[UK-CONTEST] Death to the cluster!

[Regwoolley at aol.com]

In a message dated 12/12/2009 00:46:09 GMT Standard Time,  
gm4cxm at yahoo.co.uk writes:

> Ray  I do beam north in the 2m Ac However your call is not often in my   
log!

Dear, dear Reg, your memory is getting worse than mine.
I told  you on Skype I had removed one of the 9el's because I'd burnt out 
the balun  which meant I had to run the remaining 9el with the amplifier 
backed off so I  wouldn't be on 2m much but 70cm and 23cm was still okay. The 
Skype chat was  just prior to Wyboston because remember you mentioned you'd 
just had a nice  meeting in a country pub with Pete G4CLA and spoke about 
proposing a change to  the start finish time of UKAC and I said losing the last 
half hour would be a  killer up here because after NAC finishes the none 
Nordic EU's dissapear as  well, so G's start beaming other than south east and 
all of a sudden we start  hearing activity.
Just to update you. I've got hold of an antenna analyser  (great toy) and 
will make a high power balun shortly. First attempt failed.  Resonated at 
144.280 but 1.6:1 swr.
The Versatower was over for 3 weeks so  missed December 2m UKAC and AFS.
Initially down 'cos we got a very bad  storm warning (correct)and then I 
kept it over to install the new 70cm LNA on  the 2x23el, works great!
I'll be around on Tuesday on 23cm UKAC and hope to  catch you then.
If we don't speak before then have a great  Christmas.

73 Ray.






Ray I was think more about the last 3 years and not just the past few  
months!
REg G8VHI