[UK-CONTEST] Activity during VHF contests (& the rest of the time?)

[Ken Eastty]

I note Roger's comments with interest but they only tell part of the story,
what is really worrying is G4KPW's comment in 'claimed scores' that only 103
'G' stations were worked during the recent 2m Trophy contest (I assume that
this number included GM, GW, etc and the various flavours of all these
calls). Even taking into account the conditions and weather that's a very
small number especially when you consider how many of the ~ 60k UK amateurs
are apparently equipped with multi-band multi-mode transceivers these days.
Why are so few of the more recently licensed stations taking part even if
just to give points away and in particular why are there so few Foundation &
Novice calls heard (maybe the answer to that is that they're all on 80 or 40
m with their G5RV's).
No one has so far been able to explain the lack of activity from the big
cities, London, Brum & Manchester. There use to be plenty of stations active
from the London suburbs but this seems no longer to be the case, ~12 Million
inhabitants and no active amateurs on VHF, have they all taken to the hills?

73....

Ken

G3LVP/A1314 (it seems as if I got that wrong before)

Tuning high to low & the middle out, none of these sissy Dx Clusters &
Internet chat rooms.




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