[UK-CONTEST] 144mhz UKAC 3/11

[Andy Swiffin]

>>> On 04/11/2009 at 17:35, in message <95A13F3C7052496C91E1301CD8FE9822 at OCH1>,
"Darrell G0HVQ" <g0hvq at talktalk.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hmmm.....conditions North-South at the start of the evening were the best 
> I've ever heard in a 2m Act event (I've done them most months over the past 
> 2.5 years), signals from GM into IO81 were much bigger than usual and you 
> were a genuine S9 with me Andy, over a 500km path.
> 


Thanks for the nice report, I'm not sure whether to be pleased or dismayed!   It's nice to put a big signal down your way, particularly with the power throttled back a bit (actually full tilt gives very very few dbs more :-(  but I was rather hoping that things would normally be better than that!!    GM4PPT's soapbox says he thought it wasn't so good either.
Certainly gb3vhf was quite weak, not like the other Sunday when it was romping in (and I couldn't get a qso at all!!).

Maybe I've got a pipe to IO81, my second most succesful square after io83 4/31 qsos.  And nothing at all in the box defined by London to Boston and Norwich to Northampton.  (neither for that matter anything west of a line drawn from Leeds to Berwick).   Oh well, at least I worked IO86 this time :-)

That map that you now get of your QSOs is pretty smart, I didn't see an announcement of that being introduced (or has it been there all the time!!!).  Well done on that, it's really cool!

73
Andy
gm8oeg



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