[UK-CONTEST] Obvservations in AFS SSB

[John Dunnington]

 Don G3BJ raises the point of antenna height
Don before I start CW Leg I used a balun fed Dipole (Sloping but not enough
TBC an Inv Vee) with the feed point 75ft in the air and 25ft above my X-7
Yagi. Slight bend One leg East' other 300 Deg. I used this during SSB but
about 25ft lower.

AFS SSB
The loudest by far was NLY but most of the big-guns were very loud. I spent
well over an hour QSX to YDX and BWP with Fred in my left ear and Ron in my
right. Fred was ahead some 10-QSO's at 17z but what was different was that
Ron had a steady stream of Eu callers intermixed with M3's and even a novice
as I recall. Fred for whatever reason during the period of observation had
longer gaps between callers and eventually lost out in the numbers to Ron.
Put this down to the GW call, antenna, propagation or whatever but both were
very loud. Put another way Fred had to work harder for his QSO's.

More worrying to me was the high number of duplicate callers..far more to
Ron which clearly wasted valuable minutes for both. In the end both passed
300 before the bewitching hour.
Obviously not everybody uses computer logging which if you S&P a lot has to
be the best assistant.

Glean what you may out of it..I suspect not a lot.

73 John  G3LZQ