[UK-CONTEST] Christmas VHF Cumulative contests start today

[Darrell G0HVQ]

I managed to get on for 45 mins yesterday, condx/activity seemed quite 
good.....worked GI (IO74), EI (IO62) and heard GM and PA, but ran out of 
time.

Will hopefully be on this afternoon, if my plan to get the rest of the 
family round to mother-in-law's works :-)

Pity the contest wasn't 2 days ago, the HB9 2m beacon was in and out here 
all day and there were plenty of F/ON/PA/DL stations around.

All with a simple setup - 100W and 9 ele yagi rotated 'armstrong' method.

Les - get hold of an old 2m yagi off Junsksale or Lynchline, stick it up on 
a pole and try it out, you might be surprised....I once worked SM with 10w 
and an old 5 ele tie-wrapped to a bird feeder ;-)

73
Darrell


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Les Allwood" <g3vqo at mapleleaf.plus.com>
To: "UK Contest" <uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2008 9:47 AM
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=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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