[UK-CONTEST] VHF Field Day

[gm4fam at tiscali.co.uk]

I agree 100% Dave.  The CW section on 4m used to be a lot of fun and 
would result in a lot of QSOs otherwise impossible on the 'less out of 
date mode' which of course is SSB (as we are now led to believe from a 
correspondent in July RadCom!).

I finished building a 6 ele 4m yagi a couple of weeks prior to the 
event - apart from various Scottish portables I heard 2 very loud G 
stations in the Midlands on SSB and a host of weaker ones, but not one 
was on CW - net result, no points for all (30w of my SSB just wouldn't 
cut it).

Since then, even from this far North, I have worked numerous stations 
on CW in 11 DXCC countries around Europe - I have tried telling each of 
them that CW is out of date but for some reason they didn't listen or 
didn't want to understand (can't think why).

Still, it was good to see yet another 2 wasted pages published in 
RadCom at the expense of various HF and VHF results reflecting the 
enthusiasm of so many.

73 de Cris
GM4FAM



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