[UK-CONTEST] BERU - G4FKA

[g4fka at aol.com]

More tales of wet string.
 
 
Any thoughts of a competitive entry were well and truly  scuppered after only 
75 minutes when an S9+ hash descended on 20m and  stayed there all day. Made 
the band practically useless with me although the  noise reduction on the 756 
ProIII helped to winkle out a few. The  noise has gone today - most 
frustrating! I guess it must have been very  localised.
 
So with any chance of a decent score gone, 15m quiet and nothing to work on  
10m (although I did hear a few Team UK members calling) it was then a  matter 
of seeing what was on the low bands.
 
40m was my band of the weekend and helped to make up for the  disappointment 
with afternoon/evening propagation to VK, ZL, VU, 9M6, 9V,  ZS, VQ9 and 5X.
 
Made 141 QSOs (my best to date) split 36/58/32/15/0 in around 20 hours  
(including breaks) but it should have been so much better. Raw score of  2865 is 
150 down on last year as I missed so many bread and butter Qs/mults  on 20m. 
Energy ran out at around 06:00 - too many long hours at work these last  few 
weeks!
 
Hope others had better experiences.
 
 
Geoff G4FKA