Hi all,
Not such a good contest for me! I missed out on an OC mult, although I did
hear ZL2AMI on 40m, but not sufficiently for a contact.
Other than that, it seemed quite hard work, with very little activity on
15m, which I guess is due to the mult counting only once. 20m was where most
of the activity was, and the band was pretty crowded.
Here, 20m closed early on Saturday, around 1900UTC, with only a few W's
audible. I moved down to 40m, and found very little to work, and 80m wasn't
much better.
As I don't have good low band antennas, I called it a night around 2000, and
decided to get up early on Sunday morning. Sleep got the better of me, and I
didn't get into the shack till just before 0700.
80m was poor, and 40m wasn't much better. Went to 20m and that was poor too,
but decided to stay there and go for it.
My aim of 300+ Q's was way off the mark, but maybe conditions just weren't
that good.
I see that many regulars were playing in the Top Band contest, or REF or
UBA, which explains why I missed out on so many of the usual calls.
For your info, GU0VNK was operated by Jan DJ8NK, and he was active for some
of the contest.
QSL is via DJ8NK.
During my CQ sessions, I had lots of QRM from folk who insisted on calling
during the exchange with another call, or folk who just didn't respond to me
sending them a report. Also got "told off" for not sending a signal
report!!!! One guy said he had to have an RST or I was not going in his log!
And HE called ME!
And how about this for a response.....
GU0SUP GU0SUP GU0SUP DE XX1XX XX1XX XX1XX RGR RGR AND TNX
UR RST 599 599 599 599
SERIAL NUMBER 049 049 049 049
TIME 1016 1016 1016 1016
HOW COPY AND BTU AR GU0SUP GU0SUP GU0SUP DE XX1XX XX1XX XX1XX KN
Interesting response from this station, which was an IW1. Not only that, but
his clock was an hour early too (or should that be one month, and an hour
early?).
Here is my claimed score:
QSOs
80m: 12
40m: 26
20m: 233
15m: 13
10m: 0
Total: 284
Continents: 5
Call Areas: 13
DXCC: 51
Total multipliers: 64
Score: 90880
Thanks to all for the points, and my log is now on LoTW.
73 de Phil GU0SUP
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