[UK-CONTEST] 21/28 MHz contest

[Darrell G0HVQ]

Can I add my support for the 21/28 contest? It's a fairly unique event and 
one I've enjoyed entering over a number of years. It'll be good again when 
the sun wakes up. The past couple for years have produced some quite 
interesting condx, with Es giving plenty of contacts in 2006 and 2007 (more 
so in 2006).

The condx are there on the higher bands - I've entered 10 HF contests this 
year with a simple setup (multiband vert & 100W) and had plenty of 15m QSOs 
in each of them (inc 9M2 on 15m RTTY last weekend), and some on 10m, 
including some QSOs with the Caribbean. It's just that you have to work at 
it a lot more, and in 21/28 don't have the option of QSY'ing down to 20m 
when it goes quiet.

Having said that, it's with a little smugness that I'll admit I missed the 
whole event yesterday - for some reason, I'd put it in the diary for next 
weekend and taken the aerial down for some maintenance.

And my perspective is from a VHF ops point of view, where hours and hours 
spent on 2m or 6m with just the odd QSO is not an unusual experience ;-)

Lets hope for some more sunpots next year.

73
Darrell