[UK-CONTEST] CQWW SSB - the good old days!

[Andy swiffin]

>Objective:- Bag a few new countries & give away the GU Mult. Running
QRP to
>a wet noodle certainly presented its own challenges!
>With all the "discussion" about equality between nations, band plans
>(recommended or otherwise), output power etc I wish to add my 0.5
penny or
>should that be 1 euro's worth:

Were you on 10?  If so I could possibly hear you up here in GM- I heard
a GU at one point but didn't note the callsign, I just remember thinking
it was a callsign I'd not heard before and a shame they probably
wouldn't hear me as I needed GU on 10.


> 
>I was, as always, disappointed at the numerous stations who had their
foot
>firmly planted on the DVK "send" button, listening for all of half a
second
>before firing off another machine-gunned CQ or QRZ
>Maybe if they had have listened for just a bit longer, they might
have
>picked up another weak mult or two. I certainly got very fed-up with
that
>attitude and not having a KW / beam combo moved along to the next
deserving
>station.


And how come those CPs and OAs (and others) were S9 on the meter but
never heard me even when no-one else was apparantly calling them (or was
it that they already had the mult and couldn't be bothered?).   On the
other hand 9j2kc was only about s3 here but heard me first time - nearly
fell off my chair.

> 
>The other new "invention" that caused me much amusement was Super
Partial
>Check. I had more that one QSO that went something like this:
> 
>ME: GOLF UNIFORM 4 WHISKY TANGO NOVEMBER
>DX: Go the GOLF UNIFORM 4
>ME: GOLF UNIFORM 4 WHISKY TANGO NOVEMBER
>DX: Was That GU4EON?
>ME: GOLF UNIFORM 4 WHISKY TANGO NOVEMBER
>DX: Was that GU4YOX?
>ME: GOLF UNIFORM 4 WHISKY TANGO NOVEMBER
>DX: WAS that GU4CHY?
>ME: GOLF UNIFORM 4 WHISKY TANGO NOVEMBER   GOLF UNIFORM 4 WHISKY
TANGO
>NOVEMBER
>DX: OK GU4WTN 59 zz
>What a wonderful creation!

I prefer that to what happened to me on more than one occasion.

Spend half an hour calling some DX station and finally:

DX: The GOLF MIKE EIGHT GO:

ME: GOLF MIKE EIGHT OSCAR ECHO GOLF, GERMANY MEXICO EIGHT ONTARIO
ENGLAND GERMANY..  (no one gets echo!)

DX: KILO 3 DELTA... YOURE 59 10 (or 8 or ) QRZ ....  (and back to the
pileup with never another thought for the gm8)

As John Cleese said, "The despair I can stand, its the hope that
crucifies me" 

 
>That aside, I enjoyed the weekend and look forward to the CW leg.
> 

Me too!

73
Andy
gm8oeg