[UK-CONTEST] IARU G3YMC SOAB CW QRP

[Dave Sergeant]

Well I had a little bash in this event, though I certainly did not do 
it too seriously. With current conditions I found it not that 
inspiring, but did manage to work a little bit of dx. Certainly 10m 
was open for long times at least to EU. I turned in around 11pm 
local, and then had a couple of hours from 7am.

281 QSOs

At least I was able to was able to work GB5HQ on all bands. As 
expected 10m CW was by far the hardest, I called for a long time 
while they were just hovering around the noise and eventually made a 
good QSO on a short peak. 15m was also fairly hard, but I later heard 
them an excellent signal there. Only managed 4 bands with DA0HQ!

I got a nice certificate through the other day for the 2005 event - 
in the QRP section I was first G, first Zone 27 and 10th world. Not 
sure how I will fair this time, but got the impression support from G 
land wasn't that high. Maybe all the serious ops were at GB5HQ!

73 Dave G3YMC

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