[SECC] ARRL 10

[Gary Breed]

Good job, Ed.  I called you a couple times, too, but wasn't heard through 
the other stations.

Where the antenna was pointed was absolutely critical for QRP scatter!
To work the NE guys, I had to be pointed ENE while they were beaming
EU, and later had to be pointed NW after they turned the beams around.

Real close-in stuff was best pointed in the general direction of
the station (e.g. NE for W4WA, E for W4OC, WSW for K4AB, NE for the
guys in NC, NW for the Nashville gang).

After seeing some of the mults reported on 3830 (all power levels), I
feel pretty good about that part of my score!

73, Gary
K9AY


> 
> Well, this was one strange contest. I completely agree with John and the
> others that propagation was weird. Couple of things I noted was at about
> 2100Z, a very short window opened to EU on a beam heading of 330 or so.
> 
> Also, at 2330 on Sunday, I had the beam due South, and a couple of EUs
> called me along with a UA9...Band to EU closed like a trap about 30 mins
> before local sundown. Also, absolutely no real long skip at any time to
> EU.
> 
> Somehow, I get the idea that where you had your beam pointed, with the
> exception of SA, made very little difference. Also, signals were
> definitely Polar/Aurora in many cases. Got a couple of very good runs on
> CW, but absolutely no luck on SSB.
> 
K4SB



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