[UK-CONTEST] 3X5A (was GM4YXI)

[Peter Day]

Many thanks for the info Don..

I appear to be one of the fortunates who worked 3X5A on Saturday 
(1219z). I have to say I was amazed your operator at the time came 
back as my real report would have been RST319 at best!!! Neverthless 
you came straight back. You guys have fantastic ears:-)

Many thanks for the five bands 80-10m. (four of them being new ones).

I only use the CQWW Contests to get some new entities.... otherwise I 
hate the darn thing! Give me the Commonwealth and Oceania contests 
anytime.

Gear here: 400W o/P to A3S at 32ft agl. Inverted V dipoles for 80/40m. 
Very poor location to the south and west.

BTW... re the debate on ethics and operating in contests etc... how 
about going back to giving real reports? That would sort out the men 
from the boys :-)) I have some old pencil and paper logs from the 
NFDs of the '60s.. real reports.. oh joy!

73

Peter G3PHO

Don Field wrote:

> 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.
> 
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