[UK-CONTEST] Cray Valley RS G3RCV/P

[Dave Lawley]

This was not intended to be a full-on serious entry in SSB Field Day, 
and we had some problems with the tower a few days before the contest, 
the same one that was bent by Farmer Giles mid-way through last year's 
event. However, it became clear a few hours into the contest that we 
were doing pretty well, at least on QSO numbers. That's when I started 
regretting not having organised a cluster connection, and the lack of 
mults may have cost us dearly.

We gave a chance to a couple of the less experienced club members to 
make some QSOs, always accompanied by one of the more seasoned 
operators, and they were also able to spend time hunting for mults on 
the second RX. Both tents were put up in the intervals between rain 
showers, and we had heavy rain on and off right through to Sunday 
morning. On the up-side, it's handy operating from a field right next to 
a pub, though we cut it a bit fine at the start only leaving the bar at 
ten minutes to two, with the DVK still to be set up!

QSO rates took a dive overnight and rates overall were much slower on 
Sunday but we were pleased with the final tally which edged past 1500, 
before dups.

We also put on M8C in the 2m Trophy, but conditions were not good and 
activity was low.

Here's the summary:
80   282   30
40   300   31
20   831   63
15    72   16
10     9    4
     ----  ---
     1494  144  =  759,456

FT1000MP + Acom 1000
FT900 + Butternut for spotting
TET HB33SP up 60ft
40m delta loop
80m inverted vee
Win-Test networked on two laptops

Operators   G0VJG M0DXR M0MYC G4BUO G7GLW M3XNL 2E0LAG
Ops (2m)  G3SPJ G4JED 2E0LAG G0VJG
Help from  G1BUO G0KPZ M0KSJ G8ITB

Dave G4BUO