[UK-CONTEST] AFS CW G0ORH

[Fred Handscombe]

Ken

You doth complain too much!

I left Dubai early Sunday morning (2130z Sat) having worked all day, flew 
over night to Amsterdam.  Very little sleep due a malodrous XXXXL in the 
next seat leaving me short of space and woken each time he moved (which was 
often).

Layover in Amsterdam and home to the QTH at 10:30, G4XRV came to collect 
some stuff so we talked and drank coffee for an hour.

Wind up tower and rig up dipole

Eat nasty service station sandwich

Do contest

Had to operate standing up twice to keep awake.  267

I did have my best nights sleep for months lsst night though!

73 Fred
G4BWP

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ken Chandler" <g0orh at sky.com>
To: "Uk-Contest at Contesting.Com" <uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, January 15, 2007 1:41 PM
Subject: [UK-CONTEST] AFS CW G0ORH


>I was feeling pretty tired for AFS having just driven from Isle of Arran, 
>west coast of Scotland to Newbury. I was lucky to get off Arran, as ferry 
>services were being shutdown due to the severe weather conditions. After 
>raising the tower and getting my antenna and feeder untangled from the 
>tower sections I had 15minutes spare to the off.
> Conditions at first were difficult with deep qsb. Some very close stations 
> were just audible above the noise...Strange...but GAV was bouncing in from 
> GM, but JJ had a weak signal here in the south. I thought he was running 
> 200w instead of his usual 400watts!!!!!!!.
>
> Anyway here used MP5, barefoot 200watts, into a doublet at 50ft, Qso's 
> 224. Best DX, 2 5B4's.
> The best run came during the last 15minutes with quite a few new calls 
> giving me a contact
>
>
> HNY
>
> Ken..G0ORH.
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