[UK-CONTEST] SSB CC

[Steve Jones]

Someone gave me 44 report - so I logged that - after falling off my chair 
:-)

Steve
GW0GEI

----- Original Message ----- 
From: " Ken Eastty" <ken.g3lvp at btinternet.com>
To: <uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 8:50 PM
Subject: [UK-CONTEST] SSB CC


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>> 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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> I only came on for a short S&P session between 2038 & 21 to give a few
> points away and worked 21 during that time, I didn't even bother to put 
> the
> linear on. The only station that I was unable to work was Ray 'HRH who was
> unable to hear my 100W, perhaps there's some truth in the one way
> propagation theory.
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> Is there really more activity in the SE? There used to be more amateurs
> there than in the rest of the country but I think that's no longer the 
> case.
> When it comes to London there now appears to be a much lower number of
> amateurs per head of population then in the rest of the country.
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> It would be interesting to plot where the activity is, perhaps we should
> stop sending meaningless 5&9(9) reports for every QSO in contests and send
> instead the locator square, I know that it would slow things up a bit but 
> at
> least the exchange would have more value than the present exchange of
> 'reports'. (Yes I know it's all in QRZ.com if I could be bothered)
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> In the heat of the moment during SSB AFS I gave my locator to one station,
> he sounded a bit surprised! (apologies if he read this)
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> 73...
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> Ken
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> G3LVP
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