[UK-CONTEST] RGSB Station GB7HQ

[Steve Reed]

GB7HQ award hunters (or those who just want to help out by working GB7HQ on
all band/modes) can find working the 10m stations a challenge if they are
any distance away.  Needless to say we will be listening carefully for UK
stations and will work all that we can, but inter-G signals can be very weak
in comparison to local noise or to much stronger (and higher scoring)
Europeans, so it may be worth employing some strategy to get our attention.
Some suggestions:

1.  If the band is open strongly to Europe its less likely we are going to
hear weaker signals from G.  If you have a beam, try beaming in the
direction of the strongest European signals rather than the direct path and
see if you can work us via Es backscatter.

2.  Most G contacts will be "groundwave" - actually beyond a few tens of
kilometres the propagation mode will be troposcatter.  On 28 MHz the best
times of day for this mode are often around dusk or dawn.  These can be
quiet times too, so weaker signals will both stronger and have less
competition.

3.  Generally we are not busy at night and will be looking for anyone to
work.  Two years ago we had sporadic E all through the night but even then
there were very few stations to work.  10m at night may be
counter-intuitive, but it's a good time if you want a QSO with us. (It'll
help keep me awake too...)

GB7HQ 10m SSB station will be in Suffolk, 10m CW in Yorkshire.  At times 10m
may also be active from near Inverness.  Station locations are in the link
Dave 'BUO posted.

In all probability, none of this will be new to this reflector's audience:
apologies (grandmothers and eggs and all that) but please try and work us
anyway!

Steve G0AEV

 

-----Original Message-----
From: uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com
[mailto:uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Dave Lawley
Sent: 07 July 2009 20:13
To: UK Contest Reflector
Subject: [UK-CONTEST] RGSB Station GB7HQ

GB7HQ will again be competing on behalf of RSGB in the Headquarters 
section of the IARU contest this weekend.

GB7HQ will operate from nine different locations around the UK which 
will all be connected on the Internet and sharing log details using 
G3WGV's Starlog software, so when you hear us on one band/mode, you can 
call and find out the working frequencies on the other bands.

Once again John G3LZQ is running the award programme, there are awards 
for working GB7HQ on a minimum of three, six, nine or all twelve 
band/mode slots.

The contest runs for 24 hours from 1200z on Saturday 11th July on the 
six contest bands 160-10m phone and CW. Exchange is RS(T) and ITU zone - 
the UK is in zone 27. HQ stations send the initials of the national 
society instead of zone number.

Please come on and work lots of stations in the contest, and make sure 
to work GB7HQ on all twelve band/mode slots if you can. Also, make sure 
to send your log entry to  IARUHF at iaru.org  - the more logs they get, 
the better the quality of log checking.

More details of GB7HQ can be found at  www.gb7hq.com  and webmaster 
G3TXF will be updating the site with pictures of the operation as they 
come in.

I hope to work many of you in the contest - my station will mainly be 
used for 15m SSB.

Dave G4BUO
Coordinator, GB7HQ


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