[UK-CONTEST] 80m CC G4BRA

[Dave Sergeant]

Our annual Night On the Air club challenge event from our club meeting. 
If you worked G4BRA then you worked me. Reasonably successful but for 
most of the time I was sitting in the room alone while the other 
members played on 20m. 83 QSOs in the 10W section (running 8W for a 
change...), good inter-G propagation though a distinct lack of GMs and 
I also seemed to work every PA3 in the callbook... Station was a 90ft 
centre fed inverted doublet fed with 300 ohm ribbon and my usual K2, 
battery powered (saves bringing a power supply...).

The first few QSOs were a bit problematic. I had wrongly positioned the 
laptop and paddle, with the paddle to the left of the laptop making 
right hand use a bit hard (quickly rearranged). And I had a hiccup once 
calling a station as G3YM... whoops, then having to convince the chap I 
really was G4BRA. I don't think I did this again, if any of you worked 
G3YMC it was another booboo or a pirate. G4BRA is not a familiar 
callsign in this event so some time was spent correcting mis-copies.

Not sure if it has generated enough interest to get more club members 
on in next year's CC - but it was a good evening and we had a couple of 
new M6 members along so maybe they will get interested in CW.

73 Dave G3YMC

http://www.davesergeant.com