[UK-CONTEST] 144MHz MMC

[Paul_group]

Very quick summary from here, conditions were pretty flat from here, 
plenty pings and bursts to tempt me into believing that if things would 
improve there would be dx to be had but little transpired in way of 
tropo for me. Only managed to be on for maybe 4 hours but was also able 
to listen on and off.

North / South  inter UK tropo was a little better than East / West.

Clive VVX and Stewart AFF thumping into GW, significantly louder than 
any of the SE stns, well done guys.

Worked a few DL's and PA's ODX 899km and a rather dubious 1023Km. worked 
the dozen or so UK stns that I could hear calling CQ.

Noticeably absent were a couple of regulars from the SW in IO70/71/80

A few new calls heard on the band and a couple of rather clicky signals 
but none close enough to be strong enough to cause trouble here.

There was a portable stn who couldn't seem to make his mind up which 
square he was in which gave me a smile, its so much easier to send your 
home square isn't it. Anyway I "guessed" based on what was sent to me 
and what I though was sent to the previous qso, judging by a later 
cluster spot and google earth I guessed wrong :-)

The only dx I worked needed resort to high power and relied on a mix of 
weak tropo and mainly MS so I won't be able to place an entry but 
worthwhile anyway.

The important thing is - people were on,  which is good.


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73 de Paul GW8IZR IO73TI
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