[UK-CONTEST] 50MHz UKAC 24th Nov 2009

[Steve White]

I gave up after 25 minutes, which is not like me at all. The weather here 
near the south coast was so wild that I never dared raise the beam to over 
25ft, but with the antenna so low I get increased levels of local noise 
because I am beaming at some houses, rather than over them. To make matters 
worse, with the antenna low I get RF feedback and breakthrough into the PC's 
keyboard when I beam towards the shack.

Steve, G3ZVW

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> Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:22:36 +0000
> From: Keith Maton <g6nhu at me.com>
> Subject: [UK-CONTEST] 50MHz UKAC 24th Nov 2009
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> I've just got home from the club and have put our entry in for this 
> evenings 50MHz UKAC contest.  What an evening that was, conditions were 
> diabolical and we had S5 of noise covering the entire band no matter which 
> way we beamed this evening.
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> It was a real struggle to work the 18 stations we did, I'm sure there were 
> many who called us that we couldn't hear due to the noise and we even 
> considered packing up early and going home.
>
> No danger of back-of-the-beam itis from us in JO01 tonight, we only worked 
> one station on the back of the beam and that was Frank, PE1EWR!
>
> Our little group have provisionally decided that for next year we'll 
> probably can the Jan/Feb and Nov/Dec 6m UKACs and just operate when 
> there's more chance of activity.
>
> 73
> Keith, G6NHU
> Martello Tower Group - G0PKT
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