[UK-CONTEST] ARS 144mhz

[Andy Swiffin]

Hi
Well, I'll be the first to kick off on this one, seeing as its the first contest I've appeared at for many months.   I wasn't intending to put in an entry due to not actually being in an affiliated radio society (!) but just wanted to see what the new QTH would be like (still a building site!).   

Well it wasn't really worth the bother.   

A grand total of 5 QSOs wasn't a lot to show and I now understand what Ray has been going on about with the distinction between M2 and only UK squares counting for mults.  Yes I do know there are no mults in this contest, but some of the few stations I could hear were mostly beaming to Europe (as evidenced by the people they were working) - how much more so this will be where there are square multipliers to be had.   It'll be interesting to see how things sound on one of the activity contests - I intend to be active in those from the new year (hint hint put the beam this way!!).  That is unless I die of boredom and stick to MS on VHF in future.    I'd like to post my vote to what Ray has been saying if you want to encourage more activity from outside the midlands/south England in these _UK_ vhf contests

Still, it was nice to hear the old Kent beacon again - we'll be completely stuffed up here if that goes QRT, nice to work G4RRA down in Devon just to show that it is possible, but where was everyone in between?   I'd be interested to hear how strong ANG was with you all yesterday?

Hopefully see you all in the ACs

73
Andy
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