[UK-CONTEST] ARS 144mhz

[Paul pasquet]

Hello Andy

Also nice to work you in the contest.

I also agree with Ray with regards to the scoring system,if I had a pound for everyone who told me I was loud off the back of the antenna I would have retired to somewhere warmer than Devon by now!

The fact is that the majority beam east to get the distance,or in the case of the activity contest the multipliers.

This leaves those of us in the more remote parts of the country out on a limb.If I didnt run high power from this location I would never be able to attract the attention that I do,I know for a fact that many at my local club dont bother coming on because even if they do hear someone they cant get them to swing the antennas to the South West.
Having operated from the east coast on many occasions our main antenna stays east most of the time,with the occasional turn West if the DLs and PAs dry up,which isnt very often.

As far as GB3ANG is concerned it was actually worse than normal for most of the day, so it looks like your new QTH might work out pretty well !

Paul G4RRA


 

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> Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 09:33:27 +0000
> From: a.l.swiffin at dundee.ac.uk
> To: uk-contest at contesting.com
> Subject: [UK-CONTEST] ARS 144mhz
> 
> 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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