[UK-CONTEST] 80m CC CW Tonight - any reports?

[David Honey]

At 06:41 05/01/2010, Dave Sergeant wrote:
>Some people seemed to have good conditions, but it wasn't the case down
>here in leafy Berkshire. For the first hour there was virtually no
>inter-G propagation with all stations other than locals and GM barely
>audible above the noise. So it seemed to be a 'work all GM' contest.
>But at 2100 the UK started to come through and were the usual 599 at
>the end. The last 15 minutes were the busiest for me!

I heard and worked you Dave - weak but almost Q5 copy in between some 
fish fone on frequency.
Here in NE Hants, conditions were fair. Worked 84 in total, but as 
others have said, short skip was very poor. I worked a number of 
fellow RADARC members but signals seemed a little weak and watery 
from them. GMs, PAs, DLs, LYs all coming in very strongly and seemed 
to work a higher percentage of them than normal. I thought activity 
was quieter than normal. I'm sure that there were some stations 
answering my calls that I just could not hear through the band noise.

David M0DHO