[UK-CONTEST] Fwd: GB5HQ

[G3SJJ]

Peter, I totally agree with Dave, your comments are a big kick in the 
bollocks for all those concerned with GB5HQ, totally unjustified and 
also not appreciated.

As you would be aware if you cared to read the previous thread on this, 
there was a cross section of a) proven operators known to the station 
host and b) some new blood which is vital to keep contesting alive and 
well in this country. So who are you pointing your finger? Thanks a 
bunch if you want to drag down the newer ones, that really is the kind 
of support we don't need.

Each of the locations could not only see what QSOs were being made by 
the others, but could see who was operating and what frequency they were 
on, or who was spotting. Passing stations, ie telling the station you 
are working which band/mode slot to go for next, was done much more than 
before, and then we were able to alert the operators by a single Talk 
message.

There was a lot of very good team working, lots of camaraderie and lots 
of support around the whole team. G3WGV's Starlog software played a 
vital part in this.

As regards your comments about 10m, firstly on SSB there was Steve G0AEV 
whose knowledge of 10m propagation is fantastic. Secondly, in our shack 
all 4 ops were regularly discussing 10m prop as well as hitting the CQ 
button. I vacated the 10m chair at 2200z with only the HQ stations 
audible, none were working anyone. I guess we didn't man the station 
from maybe 0000 to 0300, at around the latter we could here the European 
HQ stations working Carib which was not audible on our stacked 4 eles. 
Top one at 85ft, fed in phase. Tell me please, what more could we do???????

We did appreciate all your QSOs, which I hope were made in the name of 
support rather than to find something to whinge about.

We also appreciated the numerous UK stations that called us and 
responded to our request to move to another band slot. It would have 
been nice to have seen a few more "alias" callsigns which are of course 
quite acceptable, except here on the Reflector

OK, I have just arrived back, had 2 hours sleep during the 24 hours and 
then 1.5 drive home. Ready for a shower and a kip. A fabulous weekend at 
G3LZQ's. John is of course away in Brazil and Trixie at her sister's, so 
we had the run of the house, except we were too busy operating!

Chris G3SJJ  (80/10 CW)

Dave Lawley wrote:
> Peter
>
> Thanks a bunch. As coordinator of GB5HQ I refute your comments, and 
> doubt if they can be justified. You might like to reply off-line with 
> specific examples but overall I have no concern about the makeup of the 
> teams.
>
> Objective observers can look at the operator's list at
> http://www.gb5hq.com/2006/2006-Ops-List.html
> and decide for themselves.
>
> There's no old boy network operating here, but a team of dedicated and 
> experienced contesters who worked extremely well together as a team. 
> Your comments are a kick in the nuts to all of them and are not appreciated.
>
> Dave G4BUO
> GB5HQ Coordinator
>
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