‰ NOW 30 WPM ‰ FIELD DAY AVERAGING AN OUTSTANDING 183 QS PER HOUR FOR THE CONTEST PERIOD. CALCULATE IN 431 MULTIPLIERS AND HIS WINNING SCORE OF 8,981,940 WAS A RUNAWAY CATEGORY WINNER. FINISHING SECOND IN A HARD FOUGHT BATTLE, WAS P40W, WITH JOHN, W2GD, AS THE OPERATOR, WHO EDGED OUT MARTTI, EA8BH BY A SCANT 85K POINTS. CONGRATULATIONS GO TO THE DX SINGLE OPERATOR SINGLE BAND CHAMPIONS OF 2001 BOJAN, S57M 160, RAUL, CO8ZZ 80, ATILLA, YT7A 40, 3E1AA GUENTER, HP1XVH, OP 20, RAFAEL, CT1BOP 15, AND HC8Z PEDRO, HC1OT, OP 10. THE DX MULTIOPERATOR CATEGORIES PRODUCED THE TIGHTEST CONTESTS OF THE YEAR, AS WELL AS STRONG INTEREST AMONG OPERATORS. THE DX MULTIOPERATOR SINGLE TRANSMITTER CONTEST CAME DOWN TO THE WIRE, BUT IN THE END THE OPS OF 8P9JA AT 8P9Z USED THEIR SLIGHTLY BETTER QSO RATE TO OFFSET THE SUPERIOR MULTIPLIER TOTAL OF VP5B TO WIN THE CATEGORY BY A MERE 41K POINTS 8,389,512 TO 8,348,256. 8P9JAS QSO RATE WAS 178R2 PER HOUR WHILE VP5BS RATE OF 172R5 LEFT THEM CLOSE BECAUSE THEY LOGGED 9 MORE MULTS. THE DX MULTIOPERATOR TWO ‰ FROM PAGE 96 ‰ 1,381,248 1408 327 C K5MA 1,110,756 1226 302 C W1RY 952,455 965 329 C W1KRS 683,046 834 273 C W1DO 30,000 100 100 C KE1Y 72,192 376 64 C 80 AA1BU ‰ END OF 30 WPM TEXT ‰ QST DE W1AW ƒ