[UK-CONTEST] JIDXHF CW GM4YXI

[Keith Kerr]

This one is usually good fun, with plenty of activity and 
some interesting propagation. Another case of 'good 
conditions until Friday lunchtime, then it's all change'!! 
20m short path at the contest start (Fri 23z) was OK but 
activity was low. Saturday morning was tough with 15m long 
path my only option and very slow rates. I made 2 QSO's on 
10m by beaming SE!! 
Sunday was a bit better. 10m opened a bit but I hardly even 
had what could be descibed as a pile-up and QSB was deep. 
Sunday evening saw some huge signals on 20m but activity 
was low due to it being early Monday in JA and time for 
sleep. Apart from the couple of hours when 10m opened on 
Sunday am, the best rates were in the last 90 mins of the 
contest on 20m, when JA woke up and had breakfast in the 
shack!

Long path CW to JA is always a challenge at this QTH, due 
to the echo and multipath effects....lots of repeats and so 
on need by me! Yet few of the JA ops seemed to be having 
problems. Now this could very well be that my CW is just no 
use! However.....I'd be interested to know if the same 
phenomenon exists at the other end of the path. Anyone know?

GM4YXI SOAB CW HP

	Band	QSO	Mult
	20m	170	41
	15m	217	43
	10m	133	43
	Total	520	127....82,931pts

IC775/IC737 AL1500
20m 3el mono @ 70ft
15m 4el mono @ 60ft
10m 5el mono @ 50ft

73 Keith GM4YXI	
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