Did anyone else participate seriously in the RSGB 7 MHz contest from the
USA? The posting here 20-Feb by GM4FDM tweaked my interest and I made a
real effort to work every G I could hear on 7 MHz during the contest. It
was a real bust! This looks like a fun contest, but I guess not from W6.
As this is REALLY short, I'll post it here rather than on the 3830
reflector, as I'm sure that no one is "compiling" scores for this contest.
I used the Cal QSO Party selection in CT, and edited CQP.DAT to show the 77
UK County codes. As it turned out, I used more time preparing CT for this
contest than I spent actually working people! A case for using paper logs
because paper logs would have taken less time (overall) to prepare. CT did
work fine, reporting the worked multipliers and tracking them for me.
The following also mailed to G3UFY:
W6GO 1996 RSGB 7 MHZ Contest Log:
DATE TIME MODE NUMBER FREQ CALL RCVD NEW MULTS PTS
24-Feb-96 1504 CW 1 7.003 GM3POI 7 ORK ORK 15
24-Feb-96 1600 CW 2 7.008 G3RBP 47 SFD SFD 15
24-Feb-96 1608 CW 3 7.002 G3KNU 65 HBS HBS 15
24-Feb-96 1629 CW 4 7.027 G2QT 69 KNT KNT 15
24-Feb-96 2358 CW 5 7.013 G3SWH 404 AVN AVN 15
25-Feb-96 0012 CW 6 7.014 G6YB/P 346 AVN 15
25-Feb-96 0025 CW 7 7.018 G0IVZ 469 CNL CNL 15
25-Feb-96 0038 CW 8 7.003 G3JKS 263 HFD HFD 15
25-Feb-96 0107 CW 9 7.026 G0SDX 450 WKS WKS 15
25-Feb-96 0113 CW 10 7.012 G3VHB 448 WMD WMD 15
25-Feb-96 0131 CW 11 7.009 G4ODV 444 CNL 15
All reports sent and received were 599.
Total points: 165
Total mults: 9
Total score: 165 * 9 = 1485
I thought it would be easy to work 30-35 stations! I was really wrong.
I did hear four others during "long path" (1500-1700Z) that I could hear
but they could not hear me: G6YB/P, G5LP, G3VHB, G0IVZ. I worked G3VHB
and G0IVZ during the later "short path" opening, but never heard G6YB or
G5LP again. This is a difficult contest from northern W6!
Equipment: FT-1000DX, Alpha 77D, stack of 2 4-ele yagis at 85' and 147'.
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