[UK-CONTEST] 1.8MHz Contest chez G3XTT

[Donald Field]

Well, let me give a "latecomer's" view.

My brother is visiting this weekend, so I didn't get on until about 2330. 
Thought I would stay in one place and call CQ, and see who was on the ball! 
It appears that BUO and WGV had similar ideas - I never did hear Dave, and 
only caught John in the last 30 secs of the contest when I had a quick tune 
to see who was about.

Heard some huge serial numbers being passed when I arrived on the band 
(well, 150 or so), so expected a big pile-up, but it never really happened. 
Maybe many of the early players had gone to bed by then? (And, yes, IZD's 
antenna had fallen down, having seen Ivan's post!). SJJ scores high marks 
for being the first "big gun" to find me, but TSH/P, BJ, BJM, etc. all got 
there in due course. Very weak signals from G at times, whereas loud signals 
from around EU, and a couple of transatlantic QSOs. 73 Q's in the end:

UK 37 (G GI GM GW)
LY 1
YL 1
W 1
VE 1
SP 1
OY 1
LA 1
F 1
UR 2
UA 2
OK 3
EI 3
ON 4
PA 4
DL 9

(I think that adds up to 72, but it's near enough!)

So exactly 50% UK, 50% non-UK. For the first time, spotted the subliminal 
message which comes up in SD when you work Paul - "You deserve extra points 
for this QSO" - quite so!

Station: FT-1000MP MkV (no INRAD yet), Quadra, inv-L at 80ft.

73 Don G3XTT

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "G3SVL" <G3SVL at manyoaks.co.uk>
To: <uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2005 12:01 PM
Subject: [UK-CONTEST] 1st 1.8MHz test @ G3SVL


> Strange!  Band was noisy at the start but like Don (BJ) went very quiet 
> part way through. The SWR was OK and the Eu's were still pounding in but 
> no strong G's.  When I called CQ I got PA's DL's, OY etc.  - but few G's. 
> After an unproductive run around 22:45 I was spotted by AA1K - obviously 
> radiating enough RF but not landing where the mults were!
>
> I also took time off to try to work 6O0CW and BV4CT - neither with 
> success. I'll be interested to see how the 'late comers' BUO and XTT 
> faired - sounded like they had good runs starting around midnight. 
> Strongest consistent sigs down here on the Sussex Coast were G3BJ, G4BJM 
> and at the end G3SJJ. Few were stronger than the PA's!
>    * 99 Q's (46 with G's; 53 with non-G)
>    * FT1000 MkV (with the well-worth-it INRAD roofing filter) + TL922
>    * Inv L 40 up 90 out -- far too windy to put the Titanex up
>
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