[UK-CONTEST] Christmas VHF Cumulative contests start today

[Adrian Rees (MW1LCR)]

Well, I thought I'd have a go, but will only be on this afternoon.

About 5pm last night, I worked a number of stations in Norfolk, at a
distance of 285Km on 144MHz, FM, with a vertical and 20 watts.I work
this North Wales - Norfolk path on a regular basis. I 'll have my 22
element 70cm yagi in the air this afternoon, so I'll have a go on 6,2
and 70cm from up here in a very frosty North Wales.

73

Adrian MW1LCR 

-----Original Message-----
From: uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com
[mailto:uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Les Allwood
Sent: 27 December 2008 09:48
To: UK Contest
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] Christmas VHF Cumulative contests start today


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=xmasfu
> n
>
> 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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