[UK-CONTEST] UK-Contest Digest, Vol 74, Issue 5

[Steve White]

At the risk of depressing certain parties, there wasn't a problem with 
propagation in East Devon. I ran a frequency for the full 90 minutes and 
made 179 QSOs (1 dupe to come off that). Some others in the South West also 
made well over 100. I suspect the problem was high angle absorbtion in 
certain parts of the country.

Steve, G3ZVW


> Message: 11
> Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 12:22:31 -0000
> From: "G3VDB \(Jim\)" <jimevans at g3vdb.com>
> Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] propagation SSB CC
> To: "'g3pdh'" <g3pdh at btopenworld.com>, <uk-contest at contesting.com>
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> Hmm - it wasn't just me then - ran the whole evening with the attenuator 
> in
> just in case there was any overload with UJE just a mile or two away and
> began to wonder if the ATT was working on TX as well as RX ! Struggled 
> with
> nearly every one of 21 and spend many minutes calling GW4BVE who was 
> getting
> no other replies and did not even say "QRZ"
>
> Depressing.
>
> Jim G3VDB
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com
> [mailto:uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of g3pdh
> Sent: 03 February 2009 09:51
> To: uk-contest at contesting.com
> Subject: [UK-CONTEST] propagation SSB CC
>
>
> 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
>
>