Snakes & Ladders result for July Despite the vacation season, S&L had a good month with 32 logs received. These contained 989 valid log entries into 290 square locators. Welcome to five new participants this month: DK2DO, DL1HBL, G0ILN, I2CZQ and M6DXL. Total participants up to now: 38 The Snake squares have been determined as follows: IO92 with 73 hits JO02 with 31 hits IO83 with 30 hits => It comes without surprise that these are the same squares as in April, although the differences in hits are much less pronounced. => Note that IO92, JO02, IO83, IO80, JO53 and JO22 cannot be snake in the month of August, because they were snake in June or July. Of the 290 square locators worked, 137 (!) made it to ladder square with 1 log entry each: IL18 IM12 IM58 IM75 IM86 IN73 IN77 IN81 IN84 IN88 IN91 IN95 IN98 IO42 IO44 IO52 IO53 IO73 IO74 IO85 JM88 JN00 JN01 IO95 IP62 J032 JJ00 JM19 JN13 JN17 JN19 JN23 JN37 JN52 JN64 JN70 JN78 JN83 JN84 JN95 JN96 JO23 JO28 JO34 JO46 JO47 JO59 JO63 JO76 JO77 JO78 JO79 JO81 JO88 JO91 JO93 JP81 JP82 JP83 JP93 KM09 KM15 KM17 KM27 KM36 KM64 KN01 KN05 KN11 KN13 KN15 KN17 KN25 KN26 KN28 KN30 KN33 KN45 KN48 KN57 KN65 KN66 KN68 KN77 KN86 KN89 KN98 KN99 KO01 KO06 KO11 KO18 KO24 KO26 KO42 KO49 KO51 KO55 KO60 KO78 KO84 KO91 KO92 KO97 KP01 KP03 KP05 KP06 KP21 KP22 KP26 KP31 KP50 KP71 KP75 KP80 LN14 LO00 LO01 LO02 LO16 LO26 LO31 LO33 LO53 LO55 LO66 LO88 LO97 LP51 MO05 MO06 MO07 MO16 MO27 NO13 QN17 This leads to the following score for July (total accumulated score in parentheses): 2E0DPH, Phil: -15 points (135) G5VZ, Chris: - points (30) 2E0TEK, Graham: - points (5) GM0EPO, John: 50 points (150) 5B4AHO, Barry: - points (155) I2CZQ, Peter: 55 points (55) DH0DK, Ben: 60 points (230) IK2RMZ, Martin: 60 points (240) DK2DO, Wolfgang: 25 points (25) IK5WOB, Fabrizio: 5 points (30) DK5OE, Klaus: 15 points (70) IZ1POZ, Paolo: 5 points (130) DL1DXL, Lothar: 50 points (230) IZ5JLW, Lele: 0 points (55) DL1GBZ, Martin: 60 points (120) M0DAG, Dean: - points (25) DL1HBL, Claus: 60 points (60) M0DRK, Derek: 5 points (10) DL7UGN, Mike: 45 points (165) M5ABN, Pete: 60 points (165) DO1UZ, Olaf: 60 points (215) M6DXL, Marshall: 0 points (0) DO2TC, Peter: 50 points (140) OE3LHB, Heinz: 60 points (240) EI6KH, Chris: 45 points (125) OH7QR, Erkki: 60 points (240) G0DJA, Dave: - points (40) OK2BMA, Pavel: 35 points (75) G0ILN, Richard: 0 points (0) PA0ATG, Adriaan: 60 points (215) G3YJQ, Fred: 50 points (220) PA0DIN, Din: 60 points (80) G3ZOD, Graham: 45 points (70) RN3ANT, Vitaly: - points (30) G4KLE, Merv: 50 points (225) RW3AI, Valery: 60 points (240) G4LHI, Peter: 60 points (240) SP9NLI, Andy: 60 points (195) => note that "- points" means that no log was received this month There were only few snake bites this month, most of you managed to spread their QSOs well over Europe and as a result managed to climb a ladder, or simply avoided the snakes. Tough luck for newcomers G0ILN, Richard and M6DXL, Marshall: although they had quite some QSOs, only few locators were worked. And as it turned out, some of these were snakes for July. As a result, only 1 or 2 normal locators squares remained, which results in 0 points, because you need 3 normal squares at least for 5 points. Good luck to all for August, and I hope to see you all back early September. Regards, 73s, Robert DM4RW mgr S&L