[UK-CONTEST] CQ160M

[Cooper, Stewart]

I noticed, when I was the focus of a particularly big run/pile that the
callers were really vicious. As I was in no rush I sometimes had to 'QRZ'
with a call fragment 5 or 6 times before the requested station finally came
out of it. Much worse than CQ WW. I suppose the last hour or so becomes a
bit frantic. Wish I'd worked the YA though.

Stewart
AFF

-----Original Message-----
From: G3WVG [mailto:g3wvg at lycos.co.uk]
Sent: 26 January 2004 23:18
To: UK CONTEST
Subject: [UK-CONTEST] CQ160M 


Hi Gang

Didn't spend much time on during the contest ..and when I did I was almost
exclusively S+P.   I had telnet connected and as a result I witnessed at
first hand the  horrendous packet pile-ups.  There was some truly dreadful
operating ... Now, I know that everyone, from time to time, gets their
timing wrong in a pile up and it is a "contest" and one has to be
pro-active. ...But many really loud EU stns simply called repeatedly no
matter who was in QSO.  In fact a large proportion of the time they were
transmitting at the same time as the DX station.  It would be churlish to
name names, but lets just say that national stereotypes
were well supported.

I agree with Don XTT about conditions in the last hour being the best  ..I
also agree that most of Europe (including me!)was distracted by a very loud
YA8G on 1810.5.  I thought conditions otherwise were average.

Anyway 120 QSOs ..58 Counties and 19 States/Provinces
Mult. Highlights   A61,A45, JT1,V3,VP5,EY,JY,TK,C31,D4,5B4 and EK 
Mults Heard and Missed.  9V,YA,FM
Best USA DX :AB9B in MO
Loudest Transatlantic VY2ZM
Most Consistently heard  UK Call. MD4K

Dipole at 60feet , Ancient TS930 and a Quadra Amp (kindly loaned by G3TXF)

73 Ian G3WVG

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