[UK-CONTEST] propagation SSB CC

[Stewart Rolfe]

Interesting comments Malcolm. I had a thoroughly miserable time last night and was quite clearly not getting out from here. To confuse things GW0GEI over on the island of Anglesey about 15 miles away did pretty well and scored about 120 I think mainly running; OK he has a superior antenna for 80 but didn't think mine was *that* inferior with our respective scores for AFS cw being 245/234 last month. Could the snow have been doing something subtle..?? - nearby snow covered power lines etc? - swr seemed pretty normal.

The first half was mush/eu qrm and I struggled to hear most uk stations. Strangely it improved significantly later on and the Gs came right up and the noise/eu qrm dropped - but I still had problems raising anyone. A measly 34 here from 100 watts to a 102 foot doublet. Should have watched the telly....

Frustrated of Bangor,

Stewart Rolfe, GW0ETF 


--- On Tue, 3/2/09, g3pdh <g3pdh at btopenworld.com> wrote:

> From: g3pdh <g3pdh at btopenworld.com>
> Subject: [UK-CONTEST] propagation SSB CC
> To: uk-contest at contesting.com
> Date: Tuesday, 3 February, 2009, 9:50 AM
> Does anyone have an explanation of last nights 80m CC
> conditions. From this
> area (Norwich) the band was just mushy noise with a few
> signals, mainly
> continental and a few G's. More noticeably the few
> G's heard could hardly
> hear me, as if one way paths existed, and despite this some
> were still
> exchanging relatively high numbers. It would be interesting
> to see some
> analysis of this phenomena as to whether it was
> propagation, antennae etc.
> All stations in our group did poorly despite running decent
> rigs and full
> size dipoles. Such conditions hardly seem to reflect text
> book theory.
> 
> Malcolm G3PDH
> 
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