[UK-CONTEST] 80m CC

[Andy swiffin]

> 
> Conditions were great last night and I clocked up my highest total in

> the CW 
> CC. Worked everyone I could here but I need to see what I can do
about 
> local 
>...
> were quieter!  Tried a spot of running for a short period with little

> success and apologies to F5VHY, I could not get the H and the Y in
the 
> call 

I think it may have been f5vhy I owe apologies to as well, N1MM crashed
with a blue screen in mid qso which left me rather flustered, couldn't
even log the contact because I lost the call!!

I tried running most the time and it wasn't too succesful - only 40odd
logged, do other S&pers not bother calliing someone whos a little bit
weak or am I very very weak?  Whenever I try S&P inevitably whoever I
call gets called by someone else much stronger and I end up waiting in a
queue twiddling my thumbs and whiling away the whole contest listening
to someone elses QSOs!!  Hence why I prefer to try running in these
events.

However,  I also always seem to pick running frequencies that a
fishphone is going to suddenly wake up on!  

On the subject of QRS corral I often use the area above 3550 because a)
there's usually no-one else there (fishphones are away having a cup of
tea :-) and b) last night I reached a record maximum run speed of 18wpm
- I always run at a speed I'm comfortable with (usually 16!) and so
nearly qualify for the qrs corral,  _and_ I always slow the speed down
when called by someone slower.  I was particularly pleased last night to
be called by a few at slower speeds than me, nice to know that people
feel they can!  When tuning round there were a few I heard rattling away
at over 30wpm , it's surely counterproductive?

And lastly, I'm sure that Steve himself will be able to answer this,
but what serial was gw4alg handing out?  I copied 158, and thought
surely not and asked for the repeat -  my CW is pretty ropey but it
sounded like 158 second time to.


73
Andy
gm8oeg