ARRL 10-Meter Contest
Call: G4FKA
Operator(s): G4FKA
Station: G4FKA
Class: SO Mixed HP
QTH: Bristol
Operating Time (hrs):
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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CW: 180 32
SSB: 53 16
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Total: 233 48 Total Score = 39,264
Club: Bristol Contest Group
Comments:
Normally I use a wet string antenna but on Sunday it was a snowy string as the
first snowfalls of winter came to the west of England. Saturday conditions were
generally dire up to 16:00. Only 20 QSOs from the point the band opened around
08:00. Then at 16:01 it was like a gate was opened and Europe were finally
there. I worked 4 times as many in the next two hours as the whole period up to
16:00. So it was much more fun until the last of the day's 110 QSOs at 19:23.
On Sunday the band opened later with the first QSO at 09:25 but then it was a
more distributed run of 123 QSOs through the day with just a couple of hours
with no contacts. Last QSO later at 19:51.
The propagation was very Europe oriented and there were only three QSOs outside
Europe, namely Uruguay, Brazil and Namibia. I guess this is par for the course
at this stage of the sunspots.
ICOM IC-756ProIII, Expert 1K-FA and a snow covered fixed wire dipole at 4m.
Thanks for all the QSOs and see you all in the next one.
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