[UK-CONTEST] Commonwealth contest - tales from a QRPer (G3YMC)

[Tom Wylie]

I amde a few QSOs on Saturday afternoon and evening.   I was astonished at 
the strength of some of the VKs, ZLs and 9Ms on 40m early evening.   I have 
a dipole at 70 feet and they were knocking on the end of my S meter.   Nice 
to meet up again with Brett Graham VR2BG who was masquerading as 9M6BG.... 
Might just submit a check log

tom
gm4fdm

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Sergeant" <dave at davesergeant.com>
To: <uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 13, 2005 9:05 PM
Subject: [UK-CONTEST] Commonwealth contest - tales from a QRPer (G3YMC)


> As I indicated earlier, I did not intend to do the Commonwealth
> contest anything like seriously, only as an excellent chance to work
> some of the rarer places. So only 26 QSOs, but did spend quite a lot
> of time in the shack. On QRP I obviously wouldn't have been able to
> make a significant score under the conditions.
>
> Chasing those slots certainly worked - I worked 9 new 2005 countries
> and one all time QRP one (9M6BG). Even 10m showed some life, but I
> heard zilch in the way of VK there.
>
> These little snippets caused me amusement:
>
> 9J2BO - after calling for some while to crack the pileup on 15m where
> he obviously had problems from EU QRM and there was quite a long
> pause between QSOs - 'G3YMC sri for the delay, was getting a new log
> sheet'. I failed to break the pileup on 10m on Saturday but got Brian
> there first call on Sunday.
>
> ZL4BR - 'G3Y? agn..' - 'G3YEC QSO b4'. He continued to ignore me then
> when I continued calling gave in: 'G3YEC 599338' - I think he then
> got it correct but refused to say anything other than 'QSL'..
>
> VK4WIA - not sure who was operating there, but I was a bit surprised
> when he said 'G3YMC fb Dave'..
>
> All this was with my K2 at 5W into a longwire.
>
> Anyway, all good fun.
>
> 73 Dave G3YMC
>
> http://www.davesergeant.com
>
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