[UK-CONTEST] RE:80m CC frequencies

[Donald Field]

Perhaps, but perhaps not. The conditions were indeed interesting. I entered 
the fray around 2015 and there were several stations at S9+ while the rest 
were in the mush. I was beginning to think those loud ones were running 
linears, but within 15 minutes most of them, too, were in the noise whereas 
others had increased dramatically in strength. The most obvious instance was 
later in the contest when I worked GM0OGN (Outer Hebrides) at 20 over 9, and 
yet within 2 minutes he was down to S5. It was the stations in the extremes 
(Cornwall, Scotland) who seemed to have the advantage in this one, whereas 
those of us in the Home Counties were too close to the masses, and had no 
skywave propagation. So perhaps this is fair, as the distant participants 
tend to lose out in some of the other events. For myself, I gave up after 19 
QSOs - kept calling folk, only to have them CQ in my face. This is with the 
same 80m antenna that, in the FOC Marathon at the weekend, had given me easy 
QSOs with ZL, A4, all over the US, etc!

Don G3XTT

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Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 9:47 AM
Subject: RE: [UK-CONTEST] RE:80m CC frequencies


> Hmm, tongue in cheek, methinks! JJ
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> For that reason alone I would vote to keep the Jan/Feb contests so we 
> learn
> more about how to deal with such condx.
>
> Chris G3SVL
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