[UK-CONTEST] GB5HQ

[Phil Daniells]

Tom,

you may be interested to know that your 160m station was 55 down here in 
GJ at 1600z.  A tremendous effort.  Sadly you couldn't hear me.  It 
would have been a good haul for daylight.

I don't think it was a 'midnight sun' effect on this occasion.  This was 
a good four hours before our sunset.  I suspect it was more to do with 
relative noise levels.  It was very quiet here on Saturday afternoon, 
the noise level reaching a mere S1.  I was even hearing stations better 
than Bob YOX; now that does make a change!

Oh yes.  I guess your transmit antenna was probably more efficient than 
my pipsqueak 1/4 wave inverted-L at 10m height, so tipping the balance a 
bit further away from you hearing me.

I don't think I was alone in hearing you at that time.  I heard a couple 
of Gs calling you as well.  I think Geoff G4FKA was one of them.

Incidentally, in the past I've done a fair deal of operating from the 
Highlands at this time of year using big portable antennas.  My 
experience has been just the opposite of yours - the stronger Gs were 
nearly always plainly audible from about 1700z onwards, but not workable 
until much later.

Again, I put this down to differing noise levels; the portable sites 
were very, very quiet, even using big verticals.


Anyway, thanks for your efforts and a pleasure to work you on both of 
your bands.

73,

Phil, GJ4CBQ.




Tom GM4FDM wrote:

Just one other minor point I meant to mention in my first e-mail.    Up 
here in Scotland we are in the land of the midnight sun.    It might 
well have been the case when it was dark in your part of the world we 
still had full daylight and so we didnt get propagation till about 1 
hour after you guys in the south.   So if you called us at the start of 
your propagation, yes we were struggling to read you both due to prop 
and band noise.   During the Sunday morning we could hear Steve GW0GEI 
working stations on 160 we could not hear - so ground wave is perhaps a 
consideration also.



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