[UK-CONTEST] 1st 1.8MHz test @ G3SVL

[Colin G3PSM]

G3SVL wrote:

> 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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>
Didn't even start!   The open wire feeder parted from the rest of the 
antenna during the late afternoon and it was too windy (and dark) to 
start repairs.

That's my excuse anyway.

73

Colin, G3PSM

 

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