[UK-CONTEST] ARS 144mhz

[Darrell G0HVQ]

ANG wasn't very strong with me in IO81 yesterday....in fact, it was absent 
most of the time, so condx north-south not particularly good (it's normally 
an S3 down here, I hear it most Act contest evenings and work 2-4 GMs, only 
1 worked yesterday).

I was swinging the beam, but mostly it was North East round to South East 
that yielded the most QSOs, 'RRA was my only QSO south, nothing worked to 
the West, and a few QSOs to the north (beyond the locality).

I thought activity was quite good, it was just everyone was beaming East, 
especially as there was some tropo enhancement that way.

It is a bit better in the Act contests as there is more incentive to beam 
around to get the mults.

73
Darrell G0HVQ


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andy Swiffin" <a.l.swiffin at dundee.ac.uk>
To: <uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 9:33 AM
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
> gm8oeg IO86mn
>
>
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