[UK-CONTEST] ARRL DX CONTEST SSB

[Dave Sergeant]

On 8 Mar 2005 at 9:44, Cooper, Stewart wrote:

> Question - With such support for the RSGB 80M events, which is all
> very well of course, why so little interest in the major international
> contests from UK Contesters? 

The ARRL DX contests are in a different league, in that you work USA 
stations only. Great if you live there and can work everybody else, 
but this year I was not in the mood (in the CW leg, I don't SSB here) 
to spend the best part of a weekend working only USA when there was 
other dx about which I needed for band slots. So one each of W and VE 
to fill the slots on 80 and 40 (and I couldn't here anything on 10m!) 
was my lot in the CW leg. But I have done the CW leg in previous 
years and enjoyed it.

The 80m CC contests of course are G working mainly G so are domestic 
contests. The format is great, a short session once per month, and it 
certainly seems to have worked - and it is good for getting the rest 
of our club members actually on the air, a battle I seem to be slowly 
winning in Bracknell.

At the moment I am largely in chasing band slot mode, so I shall be 
using the Commonwealth contest this weekend to that purpose, as I 
don't have a chance to do well on QRP in a contest which doesn't have 
a QRP section...

73 Dave G3YMC

http://www.davesergeant.com