[UK-CONTEST] CQWW SSB - G2F
James Balls
jim at j1mbo.f9.co.uk
Fri Nov 3 04:23:53 EST 2006
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">Well here at G2F we operated for the whole 48hrs in Multi Single HP All Band. The MKV Field was a new acquisition only a couple of weeks ago from John G4IRN, it now has the Inrad roofing filter and a set of Inrad 2.1Khz filters for SSB.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">The Spiderbeam was proven in the location and seemed to work well leading up to the contest. The Moxon and Battlecreek were really unknown and never used in anger.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">Post contest I feel the Moxon needs work as the F/B seemed poor and it really needs to be up at 60ft, That I feel will happen during the winter. Last winter we built a trailer for the 60’ versatower we had and it work very well indeed.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">The MKV was a challenge, none of us had ever used the FT1000 series before and I’m not sure we are getting the best out of the radio. I’d like to visit a station that uses a MP series to see how they would use it in anger and hopefully pick up some tips, failing that a discussion over email would be most welcome.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">Thanks to everyone that offered advice on the filtering earlier this year but we haven’t the depth of operators or the pockets to put a "Proper" Multi Single on the air.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">Again we seem to struggle on 40m from the east coast, every contest this year and seemingly for the last couple of years 40m has been poor with runs of DL’s eluding us, I guess with the low sun spot the further west you can get the better chance of DL’s<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">It was very difficult to build any sustainable runs on any band, maybe I should question our operating techniques as I’m sure with the antenna’s listed above we should have managed some good runs.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">Operating during the RTTY leg a few weeks back we had some fantastic runs, maybe just conditions didn’t suit us on the east coast.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">The other problem we had was the 2 in G2F, we had station after station thinking it was a 3, do any others with a 2 in the call experience this?<BR><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><BR>A failed rotator at 8pm on Sunday, leaving the Spider beam pointing SE and a short power outage at 4PM on Sunday whcih upset the PC were our only hickups, N1MM ran well.<BR> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">Anyway I’m now looking forward to the WAE RTTY which will be a casual entry of maybe 24 hours over the whole weekend, that’s if I can the MKV to play ball on RTTY<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">Regards,<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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