[UK-CONTEST] G3NKC/P HF NFD report

[Dave Sharred]

Just had our log scored; so here goes:

		Q's 		Points
TopBand 	150 		1072
Eighty 		215 		737
Fourty 		306 		981
Twenty 	395 		1200
Fifteen 	211 		659
Ten 		255 		1506

Total 		1532 		6155


Conditions on HF really helped this time; good 10m; but also, 15 often seems
to be the forgotten band !
160m - Perception is that EU must have been suffering from a lot of QRN. We
had some, but many EU could not copy so well - I remember a HB9 in
particular struggling with us, and complaining of QRN.  Scores well down on
our target, but good enough compared to the posted scores.

Strange calls - too many to mention ; mainly from Germany !  So we
eventually got used to DR2006 somethings;    and had to contend with
DA0HAMCAMP !
The strangest to me was towards the end - was called by DL36RA. I reckoned
it must have been DL3BRA; but he corrected the call to DL36RA; a couple of
times afterwards !  I have been advised by good contacts in DL that there
are no DL36 calls;  and in fact someone was penalised last year as a UBN for
DL36RA; so I will go with my instincts on this one !

If anyone is interested in sending their logs to the DARC event - they
changed the rules this year, and did without the 10 minute rule at last.
Means you won't get penalised for fast QSY !

Antennae - C31XR & dipoles for 40/80/160m.  We put the C31XR  this year at
60 feet; normally it is below the wires, since we figured we wanted more
high angle. We seemed to perform better on HF with a higher beam !

Ops :  G3NKC, G0MTN, G3VHB  Very tiring with 3, but I know we weren't the
smallest team !

Many thanks also to G3NLY, G4CJC, GW3NAS, GW3KDB,  who as well as being
great company, helped with putting the station together / dismantling; and
keeping us fed and watered.

(I understand G4CJC won the Friday night beer drinking contest on top of a
Curry contest by a mile - he should have a special award for that !)

73


Dave Sharred
G3NKC