[UK-CONTEST] W6EL

[Nigel G3TXF]

Hullo UK Contesters,

I like W6EL too, but it tends to be a bit on the "generous" side. It's great 
for doing Single-Band entries (on the HF bands) because it encourages you to 
keep going even if the band sounds completely dead and no-one is coming back 
to the CQ's! The display is good. My only concern is that it hasn't been 
up-dated for a number of years. I just wonder whether there haven't been 
useful improvements in the general understanding of HF propagation in the 
meantime. It shows multi-hop skip zones nicely too. No good for LF though, 
because it doesn't 'do' greyline propagation.

73 - Nigel G3TXF

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alan Jubb - 5B4AHJ" <g3pmr at shacklog.co.uk>
To: "Andy swiffin" <a.l.swiffin at dundee.ac.uk>; <uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 11:16 AM
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] BERU


> Hi Andy
> I use W6EL Prop, which is easy to use and gives results in the graphical
> form that I prefer. I've found it's accuracy to be fairly good. Don't have
> the URL to hand but I'm sure you'll find it easily enough with Google.
> 73
> Alan 5B4AHJ  P3J
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Andy swiffin" <a.l.swiffin at dundee.ac.uk>
> To: <uk-contest at contesting.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 12:26 PM
> Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] BERU
>
>
>>>
>>> Incidentally, apropos of Andy oeg's comment, I see the report "in
>> them
>>> days"
>>> often included a synopsis of call areas worked each hour by band from
>>
>>> the
>>> UK.  This could still play a part in kindling the interest of
>> potential
>>> entrants who may have missed Gerry's piece and would be a lot less
>>> effort to
>>> extract today than when it was a question of wading through a raft of
>>
>>> paper
>>> logs.
>>
>>
>> LOL-  Great minds think alike (fools seldom differ :-) !
>>
>> I didn't know that was part of the original report - honest.
>>
>> I really do find the kind of information you posted a real help to
>> understanding where to be and when.  And if I do, many of those who've
>> come after who never had the fun of being an SWL should certainly value
>> it.
>>
>> One thing I've been meaning to mention to Don (XTT) for a while is, is
>> there any chance of returning to the old format of band reports in
>> Radcom?  In the olden days when I was an SWL you used to get the reports
>> for each band broken down by time so that you knew what really was
>> workable at a particular time rather than just the theoretical output
>> from prediction programs.
>>
>> Which brings me to - propogation prediction programs -  which ones do
>> people use and are they any good?
>>
>> 73
>>
>> Andy
>> gm8oeg
>>
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