[UK-CONTEST] Commonwealth GM0GAV

Gavin Taylor GM0GAV gavin at hfdx.co.uk
Tue Mar 14 17:49:25 EST 2006


 

Didn't even manage a full 12 hour entry this year, just a few hours on
Saturday evening then again on Sunday morning. Too busy doing family things
and watching the rugby on Saturday afternoon. No qso's on 10 or 15m, 20m
longpath didn't really happen on Sunday morning which was disappointing.

 

Ended up with 128 Q's, the highlight was being called by FK8DD for a new
band slot on 40! Seemed to be more ZL's active than VK's?

 

The Commonwealth never fails to generate plenty of post contest debate! I
agree with Don 'XTT, I believe activity from the Antipodes and probably VE
will continue to decline. It's just a matter of how quickly it declines. I
can see why a VK of Eastern European decent would not be excited by the
prospect of spending 24 hours working 50 G's on 3 different bands and 25
VE's on 3 different bands.

 

Time to put BERU to bed and a new Commonwealth contest to emerge me thinks.

 

 

73 Gavin

GM0GAV

 

 



More information about the UK-Contest mailing list