[UK-CONTEST] ARRL 28MHz - G4FKA

[Clive Whelan]

And the amazing thing is the Whelans are not related, now
what are the odds of that!

73


Clive
GW3NJW

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Sub-titled, a contest of four halves or the keying Whelans.

Well that was fun wasn't it (not). Having two antennas
configured as full
wave verticals was never going to be an ideal solution but
Saturday came and I
remembered there was a contest so on with the rig to see
what  happened.

Four halves? Well from one perspective it was Saturday
versus Sunday; from
another it was what I could hear versus what I worked. We'll
come to the
keying Whelans in a minute.

Saturday got off to quite a reasonable start. On from around
0830 up to 10
QSOs quite quickly and each QSO a different DXCC. An
indication of good
conditions to come I thought. Hah! thought the ionosphere
we'll soon put a stop  to
that. Like everyone else I heard the UA3 and heard the 3XM6
and heard the PYs
and LUs. Could I work them? Not likely so after 30 Qs I gave
up and went off
to  write some Christmas cards. Came back up around 2000 but
band had gone to
bed.

Up on Sunday; heard a C4 at 0900 Oh good maybe better to
come. In fact it
was dire. I only heard around half a dozen stations all day
and I'd worked all
bar one yesterday. On SSB in the afternoon all I could hear
were the  Newport
and Kington Langley beacons! On CW there were three of us
and the other  two
were both called Whelan. I felt out of place. Sunday bought
the grand total  of
1 QSO so not a lot to write home about. Lost interest very
early and went off
 to write more Christmas cards and put the decorations up.

Oh how I wish I'd had something to beam at them all. It
wasn't a  weekend for
wet string.

Time to hibernate now so wake me up when 28 comes back!

Geoff G4FKA
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