[UK-CONTEST] VHF-NFD Fixed Stations
Andy Swiffin
a.l.swiffin at dundee.ac.uk
Fri Jul 10 09:01:26 PDT 2009
>>> On 10/07/2009 at 16:24, in message <00d301ca0172$809ec9f0$81dc5dd0$@com>, "Andy
GD0TEP" <andy at gd0tep.com> wrote:
>
> Myself, I found it interesting to work a few of the stations on the air
> during the weekend, chatted (typed) to some friends on one of the KST pages,
> bashed some aluminum for an RF deck, then worked a few more on the radio.
> But..... I didn't need a contest log sheet to get me on the air...
>
Yes, my day would have been pretty much like yours (with maybe some less interesting activities!) but the Fixed sweepers section totally changed what I did.
Instead, I came on the radio at 1400 and _stayed_ there till 2000, had some food (quickly) went back on for a bit. Next morning on for another hour and a half until I absolutely absolutely had to leave or else I would be late for my part time job. (I cut it fine though).
See the difference? If I'd not done it intending to enter I would have just been cherry picking the furthest I could hear and when the Es came - that would have been it. Who's bothered about struggling to work IO92 when you've just had the whole of Iberia!
So as far as the portables I worked are concerned the sweepers section did exactly what Pete CLA had intended!
73
Andy
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