The EPC Contest Committee has received 725 logs for the EPC PSK63 QSO Party 2009 from 67 DXCC countries: 4L, 9A, BY, CN, CO, CT, CX, DL, EA, EA8, EA9, EI, EK, ER, ES, EU, EX, EY, F, FG, G, GI, GM, HA, HB, HI, HS, I, J3, JA, K, LA, LU, LY, LZ, OD, OE, OH, OK, OM, ON, OY, OZ, PA, PZ, S5, SM, SP, SV, TA, TF, UA2F, UA3, UA9, UN, UR, V5, VE, VK, VU, XE, YB, YL, YO, YU, YV, and ZL.. The best station on BPSK63 in the 2009  is UR4QX. Congratulations to Yuri and all the EPC PSK63 QSO Party 2009 winners!

The amount of participants has increased significantly since the last year. Three top stations have managed to make their score over four million with more than 1000 BPSK63 contacts: UR4QX, UN1L, and UA4HOX. Well done guys!

Yuri Ivanov, UR4QX (EPC # 6283) takes the top World Wide position with a score of 4573359. This is the best ever result has been achieved in the EPC PSK63 QSO Party. Next is the best PSK63 station 2008 Gennady Gleyzer, UN1L (EPC # 2578) with a score of 4494282 which makes him a leader on the Asian continent. Aleksey Romanov, UA4HOX takes the third place with a score of 4307584.

Eduardo Hurtado, EC8AVE (EPC # 4991) takes the highest place on the African continent with a score of 370980. Stephen Licht, WF2S (EPC # 4812) from New York brings his station on the first position in North America with a score of 254220. And again as the last year, Ramon Kaersenhout, PZ5RA (EPC # 5159) cracking his own record with the score of 648276 puts his station on the first place in South America. Oceania doesn’t please us with wealth of participants this year. Laurie Cowcher, VK3AMA (EPC # 560) just with the score of 2226 (22 QSOs) takes top position in Oceania.

Check logs with thanks have been received from the following stations: DG9VH, DL3HXX, EA4/YO8DHC, EA7HJA, G6LUG, HA1SN, HA2EOA, LU6AM, RA3VGS, RA6FUZ, SP9WZP, SQ9UM, UA2FFX/1, UA3DNW, UA4SBZ, UT2IV, and YO3FOM.

We keep monitoring practice. Unfortunately there were a few stations with really bad quality (overloaded) signals or with undisguised breakdown of the power limit. These stations were disqualified according to the contest rules: PD1KSA, RV3ZN, UR5CJN, UR7GO, UT4XD, and UX5IO.

The following stations have been disqualified for the wrong numbers sent during the party: DJ7BP, DJ9JV, EB5DXJ, LA7CL, OG8A, OK1SI, OZ1DGQ, RA3XE, SP9CTS, SV7LWV/2, UN8CC, and YR2TM.

The EPC PSK63 World Plaque 2009 (free) goes to Yuri Ivanov, UR4QX. Ukraine should be proud of this guy! Special EPC Plaques are available to the following geographical area winners: UN1L (Asia), WF2S (North America and the USA), PZ5RA (South America), EC8AVE (Africa), VK3AMA (Oceania), UA4HOX (Russia), MØCHK (United Kingdom), SK3JR (Scandinavia), VE2HAR (Canada), and JF1RYU (Japan). Just to let you know that this year glass trophy costs 40.00 GBP including delivery. All continental and DXCC country winners will receive our PDF certificates.

The European PSK Club congratulates all the participants on their achievement, and thanks all of you for your support of the BPSK63 mode. Please contact Victor UT7FP via ut7fp@srars.org for UBN files. Many thanks for your interest, and we look forward to see you in the EPC PSK63 QSO Party 2010.

73! de DK5UR, MMØDFV, UT7FP and W3KM
EPC PSK63 QSO Party Committee