[UK-CONTEST] was.. VHF FD Spotting Abuse

[Paul_group]

gm4fam at tiscali.co.uk wrote:
> Maybe some of those self-spotters could have spent more time using a 
> keyer or even learning the code - yet again the large number of QSOs I 
> heard on 4m today were 2 x SSB but too marginal to attract attention 
> from this outpost.  
> I know some could have been worked on CW; 

Agreed, I was only active on 70cm this year and the two skills that were 
sadly missing in some groups were the key and a rotator !

how many times I struggled to exchange only to be told oh yeah.. your 
off the back of the beam....

I won't bother restricting myself to <100W for the sweeper category next 
year as its way too frustrating, it might work in jo01 etc but from here 
PA and DL were stronger than a lot of UK stns.... taking 20 mins to 
complete with someone at 150km isn't my idea of fun...


I don't know what happened to GM4ILS/P as he was a nice loud signal. an 
easy 57n when he called me but for some reason we missed.

G4ADV seemed to be going well and was a good sig toward end of the contest.

GM3PKV/P was an enjoyable qso which turned into a bit of a rag chew, 
such is 70cm contesting :-)

ODX about 1000km but in the main struggling with weak inter uk stuff.

No cq for fixed stns meant I never heard some of the regular VHF crowd, 
see you next time I hope.


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73 de Paul GW8IZR IO73TI
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