[UK-CONTEST] RSGB 21-28 MHz Phone G4OBK

[Darren GØTSM]

Firstly, well done Phil, it was hard going, I wonder if there is a 
special prize for anyone that didnt fall asleep..

Station here was a pair of 1000mp's into a 10M dipole @20ft and a 15M 
dipole @26ft, both dipoles were rotatable but were only 40ft apart. 
Bandpass filters were a pair of coxial stub filters and I ran with both 
rigs's ATUs inline. Switching was from a homebrew SO2R box and the 
logging prog was Writelog.
I spent a lot of the time trying to master the SO2R technique, when you 
have 4 VFO's to play with it can get a bit tricky.
This was the first year that I used the cluster in the SSB contest and I 
used it to find one mult on 10M, S79, and a couple on 15M. The problem 
of course is that with 100W/Dipoles you aren't on the top of the pile 
and you can't be wasting time in a busy contest like this, my ratemeter 
actually showed something like 'give up and go to the pub' so I did :-)
I have an Icom 756pro2 which is packed away and I think that would have 
been better to use on 10M, you can watch the band scope for anything 
that appears on 10m.

I ended up with:
        Q   M
21    48   28
28    21   7
       69   35 = 7245
or something like that.

It was frustrating to hear 9+20/+30 Eu's in the pileup for the S79 on 
10M but hardly anyone answered my CQs. I had a few stations call me on 
15M and when I asked for a QSY to 10 they said 'no propagation' but when 
they did eventually QSY they were 9+.

10M best DX S79, missed 5U, 9J, TZ as they were too weak on my dipole.
15M best DX YB, 5U, PY, ZS6, ZS3, TU.

Any yes, I did nod off just the once with the 15M rig on 'auto-CQ',, 
it's a bit hypnotic when no one calls.


Darren...



Phil Catterall wrote:
> Hi all de G4OBK 
>
> I picked a good year to do this one after a long gap....... 
>
> Diabolical condx with a hint of quality DX around. Not a single JA VK ZL W VE worked. Thank God for the ZS's.
>
> Claiming: 14550 Points
>
> 10m: 7 QSOs with 6 mults:
>
> S79EC/A
> 9J2BO
> ZS4JAN
> ZS6WI
> I
> F
>
> 15m: 90 QSOs with 44 Mults, best DX worked:
>
> OD5NH    AT0D    YB1BAD    5N0GDS    VU3BPZ (ANT)    J6/G3TBK    A45WB    VQ9LA    9J2BO    ZP9CN    5U7B    TZ9A
>
> Thanks to the DVK I did not lose my voice during the 1000s of fruitless CQ Calls, and managed to get a fair amount of station admin work done while the voice keyer was blasting away!
>
> 73 Phil G4OBK 
>
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