[UK-CONTEST] HF SSB FD ... HF bands poor or what?

[Andy Cook, G4PIQ]

Hum.... from the short time I was able to operate during the aurora, it
seemed a bit better (that'll be worse for the SSB FD contestants!) than a
minor 'Scottish' event, but definitely not a mega one. Operated just over an
hour and worked YL,LY,EW,OH,SM,GM,GI,G,DL,PA,F and heard OK and HG, with
HG6Z at 57A although too deaf (QRM?!) to hear me. Worked as far south as
JN05AI from here in JO01. This was all during the afternoon session,
Definitely not a good contest to have planned not to do seriously.

Andy, G4PIQ

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian White, G3SEK [mailto:G3SEK at ifwtech.co.uk]
> Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 11:04 AM
> To: uk-contest-X-contesting.com-POP-1 at mail-x-change.com
> Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] HF SSB FD ... HF bands poor or what?
> 
> 
> Ray Goff wrote:
> >
> >Yes the bands were terrible for the weekend, but apparently the Sun 
> >threw a wobbly which hit us sometime on Saturday! K was 
> apparently 7, 
> >with East Coast US stations having a definite aurora sound to their 
> >signals.
> >
> There was a minor 'Scottish' aurora on 2m on Saturday night, which at 
> least did some good for the Region 1 2m contest which was going on at 
> the same time.
> 
> -- 
> 73 from Ian G3SEK
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