[UK-CONTEST] UK performance in CQ WW etc

[Dave Lawley]

 From the message that Steve has just posted I suspect it was not 
intended to go to the whole uk-contest list, but specifically on the 
point of the extension to 40m, it wasn't very clear in the announcement 
when we were supposed to get the band.

The announcement said 0100 31 October. Now, the change from BST to GMT 
officially takes place in the early hours of the morning, 2 or 3am I 
think. That means that at 1am local we're still on BST, so it's 0100BST 
which is 0000GMT. So if Gs went onto the band at 0000GMT that was 
probably ok, but if you wanted to be on the safe side you could wait 
until 0100GMT. In fact at G1A we didn't start using the new bit of the 
band until about 0200GMT.

Perhaps Ofcom will bear this in mind when they let us have 7200-7300 ;-)

I suppose I should have said UTC not GMT in the foregoing waffle, but 
you know what I mean.

Dave G4BUO