[UK-CONTEST] 3X5A (was GM4YXI)

[Don Field]

I gather I managed to send out an unreadable file (well, most of my emails
probably are!). Hope this works OK:


I was the 10m operator at 3X5A on Sunday afternoon and the propagation was
typical spotlight stuff - signals coming up from a particular area for a
short period at good strength, then disappearing. I worked only 2 Europeans
during that spell - both were S9! Also worked all over the US, including
Zone 3 (which 3X5A didn't work on 10m last year). Sounded very much like TEP
linked to Sporadic E. I daresay one of the gang will put a longer Voodoo
3X5A report on here in due course - I don't have the actual figures with me.




(the 10m setup we had, by the way, was a 3-ele monobander on a 20ft pole, on
top of the hotel roof, which was about 80ft high. The sea was about 100ft
away (at high tide) on a north-facing promontory)



Don G3XTT


----- Original Message -----
From: stewart rolfe
Sent: 12/03/08 09:15 am
To: UK Contest Reflector
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] GM4YXI CQWW CW 2008


--- On Tue, 2/12/08, Kerr, Prof. K.M. wrote:

>
> My one non-LF QSO was 3X5A on 10m…..I needed that for a
> new one; they were the only signal I could hear on 10m and
> were true S9!

Ditto here at GW0GEI Keith except I *could* hear a few other signals which
were strong enough but totally undecipherable. The 'chopped up' sound was
like an external keyer plugged into the rig's internal keyer...a total mess.
I thought my K3 had collapsed on me but still the Voodudes were there at a
solid 599.

Steve 'GEI (6m freak) tried to give me a 30sec lesson in 10/6m F2
transequatorial propagation etc but I wasn't the most attentive pupil at the
time. It's probably the sort of thing you'd only experience during a big
contest though....

Stewart, GW0ETF