[UK-CONTEST] 80mCC

[Bob Edgar]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Edgar" <bob.edgar at radiomail.co.uk>
To: "Steve White" <g3zvw at talktalk.net>
Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 8:26 PM
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] UK-Contest Digest, Vol 50, Issue 2


> Steve,
>
> Yes, much the same in further east in South Devon.   At the start I was 
> flying (by my standards).   The pile-up was big enough to be a hindrance. 
> I thought yes, this skip is just the right length for us 'out of the 
> centre' stations for once, and it was.   But only for 20 minutes, then it 
> suddenly died.
>
> I worked 48 in 20 minutes, but finished on just 77.   The rest were either 
> locals (and there's very few down here), GMs, EUs and GU/GJs (fairly local 
> to here).   I've never heard the band so apparently quiet for 80mCC!
>
> All good fun.
>
> Bob G0KYS
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Steve White" <g3zvw at talktalk.net>
> To: <uk-contest at contesting.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 9:50 AM
> Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] UK-Contest Digest, Vol 50, Issue 2
>
>
>> 91 QSOs here (2/3 of them in the first 20 minutes). It was like someone 
>> hit
>> the propagation 'off' button at 8:20pm. From here, the band closed almost 
>> in
>> an instant. After that the few G's I could hear were very weak (called 
>> G4BUO
>> several times but didn't get through, and some other G's took several
>> attempts to get the callsign or report). At least GMs and continentals 
>> were
>> workable at reasonable strength, though there weren't stacks of them.
>>
>> That's high angle absorbtion for you!
>>
>> Steve, G3ZVW (Devon)
>>
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