[UK-CONTEST] Re 144MHz Contesting etc

[Darrell G0HVQ]

I work 3-4 GMs most activity contests, and GI, and occasionally GD, with a 
modest 9 ele and 200W from IO81, and the occasional ON/PA if condx are 
slightly up.

The question is - why no activity from the north-east? No one from IO93 in 
recent contests, despite some large population areas up there.

As others have said, there isn't a lot of choice with 2m SSB radios these 
days and without the old 'Class B' license people have moved to other bands 
(I did the same when I got my 'A', but came back 20 years later!). I guess 
2m in some locations is just too much hassle - the only reason I came back 
was, after a succession of homes in bad locations (next to hills to the east 
etc.) I finally got a QTH with a reasonbale 360 degree take-off e.g. one of 
my first QSOs back on 2m from here was with an old 5 ele strapped to a bird 
feeder and 10w.....and the other station was an SM (not one-off either, 
another SM several months later and a HB9)! Couldn't have dreamed of that at 
any of my old QTHs over the past 20 years...its all about location on VHF.

73
Darrell G0HVQ



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jiri Culak" <Jiri.Culak at lwss.co.uk>
To: "Adrian Rees" <rees.a at btconnect.com>; "Tim Hague" <m0afj at dsl.pipex.com>; 
<uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 8:06 AM
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] Re 144MHz Contesting etc


>
> Gordon GPZ,
>
> What a signal on Tuesday! You are one of the loudest GMs for sure. I
> never tried contest on 2m and up from GM and it probably is a challenge.
> Just keep it that way, I am sure most of the time people just calling to
> east not bothering, I tried on Tues leaving main system at 310-350 deg
> for 35 minutes and worked 3-4 GMs. Not a big number but they are there
> :)
>