly for me here was possibility to work with handfull of US stations (list of 12 most contacted countries) :

Looking more deeper to the band results the list of 12 top rates is following :

I very appreciate the contacts with DV1JM (PHILLIPINES - already eQSL confirmed), VK2KM (AUSTRALIA), PT7AZ (BRAZIL) all on 14 MHZ band and LS1D (ARGENTINA) on 21 MHz bringing me rare continent multipliers. Also 9V1UV (SINGAPORE), C91R (MOZAMBIQUE), FG5LA (GUADELOUPE), HP3DX (PANAMA) and HZ1PS (SAUDI ARABIA) were highligths on 14 MHz band. I worked K2TE (on two bands 3.5 and 14 MHz) and saturday evening (19:30 UTC) was slightly opened US and Canada West Coast with VE7CC (Vancouver area) and K6LL (Arizona).

Altogether 6 continents and 50 different DXCC worked on all open bands (80m, 40m, 20m, 15m). Final results are here :

Total result is 40365 (sum of band results) * 6 (continents) = 242190 contest points.