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

[Roger Thawley]

Unfortunately, my contest 'partner in crime' is recovering from surgery, so
this months 6M AC wasn't ever likely to have been on the cards anyway.
Looking at the torrents of rain, which were lashing down at home around 2230
last night, I can only say that I was glad not to be out there trying to
strip a station down - dry suits would have been a necessity!
I had a brief listen from home, using a 70cm/2M/6M tri-band antenna I have
at about 25' and could only hear a couple of local stations and they were
fairly weak....I'm beginning to suspect a problem with that antenna...so I
also gave up.
Hoping for better conditions next month!

Roger G0BSU



-----Original Message-----
From: uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com
[mailto:uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Steve White
Sent: 25 November 2009 10:54
To: uk-contest at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] 50MHz UKAC 24th Nov 2009

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
> To: UK Contesting <uk-contest at contesting.com>
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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.
>
> 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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