[UK-CONTEST] Feb 144 UKAC

[Rob Harrison]

Hi Ray & Keith,

Yes maybe that was an unfortunate choice of label for Tuesday night. Next 
time I'll be more specific.

Activity was good, but in my case from G. Like Keith I too normally work at 
least 1 GM, 1 GD, and 1 GI, but this wasn't possible on Tuesday due to 
conditions and/or activity. I too did a lot more search and pounce, mainly 
searching and an occasional pounce looking for mults. Keith's findings are 
almost exactly as mine, with the same number of QSOs but he had 1 more 
mult'.  This is not that surprising as he was not a million miles away from 
me, running similar erp. However, Keith's claimed basic score is 2770 points 
(km) more than mine, his pts/qso 187, mine 139, all from the same number of 
contacts. Why is that?

GD8EXI was down on power I believe, possibly why I only heard him right at 
the end 3 by 2.

The thread was started to get other peoples views from their locations. It 
seems the majority are not aware of this reflector, or are only supporting 
their club and not interested in longer distance QSOs, or are running 
smaller stations, possibly. There are many more stations active (140+) there 
to be worked, but I can't find them. I'm trying to find out why that is and 
improve my score.

73

Bob G8HGN






----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ray James" <gm4cxm at yahoo.co.uk>
To: <uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2010 11:57 AM
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] Feb 144 UKAC


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> --- On Thu, 4/2/10, Keith Maton <g6nhu at me.com> wrote:
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>> UK activity seemed about normal but we didn't pick up any GMs or GWs this 
>> time.
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>> Better?
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> Yes Keith, much better!
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> I don't have a problem if individual operators report increased activity 
> in England but generalisations that this is a UK wide phenomenon are best 
> left to those more experienced in writing such sweeping statements, the 
> CC.
> Provincial support has never been worse so in reality the 2m UKAC has 
> become a mass activity session of stations in parts of England and in the 
> main having lots of local and medium distance contacts interspersed with 
> the occasional longer distance one. This is confirmed when noting the 
> current claimed score page and observing half (43) of the entrants have a 
> points per qso average of less than 100Km, 14 of them less than 50Km.
> Of the 148 stations who entered the January 2m UKAC, 144 were located in 
> England. From the current claim number of 88, 86 are G.
> So much for "increased UK activity". England, yes, UK definitely not.
>
> 73 Ray GM4CXM
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