[UK-CONTEST] ARRL 10M Contest....

[PETER CLEALL]

I had planned to give this contest a reasonable amount of air time and try
out a G0KYA half wave vertical.

Then on monday I got PLASTERED -  the hospital variety -  leg in plaster
toes to knee.  So deploying the vertical did not happen.

Yesterday used my 30m longwire at 7m height  to work SSB -  3 Ukraine,
5b4aif and a YO3  all between  0933hrs and 1006 hrs. Only had 2 get aways.

Tried couple of times in afternoon nothing heard.


This morning only heard one Ukrainian and 5z4aif. both worked yesterday.


Interestingly I listened to 5z4aif for half an hour of solid signal, he
worked 20 to 30 stations all around Europe but none of them came above the
noise floor at this location.


As getting to the shack on crutches is like climbing the north face of the
Eiger. I will have one more go around 1600 hrs.

regards
peter G8AFN






On 12 December 2010 13:32, Dave Sergeant <dave at davesergeant.com> wrote:

> On 12 Dec 2010 at 12:53, Keith Maton wrote:
>
> > I've been listening on and off over the weekend and I've not heard a
> > single station yet!  I was hoping to give my short callsign at least one
> > airing as I believe they're valid for this one.
> >
>
> Yesterday morning there were some strong Ukrainian stations. In the
> afternoon at 1445z I worked 3 USA in NJ and VA and the band was quite
> lively with Ws for a few minutes. Fifteen minutes later it was stone
> dead again. Not heard anything yet today apart from Ken G0ORH down the
> road. Strange band indeed with some of you claiming to have worked
> hundreds of stations in all continents...
>
> 73 Dave G3YMC
> QRP 5W K2 and longwire.
>
> http://www.davesergeant.com
>
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