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

[Jim Balls]

Yep we also had VO1MP ... Strange or what!
Nice to see some more UK call signs again this year, I hope they put their 
entries in

Who is entering in what category this year?
  M5ARC/P in restricted again .... using a 20M EDZ this year and TS870, 
thought we had made a big mistake took 18 minutes to work the first 
station, so it wasn't a fair comparison with last years 66' rotary dipole 
.. oh well.

Jim M0CKE





At 04:35 PM 09/09/02 -0400, you wrote:
> >Yes condx were very poor. From comments seen on the DxCluster, 160m
>conditions were good and NA US ops on 80m were >reporting good paths to
>South America with "storm enhanced propagation" (that's a new one to me).
>
>At G3GRS/P I was amazed to be called on 40m by
>VO1MP at 12.00z. That's right, midday GMT! Presumably
>some sort of polar enhancement due to the aurora.
>
>We only worked two OHs all weekend. I imagine they all
>turn their HF rigs off at times like this. OH4OD/M described
>it as a "terrible nice aurora" which I think summed it up
>perfectly.
>
>Dave G4BUO
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