[UK-CONTEST] propagation SSB CC

[Peter Connors, F5VNB]

 From SW France (JN04BK) the contest segments were almost wall to wall G 
stations with very slow QSB. The 1.8kHz filter in the K3 helped to 
winkle out a few of the quieter stations but I couldn't raise a reply 
from one or two of the stronger G stations, so something odd was going 
on. Despite that, 42 qsos.

Aerial was 50m of speaker wire from the local diy, pushed between the 
roof tiles and the remaining 18m split into a 36m doublet 6m agl with a 
common mode choke at the K3.
And sorry to GW0GEI for the dupe - a 2in stub of pencil to a paper log 
doesn't guarantee the highest accuracy!

Pete Connors F5VNB

g3pdh wrote:
> 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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