[UK-CONTEST] CQWW CW QRP 7MHz

[GM3YEH]

I've never been much of a QRP fan, but I decided to give it a go for the
2010 RSGB 80m sprint series and was astonished with the results.  This
encouraged me to think about a QRP effort for this year's CQWW CW.  I only
use wire antennas and can just get one up in my garden at a time so I
decided on something with a bit of gain for a single band 40m entry.  A half
square was decided on with main lobes towards the east and west. I got it up
and tested just before the snow started.  One of the most impressive things
I noticed over the weekend was the high proportion of Ws who managed to copy
my tiny wee 5W signal on the first call - lots of those guys have really
great ears.  A lot of time was spent on repeats and my callsign was
regularly mis-copied as GM3YES - which is a real pain in the neck after the
other guy gives his TU and I need to call him again with the correction.
 Although I probably wouldn't be patient enough to use QRP all the time, it
was a nice change - especially getting into VK!  I didn't work GM or GI.

Points     - 127,568
QSOs     -  721
Zones     -  21
Countries - 91

73 de Barry GM3YEH.