[UK-CONTEST] Problem with M5 muts count on the entry robot

[Malcolm Bryan]

Chris



Nice to work you last night from JO00 F land. You were only just above the
noise level when you called me here in London – I was running 100w against
your 25w which is why you were copying me rather better although it was fine
once I got the beam on you.



I was interested you only managed GD8EXI, I operate portable in some UKACs
from France from a car park on the ridge just north of my French QTH in
Tournehem (JO10AT). It is only105m asl but I usually manage to get GI4SNA
and am usually his best DX. Although lower, the site has a great takeoff
except to the West as the ground drops very rapidly to sea level. I
generally run 50w to a 4 element ZL at 4m AGL so not a large set-up. Last
year it had the advantage of being a multiplier you couldn’t activate from
the UK but sadly this year I wont have that advantage. It will be
interesting to see what a difference it makes to the score!!



The other station in JO00 was G3YNN and your F/ score should count as last
year F/G8CUL/P was credited to G8CUL



73

Malcolm

G8MCA / F1VNR


On 3 February 2011 18:24, Chris G4FZN
<ukcontest at mailbox01.freeserve.co.uk>wrote:

>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:uk-contest-
> > bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Pete Lindsay
> > Sent: 02 February 2011 22:10
> > To: UK Contest Reflector
> > Subject: [UK-CONTEST] Problem with M5 muts count on the entry robot
> >
> >
> > Some of you will have spotted that the UK squares total being reported
> > by the robot for last nights 2m UKAC is wrong for some of your logs.
> > If you worked a non UK station in JO00 and then worked a UK station in
> > the same square the count will be one out.
> >
> > Apologies for this, bad coding on my part :-(
> > All fixed now.
> >
> > The adjudication software does NOT have this problem, so all logs will
> > be correctly scored.
> >
> >
> > 73s
> >
> > Pete, G4CLA.
>
>
> It was me wot did it! Hope my appearance as F/G4FZN/P from JO00 didn't
> cause
> you to burn too much midnight oil amending the entry robot, Peter! If there
> was a UK station also in JO00, then I didn't hear him.
>
> I did remind a few stations that I wasn't a multiplier, however someone
> said
> that since I had a UK callsign (albeit in France), then I did count as a
> multiplier! I rather think not.
>
> Pauline, G8HQW and I were returning home from a business trip to Frankfurt,
> and due to be on the Calais-Dover car ferry first thing in the morning.
> What
> better way to await a ferry than a couple of hours on the 144MHz UKAC?
>
> Sadly, there wasn't time to get to the higher Boulogne location (which we
> used for VHF NFD), so we parked up car and caravan at the Aire des Deux
> Caps
> (150m asl) on the A16 southbound, and set up the station up there.
>
> It was foggy, wet and much (audio) QRM from the refrigeration units of the
> lorries parked up for the night. I was disappointed not to work further
> north - apart from GD8EXI who must have a very low noise location or
> receiver as I could only just copy Richard, and I was only running 25w. I
> also think I heard G4KUX in County Durham, but it wasn't his frequency and
> he got away.
>
> One question, will my points gained as F/G4FZN/P count toward the year end
> points with those earned operating from in the UK?
>
> 73,
>
> Chris,
> G4FZN
>
>
>
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