[UK-CONTEST] IOTA from the mainland

[Pete Connors]

I puzzled over what strategy to use from this three point qth but a 
dinner in the village square on Saturday night made the 12h decision for me.

After studying contest reports from earlier years I couldn't see any 
advantage in running and went for multipliers S&P unassisted (and had to 
apologise to a Baltic island mult who wanted me to spot him). I beamed 
north much of the time to search out as many G stations on as many bands 
and islands as I could.

After a four hour stint at the start the dinner went on longer than 
expected but ideal for the second four hour session concentrating on low 
band mults. I suffered from F being still limited to the bottom 100kHz 
of 40m and needed more than one element on 40m. Eventually tuning around 
20m for any NA before catching some sleep I netted VK7XX long path 
around 3.00am local.

Found a lot of Mediterranean islands during the final four hour bash but 
the last hour was a bit slow until two new multipliers turned up within 
four minutes of the end. Upsum: had a whale of a time!

K3, Acom 1000, 3el+30/40 SteppIR , 80m inv V @ 22m.

12h SO SSB HP All-band Unassisted
315 qsos, 150 mults, 573,750 claimed

73, Pete F5VNB