[UK-CONTEST] 50MHz Contest Today

[Les Allwood]

35 QSOs Adrian? - luxury !!!

I sat at home, albeit with a less-than-perfect location, calling CQ 
on-and-off (on 100 watts of CW) for the whole three hours. I eventually 
worked one of my locals ten minutes before the end who gave me 599001 !!! I 
won't even bother with a checklog for that !!!

Were you running the 100 watt rig from the main car battery? If so, no 
wonder it went flat. When I'm operating in similar circumstances I use a 
"leisure battery" which has better characteristics in the way it charges and 
discharges. Plus, you always know you can restart the car with the main 
battery!!!

73 de Les, G3VQO in IO91ub

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Adrian Rees (M1LCR)" <rees.a at btconnect.com>
To: "Uk-Contest at Contesting.Com" <uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2005 6:50 PM
Subject: [UK-CONTEST] 50MHz Contest Today


> Hi
> Well we went up the hills in the Peak District, for this mornings 50MHz
> contest. 35 QSO's best DX was down Poole way / North West Scotland. 
> Nothing
> exciting, DX wise. Ran 100 W from a 756PROII into 5 Ele Tonna which caused
> us feed / match problems early on. We wasted 20 minutes re-arranging the
> feed to drop the SWR. We also got hammered by the Buxton Beacon on 50MHz,
> which was +60dB (IO93BF) which was as wide as a barn door with us. Well we
> where next door to it in IO93AF !(Who picked that site ???) Better 
> planning
> next time !
>
> After the contest we learned not to leave the ignition turned on in a
> Discovery. We ended up with a flat battery. The jump leads we had were 
> those
> cheap and nasty ones, with 1mm cable. We repleced that with, wait for it,
> two spare lengths of RG213 we had. Engine started first time !
>
> All in all a jolly day out.
>
> Adrian (M1LCR)
> Operating: G4WXM/P, along with Steve (MW1STE) and Mark (MW1MDH)
>
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