[UK-CONTEST] 144MHz UKAC Contest

[David Ferrington, M0XDF]

I don't have an amp either, so running 50W, I believe quite a few do, so you should be able to, but I only heard one Gm from down here in IO91PK, and didn't get a chance to work him.
What antenna are you using?
73 de M0XDF (a.k.a G6BRA)
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On 3 Feb 2011, at 12:56, Stewart GM4AFF wrote:

> I thought I'd give it a whirl, but my amp is broken (8874...) so I was just
> running 100w. This appears to be not enough to even raise a QRZ with most
> callers, so I only managed to work about 10 stations - one who was >600km
> away.
> However, my point is that 100w is adequate power for inter-UK working from a
> good site with a 17ele yagi, and is not getting heard my so many CQ-ers, who
> were reasonably loud with me. I called MANY people who I could hear, to no
> avail. Yet, back in the early 70's I was able to work loads just running 10w
> from a Liner 2 to a Parabeam.
> So what's changed?? It can't all be computer noise.