[UK-CONTEST] RE:80m CC frequencies

[Darren Hatcher]

Hi.

Here on the East Anglian Coast, I spent much of the evening S&P - but the
propogation sounded very odd. 

Having made 45Q's at the end I noted that the noise levels at Martlesham in
Suffolk seemed to change two or three times over the 90 minutes of play. 

2E0ATY was loud all evening and not having problems, but 'SJJ more or less
dropped into the noise and then 15 minutes later started rising again. I
noted that EI was very loud at the start and then vanished, followed by
easterm Europe coming in S9++. GM stations seemed to come and go.

The usual big signals from the midlands (NAS, VHB, etc) were more or less on
my noise floor. 

I agree with Chris below where anybody over 60 was probably doing well.

Anyway, good fun as usual and I'm all for having to use the radio and the
ears to test the operators skills, rather than churn through QSOs.

Catch you in the next one.

Darren - G0WCW (as G4MRS)

-----Original Message-----
From: uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com
[mailto:uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of G3SVL
Sent: 08 February 2005 09:03
To: uk-contest at contesting.com
Subject: [UK-CONTEST] RE:80m CC frequencies

At 23:21 07/02/2005, G3SJJ wrote:
>.... have the same sub-band 3600 to 3775, with SSTV sector being 
>disallowed. This would remove the constant battle and prove that we 
>rather than them are human!

Ah, but this would only be replaced by all those DL's reminding us that 3650
- 3700 is not a contest area under the band plan.

What was peculiar last night was at 20:13 I was given a serial of 43 and by
20:30 a couple of stns were at the 60 point - I'd be interested to know what
their final score was. Yet, despite my lowly 49 Q's, all bar one on S & P,
less than a half of the stns worked gave me a serial number higher than mine
and that dropped to only 6 stns in the last hour. So it looks as if a few
stns did well and everyone else suffered.  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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