[UK-CONTEST] CC CW G3TBK

[Dave Cree]

I arrived home from my J88DR trip just in time for the Club CW Contest.

The gales had caused some minor damage to my tower and one of the 
beams,  as well as snapping the fibreglass pole which extends the stub 
mast to support the 80/160m antennas. The 80m dipole was wrapped around 
various beam elements.
 I had to use the couple of hours of daylight left when I returned to 
lower the tower, remove the beams and crank it back up with an 80m 
dipole at 55 feet.

Conditions seemed very good for the first hour, when I worked 100, but 
then there was a very rapid deterioration, and I only managed another 19 
valid Q's in the last 30 minutes. Relatively close stations in Leicester 
and Grimsby, (G3ORY and G3RSD) were very weak when worked near the end.

I was half asleep on the keyboard so apologies for hitting the wrong "F" 
keys a couple of times - I hadn't got much kip on the flight home. I had 
been travelling for 16 hours due to poor flight connections, so the 
enforced antenna work was most unwelcome!

73 Dave