[UK-CONTEST] Re: UK-Contest Digest, Vol 9, Issue 8
Ian
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Wed Sep 17 13:25:14 EDT 2003
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> 1. SSB Field Day Claimed Score (Andy Summers)
> 2. Re: LOTW (Mike Farmer)
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> Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 17:25:41 +0100
> From: "Andy Summers" <andy.summers at ttpcom.com>
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> Subject: [UK-Contest] SSB Field Day Claimed Score
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> Callsign: M0CAM/P Total Claimed Score: 254,004
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> Contest: IARU Region 1 SSB Field Day Date: 6-7/9/03
>
> Mode: J3E Single/Multi Op: Multi Section: Restricted
>
> Group Name: Granta Contest Group
>
> Location: Park Farm, Gt. Chesterford, Essex.
>
>
> Band 160m 80m 40m 20m 15m 10m Total
>
> Valid QSOs 0 141 139 163 74 2 519
>
> QSO Points 0 675 607 563 229 8 2082
>
> Bonus/Mult. 0 16 29 44 31 2 122
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>
>
>
> TX/RX: FT1000MP
> Power: 100W
> Antennas: Rotatable 15m Double Extended Zepp @ 50ft
> Logger: Writelog 10.40J
> Operators: G0WAT, G4AXX, G4CWH, G4EAG, G4KNO
> Soapbox:
>
> This year saw us welcome Paul G0WAT as a guest operator, we all got on
> very well and look forward to having Paul join us again in future events.
> We were looking forward to using our newly developed auto-ATU. In theory
> this would provide instant QSY without the need to transmit to tune,
> unlike the previously used SGC Smartuner. We also reckoned it would be
> lower loss on 80m, the main underperforming band for us. Unfortunately,
> and despite prior testing, we managed to set fire to the antenna side
> capacitor bank PCB. Reluctantly therefore we reverted to last year's
> antenna arrangements. Very disappointing.
>
> On the logging side, one of the PC's now being an XP machine means that
> before every contest we spend several hours getting WL to network
properly.
> We also lost more than half an hour's operating in total with networking
> re-starts - not a problem previously experienced with WL.
>
> Conditions weren't too great on the Saturday. No opening to JA on 15m and
> 10m dead except for two Q's at 19:30. We were concerned that 15m might
not
> be open again and so concentrated on that band. As it was, 15m did open
to
> JA on the Sunday morning, providing a useful drip feed of Q's. As
expected,
> 80m in particular was the problem band. We notice that our competitors
are
> usually behind us on Q's at midnight but they claw that back principally
on
> 80m by the time 20m opens again on the Sunday.
>
> Throughout the contest we were comparing our Q total against what we
thought
> was last year's log. Only after the contest did we realise we were
looking
> at the 2001 log when propagation was far superior! Against 2002's log
we're
> about 25,000 points better off. Considering we got a 10m opening last
year,
> there's hope.
>
> WX was generally good. It did chuck it down early Saturday evening which
> caused us some problems with local arcing noise. We still don't know
where
> it was coming from but it did create S7 noise on all bands for some time,
> though the MP noise blanker did a good job.
>
> 73,
> Andy, G4KNO.
>
>
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> Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 23:15:06 +0100
> From: "Mike Farmer" <G3VAO at hortonbrook.freeserve.co.uk>
> To: "Cooper, Stewart" <coopers at odl.co.uk>, <uk-contest at contesting.com>
> Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] LOTW
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> Yes and by the look of it they have increased the number of hoops to jump
> through - Despite basically liking the idea I will not be taking part
until
> (or if) they removed the snail mail requirements. I see no point in
having
> an e-mail system which relies on snail mail.
>
> 73 de Mike
> G3VAO
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Cooper, Stewart" <coopers at odl.co.uk>
> To: <uk-contest at contesting.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 12:43 PM
> Subject: [UK-CONTEST] LOTW
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> > I notice that the Logbook of the World appears to have gone live
> yesterday.
> >
> > Stewart Cooper
> > GM4AFF
> >
> >
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