[UK-CONTEST] 50mhz rsgb contest

[Steve Jones]

Hi Andy,
Nice to work you in the contest and yes, thanks for the multiplyer! I
worked sixty odd at a fairly steady pace. I hunted and pounced once
every hour and found a few new ones right in the last few minutes.
Thanks to the couple of GI stations who called me - made it worth my
while calling towards GI for prolonged periods (must get a voice keyer
working on my ic7400!) with a recovering sore throat. One of the other
highlights was the YU7 who popped out of the blue at 59 plus and stayed
long enough to complete with no problem - not sure if it was early es or
a long ms burst (probably the former I guess as I have been hearing
strong DL SP and S51 stations in and out in the days before and after
the test). I managed to scrape over the 1 million points mark right at
the end so I was a fairly happy bunny. However, compared to a few years
ago when I last did this contest I found that there were not so many G
stations with 25w or 50w to a small yagi about - I used to be able to
guarantee a steady stream of west/south yorks and midlands stations in
previous years efforts. Maybe they have all migrated to 2m like me, as I
have found more activity on 144300 recently than I have on 6m!

CU in the es season this year

73   

Steve GW0GEI


-----Original Message-----
From: uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com
[mailto:uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Andy swiffin
Sent: 05 May 2004 09:41
To: uk-contest at contesting.com
Subject: RE: [UK-CONTEST] 50mhz rsgb contest

>
>
>>>> "Ray Goff" <ray at g4fon.co.uk> 19/04/2004 13:05:18 >>>
>> Is anyone planning to be active in the 6M contest next weekend?  
>
>Hi,
>
>The Newbury club plan to be on as G5XV/P.
>

Didn't hear you Ray!  In fact I didn't hear much at all - now I
remember why I gave up VHF contesting from up here.  In really good
conditions from a good site (like I had in the early 80s) you can do
really well but from a moderate site in moderate condx with moderate
gear its just plain boring!  Well I made 12 qsos....   EI/P in IO62 was
a new square on 6, a couple each in IO91 and IO92 prove its possible but
mostly I could _just_ hear quite a few signals but not enough to work
out who they were - _almost_ makes me think I should get a bigger
aerial....

Mind you Steve gw0gei was his predictable S9, and of course gd0emg...

Still, its nice when people say to you "ooohh first GM, thanks for the
3 multipliers" - 
Another public service provided by
Andy
Gm8oeg


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