[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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