[UK-CONTEST] IARU HF and GB7HQ

[Mike Farmer]

What an interesting weekend (well 24 hours!).  I managed to get more QSOs and Mults than my previous best effort but fell well short on the points. What happened to the NA pile ups - even running 100w I can normally get a NA run going this year my best run was 14 (yes 14) Q's and only 1 was NA.
Did any one else experience this?

Got GB7HQ on all 6 bands but the difference in signal level had to be heard to be believed. I have WAV files of all 6 SSB QSOs -if any of the GB7HQ ops are interested I'll drop them a copy.  They are ok with the exception of the 10m one which I cannot hear!!!! For some unexplained reason all my WAV files were recorded at a very low level (something else to check out)

A suggestion for the organisers of GB7HQ.   Why not use G7HQ, GM7HQ, GW7HQ, GI7HQ, GU7HQ and GJ7HQ?  It would make locating HQ stations a bit easier on the HF bands (particulary 10m & 15m). Whilst struggling to peak the signals from GB7HQ I had a look at the RSGB web site to see if the GB7HQ QTHs were listed - found nothing so had a look at the HFCC web site presumably the policy on that web site is to cover UK contests only. So did I miss a link on a web site?


Mike
G3VAO