[UK-CONTEST] 1.8MHz - G3SJJ - A Senior Moment

[Bob Henderson]

dear oh dear

RTFM next time?

73

Bob, 5B4AGN


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "G3SJJ" <g3sjj at btinternet.com>
To: "UK Contest Reflector" <uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2006 8:45 AM
Subject: [UK-CONTEST] 1.8MHz - G3SJJ - A Senior Moment


> With dry wx conditions during the week my noise level was at a bearable 
> s7, so I decided to give this one a go again. Worked a couple of ZLs in 
> the last week and some "Good Signal" reports on the DX Cluster led me to 
> think I could be competitive. Local ground conductivity and antenna 
> height return a minimum SWR of 1.8 going up to about 2.7:1 at the CW 
> band edges on the 160m dipole, so I put an L-match in the coax at the 
> base of the mast, which is about 100m from the shack. All set then. N1MM 
> working a treat and very smooth to use. Just has to be the best logging 
> program around since CT first appeared on the scene over 20 years ago.
> 
> I guess bad earache didn't help and may have been an omen. I settled on 
> 1810.6. It was nice and quiet, but so was activity. I managed about 46 
> Qs in the first 50 minutes, of which 17 were UK entrants, until some 
> kind person alerted to me to the fact that the contest sub-band in fact 
> ended at 1820. Very embarassing. I moved immediately up to around 1834 
> but the motivation had gone and static crashes kept knocking out the 
> incoming exchange. I switched off at 2250 with 102 Qs..
> 
> I will submit a checklog with the request that UK stations that called 
> me should not be penalised for my abuse of the rules. Having said that, 
> it does seem an anomaly that UK entrants in the RSGB Contest are not 
> allowed to make contacts below 1820, yet UK and anyone else in the PACC 
> are allowed there.
> 
> Chris G3SJJ
> 
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