[UK-CONTEST] Re :- Oceana Contest.

[Phil VK4BAA]

Hello Brian,

Well, I'll probably be earning 'brownie points' this weekend so any entry in the CW leg of the Oceania contest will not be of the same scale as the SSB leg at VK4KW.

I've got a few G's in the log, but hoardes of DLs, ONs, SPs etc, from working on 80m and 15m. We also worked them on 20m and 40m of course, but I thought that 15 and 80 might've been a bit marginal. There were some excellent signals coming out of EU and the signal from VK4KW must've been resonable to raise the EU interest I suppose....

10m only had more 'local' traffic, with UA0s, JAs and VKs of course. We didn't go onto 160m as I couldn't hear any traffic at all on there. Maybe I missed out though, as i couldn't hear much on 80 until I put a call out. A lesson learned maybe...!

A few sunsopts can make all the difference of course, but NA were out in force and the 100w with a dipole brigade were very much in evidence. I know this, because a fair number of them told me during the QSO! So, spots or not, they were having a crack at it and got into the log.

Have fun and 73,

Phil
VK4BAA / VK4KW / G0HSS

---- brian coyne <g4odv at yahoo.co.uk> wrote: 
> Hi Phil,
> 
> As you will have noted from other recent threads on here contest activity f=
> rom Uk has been  rather sparse and when I look at submitted logs for variou=
> s contests run over the past few months that impression is confirmed.
> 
> Due of course in the main to the low sunspot activity, add a few years and =
> you will get an entirely different picture but that does not really explain=
> the imbalance when compared with the DL's, PA's etc so your question might=
> obtain more response if posted on the CQ Contest Reflector.
> 
> I am not in the UK but still a long way from VK/ZL. I was looking around hf
> for you guys and made around 25 contacts but most were YB's and only 1 ZL.
> I daresay if I get on this weekend and band cndx comparable I will make more contacts as cw is a far easier mode for low power stns and I am sure that a lot of the 'G' boys will be turning out Sunday am for the low band long path, particularly 40m, however hf is a very tough call at present times to Oceana for all but the well equipped stations.
> 
> Good luck this weekend.
> 
> 73  Brian  5B4AIZ
> 
> 
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