[UK-CONTEST] Christmas VHF Cumulative contests start today

[Les Allwood]

Thanks for the reminder Pete. Normally I wouldn't go near the radio on 
Boxing Day but, with flu afflicting several members of the family, I found 
myself with time on my hands in the afternoon.

My VHF set-up is rather basic - an FT847 into a vertical designed for 6m, 
but it does seem to radiate on the other bands reasonably well, so I thought 
I would have some fun. An hour into the contest I had worked one station on 
6m and the same guy on 2m. There were a few other signals around from time 
to time, but so weak as to be unidentifiable.

I know that I will be told that I need a horizontally-polarised beam for 
real VHF work, but it all seems like Catch-22. You can't work much without 
doing major antenna work, but major antenna work is not justified by the 
levels of activity to be found.

Perhaps I'm in a particularly "quiet" area (Sussex) ...

Perhaps today will be better ...

73 de Les, G3VQO

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pete Lindsay" <psl at plcg.org>
To: "UK Contest Reflector" <uk-contest at contesting.com>; 
<vhf-contests at blacksheep.org>
Sent: Friday, December 26, 2008 10:42 AM
Subject: [UK-CONTEST] Christmas VHF Cumulative contests start today


> The VHF Christmas Cumulatives start today, the 26th Dec. They cover 6m, 
> 4m,
> 2m and 70cms.
>
> They take place between 1400 and 1600 each day for the next 4 days.
>
> Exchange is RST , Serial Number (starting at 001 on each band on each day)
> and a 6 character (e.g. IO92JL) locator
> Scoring is One Point per QSO multiplied by the number of Countries plus 
> QTH
> locator squares
>
> You can find a copy of the rules here
> http://www.vhfcc.org/cgi-bin/contest_rules.pl?year=2008&contest=xmasfun
>
> So, if you need a break from the shopping, TV and left over turkey, come 
> on
> and make a few QSO's
>
>
> 73's
>
> Pete, G4CLA.
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