‰ NOW 20 WPM ‰ CONTESTERS, K9NS, ENJOYED FIRST PLACE AGAIN, BUT IMPROVED LAST YEARS SCORE BY 175,000 FOR A TOTAL OF 805,000 POINTS, SETTING A NEW CLASS RECORD FOR ILLINOIS THEY HAD A WHOPPING 1272 CONTACTS ON 6 METERS IN 258 GRIDS. THE WOPSONOCK MOUNTAINTOP OPERATORS TEAM AT W3SO ALSO SET A SECTION RECORD IN WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA WITH THEIR SECOND PLACE SCORE OF 640,000 POINTS. THEIR GEAR AND ANTENNA GROWTH PAID OFF AS THEY MOVED UP FROM THEIR THIRD PLACE SCORE IN 2005. THE JIM HALE, W4IY, TEAM WAS IN THIRD PLACE WITH 486,000 FROM VIRGINIA, FOLLOWED BY THE TAPMARC, W3DOG, GROUP IN DELAWARE WITH 351,000 AND PAUL TROTTER, AA4ZZ, FROM NORTH CAROLINA CAME IN AT FIFTH PLACE WITH 310,000 POINTS. ROVERS AS A ROVER MYSELF FOR THE PAST 15 YEARS, ‰ FROM PAGE 92 ‰ 226 UT K2HVE 112 2 1 224 NNJ K2BNS 43 2 1 222 WPA W0CEM 172 1 1 222 KS NB7V ‰ END OF 20 WPM TEXT ‰ QST DE W1AW ƒ