[UK-CONTEST] AFS CW Contesters trust your ears...

[Ian White GM3SEK]

Alex GM3ZBE wrote:
>I was interested to note how many people came back to me as G3ZBE instead of
>GM3ZBE, familiarity? or Super check partial?
>
It's mostly SCP... or the misuse of.

If you e-mail K5ZD, he is happy to remove obsolete calls from the 
database, and then the problem will fade away as people update. However, 
he won't insert anybody's new call by individual request - you have to 
send him a log for one of the major international contests.
http://www.k5zd.com/scp/

AFS does bring out a lot of stations that SCP knows nothing about, 
because they have never appeared in anyone's log sent to K5ZD.


>Bloody awful AFS from here, the matching unit shorted and cooked the amp at
>16:50, didn't notice the bright red glow coming out of the top until after
>it went bang.  Spent 40 mins "repairing" the atu but it still didn't work.
>Had to use the rig's internal tuner to match into half the antenna and run
>barefoot for the rest of the contest.
>
>Not my best AFS!

Sorry to hear that.

This was my first AFS since moving from Oxfordshire - and a very 
different experience. Despite being almost the most southerly station in 
Scotland (south of Carlisle and Newcastle) it was still very hard to get 
rolling until the skip started to lengthen. Finished with 227 + 4 dupes, 
and a lot of new lessons learned on the way.

One lesson is definitely to change the dodgy bearings on my paddles, 
which have a nasty habit of sending random Morse, all on their own... 
usually to a member of FOC. (It really is a bit of a B****er!)


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73 from Ian GM3SEK