[UK-CONTEST] Original QRP contest

[Dave Sergeant]

Well I was on Clive..... mainly on 80m to grab a few 2010 slots. It is 
interesting that I was able to easily work quite a lot of the eastern 
Europeans on QRP while I call QRO chaps on 80m till I am blue in the 
face and get no response!

I didn't bother with the other contest running this weekend, the EUCW 
contest on 160m. I have entered that in the past to support GQRP, but 
got tired of getting the long exchange over with my QRP - '599 Dave 
GQRP 11029' is quite a mouthful....

73 Dave G3YMC

On 3 Jan 2010 at 19:28, Clive Whelan wrote:

> Disappointed not to have heard/worked any of you QRP freaks in this one 
>   :-(  In fact I worked a solitary UK station, being a GM4.
> 
> The ARRL RU caused some problems around the 40m QRP freq. of 7030, but
> nothing untoward. 20m around 14060 was surprisingly completely clear of
> RTTY.
> 
> Running SO2R I quickly discovered the unfortunate harmonic relationship
> between the 40 and 20m QRP frequencies, so that CQing around 7030 made
> S&Ping around 14060 a little tricky, although I could copy the better
> signals through my second harmonic.
> 
> I ran about 800mW on 14Mhz and a massive (!) 1w on 7 and 3.5. I just did
> a couple of hours on Saturday evening and then again on Sunday morning
> before the football.
> 
> QSO totals
> 
> 3.5Mhz   7
> 7Mhz      22
> 14Mhz    18
> 
> Total       47
> 
> Antennas were a plain vanilla Butternut on HF and a C3SS cranked down to
> 15ft and fixed due East on 14Mhz. There's nothing like QRP to tell you
> how your antennas are working, and 80m was really tough with a vertical
> only about 27ft high. Conversely it went very well indeed on 40m
> 
> Sadly nothing heard or worked outside Europe and the event seems to be
> studiously ignored on the other side of the pond, which is a shame,
> particularly as I know my 800mW gets into e.g VK6, so the USA is local
> really!
> 
> I am not myself a real QRP freak, but I have to say that I am puzzled by
> the inclusion of a 20w category which imo cannot be considered QRP.
> Personally I believe even 5w is QRO ;-) .
> 
> 
> Life's just toooooo short for QRO c'mon!
> 
> 73
> 
> 
> Clive
> GW3NJW

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