[UK-CONTEST] 80m CC LZ/G3LET

[Robin Thompson]

Just heard you calling me Peter , but couldn't get a qso through the QRM !
Paused a few times to get the callsign and immediately the freq was pounced
on ... grrrr 
Quite good conditions for a change and seemed to favour us guys in the West
Country. 135 Q's here .

73
Robin
G3TKF

> -----Original Message-----
> From: uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:uk-contest-
> bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Peter Hobbs
> Sent: 12 March 2009 16:07
> To: UK Contest reflector
> Subject: [UK-CONTEST] 80m CC LZ/G3LET
> 
> Hi
> 
> Thanks to the dozen or so who pulled me in last night, after 2 evenings
> experimentation with wire configurations.  Lack of ground was the main
problem,
> resolved finally by running another 66 ft of wire around the bedroom,
putting the K1
> slap in the middle of a dipole!  As the first time I'd listened out on 80m
from
> Southern EU, the strength of the JA's really took me by surprise - one
even came
> back with LZ?
> 
> Activity and signals seemed generally good - a few stood out, but those
that heard
> me were not always the strongest.  Called over 100 altogether (including
many of
> the QRPers, with good readable signals) but noise level during the event
itself must
> have been pretty horrific - it was much easier to catch a few guys just
before the
> start.  A few hardly seemed to be listening at all, with very short gaps
between
> CQs.  Sometimes you missed other EU callers apart from me.  I suspect in
some
> cases that auto-CQ mode was in use - a quite inexcusable practice!
> 
> Loc was KN13XR in Oryahovo, a ferry port to Romania across the Danube.
> 
> 73, Peter G3LET
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