[UK-CONTEST] AFS CW G3YMC

[Dave Sergeant]

Using 5W QRP here from my K2 into a mediocre longwire. My results are 
really not that far below those with 100W into a dipole!!

144 QSOs (55/40/31/18), G, GW, GM and LY

Spent most of the time search and pounce. CQing didn't really get me 
anywhere, though I did have the occasional caller that way. Main 
problem on QRP is that if you find a clear frequency (and there were 
plenty of them) it wasn't long before you got swallowed up below 
people who either didn't listen or couldn't hear me. There seemed to 
be a few who seemed to be very deaf as well...

On filters, I always use the 400Hz filter in the K2. But as we all 
know, some people cannot net  and you have to deft with the IRT to 
find them. But in a contest like this you really do need a narrow 
filter, would have used the 200Hz one but it would have made the 
netting problem worse. Maybe also the difference between those who 
could copy me well (even the LY had no problem) and those who 
couldn't were down to filter and receiver overload problems. I guess 
there were some people out for their only contest of the year with 
SSB filters...

Good fun, but a lot got away.

73 Dave G3YMC

http://www.davesergeant.com