[UK-CONTEST] CC G3SJJ

G3SJJ g3sjj at btinternet.com
Sun Mar 12 05:36:36 EST 2006


What a civilised way to contest! I drew up an operating schedule based 
on Gerry's comments. First session was 1230-1830 with 103 Qs in the log. 
At an average rate of 16 Qs per hour, there was plenty of time to CQ, 
S&P, move around bands, work some  DX,  read e-mails, read new CDXC 
journal and plan my next 2 contests. Continued after a pleasant evening 
meal, from Rick Stein's Seafood Lovers Guide, accompanied by a bottle of 
French Chardonnay. That session from 2150-2350 added a further 44 Qs. 
After some sleep, the last session was planned from 0530-0930, but there 
was nothing new to work in the first half hour so started at 0600. It 
was dire, adding just 20 Qs over 3.5 hours. I switched off and went for 
breakfast at 0930 with 167 QSOs, although I guess around 6 or 7 were 
non-Commonwealth. Just made sense to log them so that I could transfer 
the whole lot into my general logging program. N1MM performed smoothly, 
the development team had modded the Jubilee format to add a field for 
HQ, and also include it in the Cabrillo file.
Bnd   Qs
80    18
40    57
20    77
15    14
10      1
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      167

Ft1kMP, Acom 1000, A4s at 50ft, 2 el phased gp array for 40m, 66ft gp 
for 80m

Chris G3SJJ



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