[UK-CONTEST] propagation SSB CC

[Steve Jones]

No problem Peter - easily done

As TXF and Stewart ETF have commented its strange how stations relatively 
close can experience quite different results with similar power and antenna 
set up. May Stewart's increased closeness to the Snowdonia mountains 
combined with angle of radiation (more low and long than high and short 
compared to AFS?)

I used the 80m inverted V again at about 50ft and in same orientation as in 
afs (seems better than in previous years so I am not moving it now I have 
found the sweet spot!).

I ran the whole contest and appart from the first four minutes was kept 
fairly busy. I switched in the second rx with wider filter and full size 
160m dipole inverted V on second tower in bottom (wetter field) for some 
diversity reception when I was struggling with qrm or qsb on weaker 
signals - tiring to listen to but it did help me pick up the missing letters 
or reports so it worked. Had a few lower power M3 stations call in and 
pulled them out no problem so I guess I worked all who called appart from 
one G and one F station who I lost due to heavy splatter.

Enjoyed the sport, after a **** day at work :-)

73

Steve GW0GEI


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Connors, F5VNB" <f5vnb at orange.fr>
To: <uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 2:37 PM
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] propagation SSB CC


>
> 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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