[UK-CONTEST] ARRL 10m

[Cooper, Stewart]

Remarkably I could hear ZW5B on Saturday evening at around 1900 - 2000.
I didn't attempt to work him, but he was there all the time. I have been
to the ZW5B station - they have an enormous box of 4 yagis for 10m - it
certainly works! Or maybe not, 'cos when I was hearing them they were
also spotted by a W7!!

73
Stewart
GM4AFF


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[mailto:uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Clive Whelan
Sent: 10 December 2007 11:08
To: UK Contest Reflector
Subject: [UK-CONTEST] ARRL 10m

Well, I guess we can all agree that it was pretty much a non-event!

However, I think that in some ways it is more interesting than when
conditions are good. Unless I am in denial, it seems that most Eu
stations struggled. My own situation was compounded by the fact that the
antenna was cranked down to 15ft because of the ( forecast) winds, and
was therefore fixed to the East, and so I made only 25 QSOs in 11
countries. I do confess however that I spent more time eating and
watching soccer on TV ( not necessarily simultaneously!) than I did
operating, since my hair shirt was in the laundry.

A quick review of 3830 postings would suggest that on the other side of
the pond, they did at least get some genuine Es propagation, and even
perhaps some F layer on the North/South path. However I made only one
genuine Es QSO, and that was with DL1IAO who was strong. The rest of the
Eu QSOs seemed to be a mixture of scatter and Es, sharing the worst
attributes of both, viz seriously weak with intense QSB. I suspect that
there was some side scatter, since I worked a number of OH stations as
well as SM and OZ. Paradoxically, I worked just a single 9A staion, a
couple of Fs, and didn't even hear  an Italian station at all . Combined
with the above, that might indicate that the incipient Es "cloud" was
located over Northern Europe. Somewhat to the contrary, OL5M was the
most consistent signal over the duration of the contest, but couldn't
hear me until his own signal rose above S6 ( which in those conditions
is a massive signal!).


Did anyone from the UK work outside Europe, or have any contrary
experience of propagation?


73



Clive
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