[UK-CONTEST] December 432MHz UKAC

[Ron Price]

Thanks for trying Bob.
I just can't make the journey down into JO01 or IO91 from the home station 
on 432MHz.
Tony GW8ASD is my equivalent to your G3YDY, having a much more sophisticated 
set up than my simple station!
The only chance I have of bettering him is when I go /P!

73
Ron GW4EVX

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rob Harrison" <robharrison at g8hgn.freeserve.co.uk>
To: "Ray James" <gm4cxm at yahoo.co.uk>; "UK Contesting" 
<uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 8:05 PM
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] December 432MHz UKAC


> Ray,
> What a shame, you'd be only the 3rd GM from here in 24 years operation 
> from
> this location on 432. GM4LBV IO86 in 08/1999 & MM0CPS/p IO84 in 07/2008. 
> I'm
> on the other side of the hill to Paul, G3YDY, and I know he works you
> regularly, as we have our own little battle each month. He usually wins 
> BTW,
> and he's in restricted. Maybe next year if propogation favours, at least 
> I'm
> making the trip, really need a masthead on this band.
>
> Condx poor all round, Weak and watery signals from stations I usually work
> ok. Not much from EU. However high pressure is moving in, so maybe a 
> tropo'
> opening pre-Christmas again.
>
> Apologies to GW4EVX who I didn't hear at all, and I called that way in the
> last hour, netting GW8ASD.
>
> 73
>
> Bob G8HGN
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Ray James" <gm4cxm at yahoo.co.uk>
> To: "UK Contesting" <uk-contest at contesting.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 10:51 AM
> Subject: [UK-CONTEST] December 432MHz UKAC
>
>
>>
>> Came on to give some points/mult away and at the same time evaluate a
>> newly installed masthead LNA for 70cm.
>>
>> Spent the first half hour trawling the band for anyone beaming to 
>> Scotland
>> and this produced contacts with G3YDY in Chelmsford, G4CLA in 
>> Lutterworth,
>> M0AFJ in Milton Keynes, G3SPJ in South London, M0GHZ in Chippenham and
>> G8OHM in Birmingham.
>>
>> 12 of my 16 contacts came in the first hour so it doesn't take a genius 
>> to
>> realise the last hour and a half was like pulling teeth.
>> G3SPJ was still audible at the end so conditions were still available for
>> some long range contacts if folk had beamed my way.
>> G3XDY in Ipswich was a nice catch near the end of the contest.
>> No OZ's would take the bate via KST to try a schedule and one attempt 
>> into
>> PA produced nothing either way.
>> G8HGN was the only gotaway, turned his beam just as I called.
>> IO83 produced 6 contacts, mainly from CQ calls on both SSB and CW, but 
>> the
>> north eastern and midlands activity was almost non-existent.
>>
>> The new LNA certainly helped, far better than using the in-built pre-amp
>> in my SSPA to winkle out some of the weaker signals.
>>
>> 73 Ray GM4CXM IO75tw, 10K NW Glasgow.
>> 120w 2x23el @ 70'.
>>
>>
>>
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