[UK-CONTEST] GI0RTN - IRTS 80m

[Dave Sergeant]

On 2 Jan 2008 at 23:07, Gerard Lynch wrote:

> Another New Year, another 80m IRTS 
> contest.  After losing both the contest and the 
> high QSO total last year by a whisker, I was 
> determined not to make the same mistake this 
> time.  To that end, I `gently persuaded´ GI3PDN 
> to let me run his amplifier.  We couldn´t get it 
> going on both CW and SSB without undue hassle, so 
> I decided to run it on SSB and assumed 100 Watts would be plenty on
> CW.
> 

Thanks for the report Gerry - and for the QSO.

I only really came on for 2008 band slots with GI and EI, which I 
achieved with a QSO with EI7GY. But I certainly noticed the CW part 
of the band was a bit quiet and you would not be aware there was a 
contest on apart from a few G stations calling CQ.... Don't operate 
SSB at all.....

Nobody though has mentioned the AGCW Happy New Year contest in the 
morning - http://www.agcw.org/?Contests:Happy_New_Year_Contest (can't 
find any English rules there...). The activity in that contest was 
amazing, especially on 40m which was chock a block at times. There 
seemed to be a RTTY contest on as well, judging by the spread below 
7030... Maybe it is a bit too early for some people over here......

73 Dave G3YMC

http://www.davesergeant.com