[UK-CONTEST] G3TBK 80m CC SSB

[Dave Sergeant]

On 5 Feb 2008 at 10:11, Dave Cree wrote:

> Diabolical conditions as usual at this time of the year for this
> event. Noise here about S7 at best, peaking S9 at times, and very few
> short skip signals. Did not even hear anyone else in my club!

Well since I encouraged a couple of our club members to go on and 
have a go I thought I would at least tune around and see all the 
activity. Or in fact lack of it. Interesting conditions to say the 
least, s9 noise which I understand was not local and plenty of wide 
open space. Most of the activity here in Bracknell seemed to be in 
the lower band segment. GM3POI was doing great guns but the only 
others heard were local (best DX Reading...). Not sure I would have 
done very well on QRP CW in those conditions, please scrap that 
suggestion!!

I used the exercise as an opportunity to realign the SSB filters in 
my K2 - I don't have the SSB adaptor fitted (so couldn't transmit!) 
and have really not bothered too much with the filter settings. The 
LSB ones were way out and for some reason I had set the widest filter 
to 1.8kHz so everybody sounded pretty ropey. A quick tweak with 
Spectrogram improved it no end - but didn't bring in any other 
signals!!

Not sure if Richard G4ZFE monitors this reflector, he lives around 
400 metres from me but was only just about s9 on the meter (M0XDF 
half a mile away was end stop) and sounded somewhat distorted 
(possible over enthusiastic speech processing). Were you using the K3 
Richard and what sort of antenna??

73 Dave G3YMC

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