[UK-CONTEST] November 23cm UK Activity Contest - Report
Ray James
gm4cxm at yahoo.co.uk
Wed Nov 17 18:08:43 PST 2010
The November session of the UK Activity Contest on 23cm produced an excellent activity turnout despite the flat conditions experienced in Scotland that those reporting from further south did not suffer similar.
Tuesday was one of those evenings when you really had to grind out results for a positive outcome. The only disappointment was knowing several lower ERP stations were calling and this was one night those whispers in the noise did not turn into fully readable signals.
As usual, aircraft reflection produced the longest distant contacts.
The aircraft position websites identified a dearth of flights at optimum heights from the contest start and it was almost an hour before one favourable Ryanair fight enabled Kjeld OZ1FF and myself to work each other.
PA0EHG will be a familiar call to many within troposcatter range of Holland and now I find is another (rare?) operator who has realised the advantage of using aircraft in order to make a contact. It took a couple of false alarms (aircraft changing course!) before we enjoyed the benefit of a Schipol to Memphis fight crossing our mid-point and resounding signals being heard both ways.
UK flights were predominantly down the west side of England and this produced more difficult contacts to the likes of John's G4EAT and G3XDY but much easier reception of stations in IO82, 81 ans 91. G4NBS in JO02 was a very strong exception.
GM0USI IO75 7
GM7GDE IO75 22
GM0UHC IO85 52
GM4PPT IO75 56
GM8OTI/P IO85 86
G8CYW IO94 195
G4KUX IO94 214
G8KBH IO83 247
G4HGI IO83 294
G8GXP IO93 310
GW8ASD IO83 332
G4CBW IO83 347
G4AGE IO93 361
G8JVM IO82 387
G4PBP IO82 399
G8OHM IO92 425
G4NBS JO02 503
G4BRK IO91 517
M0GHZ IO81 521
G8CUL IO91 525
G3XDY JO02 565
G4EAT JO01 572
PA0EHG JO22 729
OZ1FF JO45 782
A QSO map can be seen at http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://www.rsgbcc.org/vhf/kml_files/2010/vbQ4BB2Jl0V8642MVjbNR0XL7IpCk2w
73 Ray GM4CXM
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