[UK-CONTEST] 80M Clubs contest series and Northern Ops

[Douglas Maxwell]

Hi All,
    Managed 85 Qs here in Hamilton. I'm right in the central belt of
Scotland between Glasgow and Edinburgh at around 500ft ASL (just on the lip
of the clyde valley). It's 22:30 now and what I would describe as greyline
condx. It was daylight for the full contest here. I think we may be
disadvantaged by the earlier start time as the band seemed to come alive
with new stns round about the 20:00 UTC mark when I worked my only french
stn. I haven't compared my scores from last year yet but this may be too
little data for a proper comparison anyway.

Cheers

Doug
GM0ELP


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Sergeant" <dave at davesergeant.com>
To: <uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, July 03, 2006 10:03 PM
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] 80M Clubs contest series and Northern Ops


> On 3 Jul 2006 at 21:40, Alex GM3ZBE wrote:
>
> > Sorry Gerry, but I don't agree. As someone who has lived in the
> > Midlands and various parts of Scotland I can definitely say that I
> > found things a good deal easier in inter G contests during the 16
> > years I lived in the Midlands. Alex
> >
>
> Well now that tonight's event is over....
>
> 76 QSOs here, a reasonable entry with QRP.
>
> Just before the start of the contest I had an excellent QSO with
> Steve GM4ALG/P in Newcastleton just north of Carlise - we exchanged
> 579/559 reports, both of us running 5W. The only other GM worked was
> GM0ELP, I heard you Alex GM3ZBE once but you were pretty weak down
> here in Bracknell and we didn't manage a QSO. So maybe the
> propagation down to us in the south is not as bad as suggested...
>
> As usual in these events, I had an excellent rate at the start with a
> good run on 3523. When I eventually started search and pounce I found
> I had already worked most people. Some regulars missing again (and
> not to mention the usual strong GMs!).
>
> 73 Dave G3YMC
>
> http://www.davesergeant.com
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