[UK-CONTEST] NFD 2004 Lichfield ARS - G3NKC/P - Open section

[Dave Sharred]

For those interested; we ended up with 1300 QSO's ; after dupes.  Haven't
got a score yet, since we used CT, but you'll have an idea where we will end
up with the QSO's anyway:

160 - 186
80 - 236
40 - 360
20 - 390
15 - 92
10 - 36

As reported by others; 10 m was very hard going; 15 not much better.   20m
seemed very poor to EU propagation also at the start - DL's weren't great
signals.

160/80 m were free from QRN , so we have something to be grateful for.

Was surprised at the number of people that called significantly off - freq ;
in fact, I thought we had a problem with our set-up at one point; but then
realised that it was poor netting!

No real disasters to report - CT worked well; computers stayed up; radios
worked; antenna rotated !

Equipment - dipoles for 160 - 40m;   tribander for 20-10m.

And the WX was great - warm and overcast on most of Saturday (warmed up
immensely at 2000hrs local; when the clouds eventually disappeared !); and
Sunday we overheated !!!

Op's were G3NKC, G3VHB, G0MTN, and G3SJJ.

Many thanks also to G0DAY, G3NLY; GW3KDB and G3NAS for additional support

A great weekend enjoyed by all!


Dave, G3NKC