[UK-CONTEST] 80M CC G3BJ

[g3wvg at btinternet.com]

As well as antenna height and type, location in the UK seems to play a huge
part in these monthly evening contests.  Even 30 miles one way or the other
seems to make a difference from month to month.  ..eg From here in Surrey
I've always done best in April.  
Conditions this month were uncharacteristically good for all inter-uk qsos.
There were a few extraordinarily big signals stations on the band. The
Scottish stations, however, were not as loud as might normally be expected
in January. Which is tough on them since this should be their best
propagation!

I used a dipole mostly at 70 ft with one leg sloping down to 30ft, (will fix
for AFS!) and an old FT1000MP running 100W. Ended up with 136 QSOs of which
about 25 were S+P. Good for January but a long way behind the leaders.

73 Ian G3WVG 


-----Original Message-----
From: uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com
[mailto:uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Dave Lawley
Sent: 05 January 2009 23:08
To: UK Contest Reflector
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] 80M CC G3BJ

Don Beattie wrote:
> A last minute decision to spend some time in the contest this evening.
> 
> 110 QSOs, but I think the antenna may have been too high - the tower is
fully up at the moment, and so the dipole at 80ft or so. There were some
much higher scores than mine so something isn't right. For the next one,
I'll drop it to about 45 ft and see what difference that makes. 
> 

Interesting, my dipole was at about 45ft and I felt it was too low - 
certainly for the early part of the contest. Lots of time CQing with no 
replies. Ended with 121 Qs, which I would have settled for in a CW 
contest in January, but there are plenty of stations way ahead of that.

A good warmup for AFS!

Don't forget for club members who aren't into computer logging, QSOs can 
be keyed into the web-based log entry system at 
http://www.vhfcc.org/cgi-bin/hfcover.pl

Dave G4BUO
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