[UK-CONTEST] IOTA 2011 (GM3F)

[geoff plucknett]

That's because some of us only got home at 2100 last night and only unpacked
the car this morning.

IOTA for an expedition is a week-long odyssey!

Geoff G4FKA o.b.o GJ6YB

On 3 August 2011 13:18, Stewart GM4AFF <stewart at gm4aff.net> wrote:

> It's strange that there aren't more contest reports on here for the premier
> RSGB contest of the year. (Or is it?)
> I only returned from my 5X1SF mini-expedition late on Friday night (without
> my luggage) so I couldn't handle my usual favourite 24 hrs SSB section. I
> decided on 12 hrs Mixed mode. These 12 hour sections are great - strategy
> is
> far more important than I realised. In fact, although I ran a little, I
> would say it was a mistake, and I should have spent the whole contest S &
> P.
> I spent too long on 40m on the Sat evening and should have gone to 80m
> earlier - that left me with only 1 hour on 80m which was not enough, and I
> lost a lot of mults. Being located in GM it is very difficult to catch all
> those nice GM mults, even on 80m. Also, in a single mode 24 hour section
> SO2R is a huge advantage, but in 12 hours mixed mode it is totally
> unneccessary - you seldom run, so you have no time to work the 2nd radio.
> And an amp is probably unneccesary too, so the 12 hour low power and QRP
> sections are something which more people could consider (as Gordon and
> Bernie pointed out). For me it was an interesting learning experience, but
> a
> thoroughly enjoyable one
>
>  Band  CW Qs  CW Mults  Ph Qs  Ph Mults
> ----------------------------------------
>   80:   22       16      20       10
>   40:   84       24      72       28
>   20:  130       37     116       43
>   15:   30       20      32       20
>   10:   12        8      12        8
> ----------------------------------------
> Total:  278      105     252      106
>
> Total Score = 950,766
>
> Used a K3 and an FT1000mp, an Alpha 91 and Alpha 76, four monobanders, 80m
> vertical and beverages and Win-Test.
>
> This is the worst contest for bad operating technique. I don't know why,
> but
> these island expeditions with ops who are more into IOTA than contesting
> just assume everyone knows their callsign. (And strangely, most people
> calling them do.) Even when there is no pile-up they complete a QSO by
> saying "QRZ". Failing that they'll finish by saying "73's" and then the
> frequency sits quiet for about 20 seconds before they then decide to call
> CQ. And as for the people calling with two letters only. If I didn't lose
> out, I think I ought to log them as two letter calls too - that'll teach
> them!
>
> 73
> Stewart
> GM4AFF / GM3F
>
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