[UK-CONTEST] ARRL 10m G0HVQ

[Colin Wilson]

Well guys
I made it right through to midnight! The band was still pulling out 
surprises, I continued to work into South America with regular callers and 
one from VK4CT but very very low rates of less than 20 Q's ph in the past 
2/3 hours. Top hour was 1600 -1700 yesterday beaming into US/VE with 145 Q's 
ph.


Band  Mode   QSO's  DX  States etc
28        CW     653      51     46
28        SSB     1066    53     61
Total  Both     1719    104   107
Single op, High Power, Mixed mode

FT2000,SPE Expert amp, 3 el yagi @45ft.

Lots of flutter around making CW difficult at times. Could hear my own dits 
coming back at me a fair bit of the time, very annoying! Cant say I heard 
too many stations out of G land and very little from Africa or the WI. Had 
the beam to the west most of the time so not much from the far east either. 
I did manage a few JA's, VK and ZL but not much else from that area. W and 
VE support this contest well as do the South Americans. Was there a contest 
going on else where too? Some W stations kept giving me numbers as well as 
their state! UK clubs need to get ready for next year this is a great 
contest for new comers and old timers alike!
Anyway great fun and looking forward to 2012 and doing it again!

Best 73

Colin CT7ACG/G3VCQ


-----Original Message----- 
From: Darren G0TSM
Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2011 11:07 PM
To: uk-contest at contesting.com
Cc: uk-contest at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] ARRL 10m G0HVQ

Well done Darrell and thanks for the QSO!

Here's my part time effort.

Band  Mode  QSOs   DX  States etc
     28  CW     275       37    30
     28  USB    620       65   47
  Total  Both   895      102   77
Score: 427,278
Single Op, High Power, Mixed Mode

FTDX5000MP + VL1000 + 5 ele Yagi @45ft and 4 ele Yagi @25ft.

I tried something different this time as I'm trying to develop the
station. Ideally I would like to Tx into both antennas and receive
separately into the 5K's separate receivers, but that project is
ongoing. This time I fudged some switching/matching which allowed 100W
to be sent to the 4 ele Yagi and the rest to the 5 ele. This worked
really well. This morning I had the 5 ele to the NE and the 4 ele to the
SW. SV's, TA's V5 CT3 etc were S9 and switching off the 'sub antenna'
dropped them dramatically. More beneficial was this afternoon, with the
5 ele to W/VE and the 'sub antenna' to AF or SA with mults calling in.
The noise floor raises a little but signals on the 5ele barely drop.I
did lots of checks on the 5ele, 4ele or both and the difference now is
around 2 s units in all directions between the antennas. Not much gain
really for an antenna twice the size and twice as high, and isn't really
noticeable on 90% of the callers. Where you hear the advantage is on the
really weak stations on scatter.

I did a lot of S&Ping and a fair bit of CQing. I found S&P wasnt very
productive for me this time. Prop wise I could hear my own longpath
'dits' for around three hours today with the peak QTFs being 290/110deg.
But I didnt hear a single JA or ZL. I worked a couple of PYs and 3 LUs
this morning all true longpath. I could detect their direct path
'pre-echo' very weakly with the delayed LP signal from the NE very loud.
I had to QRT at 1620z today but came back at 1815z and the band was
still busy. I grabbed a cuppa sat down at 1824z and the only station
left was a W5 in TX. In 4 minutes the band had gone out..

73 Darren G0TSM




On 11/12/2011 21:39, Darrell G0HVQ wrote:
>   Band  Mode  QSOs    Pts  Cty
>      28  CW     497    1988  102
>      28  USB    213     426   75
>   Total  Both   710    2414  177
> Score: 427,278
>
> Single Op, High Power, Mixed Mode


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