[UK-CONTEST] Ropoco G3LDI

[Roger Cooke]

Hi to all and to Andy, GM8OEG

  Quite a slow contest, but brain testing, which makes it more interesting than the average 5nn 001 test. I made 53 and was struggling. I did hear a few others but they were S&P like me so no good to me!  

   However, I did like the report from Andy, GM8OEG.   I hate to tell you Andy, but although I got the "postcode" correct from you and despite the five attempts at sending it, you managed to get my call wrong! I don't think I sent G3LZI!  :-)  I suppose we both lose out there. Proof below as an extract from my Cabrillo.

   I did have quite a smile when you sent the dreaded 413XDI though. I wonder where the post would go if we sent a letter to 413XDI!!!!

   Enjoyable contest even so, pity there were not a few more active


QSO:  3526 CW 2009-04-05 0844 G3LDI         599 GL513RA     G3LIK         599 SY226BE     
QSO:  3526 CW 2009-04-05 0848 G3LDI         599 SY226BE     GM8OEG        599 413XDI      
QSO:  3526 CW 2009-04-05 0859 G3LDI         599 413XDI      M0OXO         599 AB118YB     
END-OF-LOG:

Regards from Roger, G3LDI
Swardeston, Norfolk.



--- On Mon, 6/4/09, Andy Swiffin <a.l.swiffin at dundee..ac.uk> wrote:

> From: Andy Swiffin <a.l.swiffin at dundee.ac.uk>
> Subject: [UK-CONTEST] Ropoco
> To: uk-contest at contesting.com
> Date: Monday, 6 April, 2009, 10:33 AM
> That was fun, I love this contest
> :-)
> 
> Not having touched a morse key in 18 months nor listened to
> any CW I finally decided that I was going to try something
> different with my leisure time than pushing a wheelbarrow
> full of rubble around.    (I'd forgotten that it
> was actually possible to have non working leisure, and
> actually felt quite guilty :-)
> 
> 
> So, I dug out the old TS830 out of its "temporary" (sic)
> cupboard and  stuck up the inverted L on its fibre pole
> and managed to find the old up and down key (no paddles, no
> computers, just an old notepad for the
> log).   I worked on the principle that the
> rest of you would value the additional activity more than
> you would hate the quality of the operating, I suspect it
> was a close run thing....   I had a real
> problem sending 6s, it was a bit of lottery how many dots
> would actually come out, although usually there was a
> surplus.....  Not having used the key for so long was a
> bit like deciding to run in a marathon with a training
> regime of eating curry and drinking beer.....
> 
> So, how did I do, I was never expecting to win, just have a
> good time and 31 qsos were what I made.  I definitely
> could have done more, I heard more than that although a lot
> of quite weak signals around with loads of
> QSB.   Thanks to all those who repeated the
> postcode more than once - I seldom got it all in the first
> go...   And thanks to those who slowed down
> for me :-)  
> 
> It was really quite funny as I was mostly doing S&P and
> must have been moving up the band at the same speed as
> others as I kept getting the same postcodes
> back!   I had   tr332c X2
> (looks bust to me),  dn11qt X2, sy226be X2 and the
> winner from Orpington: br54rn X4, still, it made the CW
> easier to copy!
> 
> I was having a good time until g4fal passed me the poison
> chalice at 0832Z,   was that really a
> postcode of 413XDI? ,  I'm sure that I copied what was
> coming in, but horror of what to do with it numbed my brain
> a bit.   I almost went QRT as there was no
> way I could send that to someone, they'd never believe
> me.  Apologies to g3lzi who was the eventual victim (16
> minutes later!),  I was so stressed about having to
> send that as a postcode that my hand froze up and refused to
> do it, it took me about 5 goes, I'd be interested to know if
> I managed to pass it on in its full horror.
> 
> My final QSO was m0nqn who persevered through quite vicious
> QSB,  but,  the incoming postcode seemed to be the
> same as the outgoing one: sy22 6be, is that possible?
> 
> A good time was had by all and to make up for it I spent
> the afternoon pushing around a wheelbarrow full of
> rubble....  See you in the next one!
> 
> 73
> Andy
> gm8oeg
> 
> 
> 
> 
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