[UK-CONTEST] 80M SSB CC

[Ian Pritchard]

Hiya Guys

Lots of activity on Monday night, so surprising there are so few messages
here.  It was great to hear so many stations active especially the newer
callsign allocations.

Propagation seemed good although GM stations were much weaker down here in
the South ( Surrey) than they were earlier in the year.  Static levels were
high with me and I had to ask for lots of repeats.

There were, as ever some surprisingly huge signals on the band. Some quite
tiddly ones too.  I worked one station who said (I think! ) that he was
running 40 milliwatts.. amazing 

Anyway 161 Q's with a dipole at 65ft running 100W...not bad but nowhere near
as good as some.

Cheers Ian G3WVG