[UK-CONTEST] 80m CC signals in France

[Ian Pritchard]

Bob ...
Thanks for the SWL report...  They are few and far
between nowadays!!

I don't know if G3OLB subscribes to this reflector,
but I would be very interested to know the antenna set
up ...it must be good, he seems to have the edge on
everyone.  An excellent sighnal in the UK and also at
distance.

73 Ian G3WVG

--- "g3ory at lineone.net" <g3ory at lineone.net> wrote:

> Guys,
> 
> My holiday in the South of France meant that I would
> miss last week's 
> 80m CC CW session, so I decided to take my 80m ARDF
> receiver with me 
> and listen to the contest from out there.  The
> receiver is a TCA440 
> superhet with a 4.5kHz IF filter and no AGC or S
> meter. The lack of AGC 
> means that you get a good indication of relative
> signal strength from 
> the level of the audio out.  
> 
> At the start of the session both ends of the path
> were in daylight and 
> I could hear a cacophony of UK signals in the
> contest segment. With the 
> ARDF receiver I was only ever going to hear the
> loudest stations and 
> sure enough many of the 'usual suspects' were there
> with signals at 
> about S7 - G3TBK, G4BUO, G3WVG, G3YHV, G3KLH, G3UJE,
> G3ZVW, G3TXF, 
> G0ORH and so on.  One signal stood out above all the
> rest at about 2 S 
> points stronger and that was G3OLB.
> 
> I could also hear some stations at about S6 and
> these included G3PJT, 
> G3KNU, G3SHF, G3PDH, G0ADH and G3RXP.
> 
> By 2100 BST Montpellier was in darkness but it was
> still light over 
> most of the UK. The S7 signals had advanced to S9
> but G3OLB was still 
> far and away the strongest G now at S9 plus.
> 
> I copied M0PTO and G4ARI in the QRS Corrall at a
> good S7.
> 
> In the UK I get a rather distorted view of relative
> signal strength 
> but I found it interesting to see how stations
> sounded 700 miles away 
> from the home QTH.
> 
> 73
> Bob
> G3ORY
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>
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