Topband: ARRL CW Contest

[donovanf at starpower.net]

Hi Roger, 


Topband propagation to Europe was about as good as it gets this weekend, 
except Sunday night when it was significantly depressed. I compared 
your signal to the three other UK stations who were calling CQ at the 
end of the contest The strongest were GM5X and GW5R, both 
consistently about one S-unit stronger than you and G5W who was 
consistently just a few dB stronger. Your signals was about 569 
during the entire time, good easy copy on clear frequencies. 


73 
Frank 
W3LPL 

----- Original Message -----

From: "Roger Kennedy" <roger at wessexproductions.co.uk> 
To: topband at contesting.com 
Sent: Monday, February 17, 2020 1:15:32 AM 
Subject: Topband: ARRL CW Contest 


I had forgotten it was a multiband contest, so I now appreciate that's why 
less NA stations are on calling CQ. 

Well I came on for a total of about 4 hours over the weekend . . . managed 
to work a total of 128 NA stations, so was pretty pleased with that. 

Apologies to any of you I couldn't copy . . . but bear in mind that - like 
many British stations - I only live in an ordinary street in a City, with a 
normal size garden (yard), with many houses within one wavelength. So I 
have a high noise level, and no room for Beverages or anything (just my 
homebrew Receiving Loop in the loft.) 

73 Roger G3YRO 



_________________ 
Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector