[UK-CONTEST] 70cms AC 8th Feb '11

[Robert Chipperfield]

A good evening for us at G3PYE/P as well. After a decidedly "meh" 
performance by myself (at home as M0VFC) in the 70cm AFS on Sunday, last 
night was a very welcome change.

The puddles at our /P site had mostly dried out, but there remained one 
particularly muddy area - which, naturally, the coax managed to drag its 
way through along almost its entire length. I remain confused by how the 
PSU (and laptop, speaker mounted 6' up the van wall, and clock) got 
similarly coated.

We spent a little while beaming towards Europe to try and pick up some 
good distance QSOs, and DG1KJG duly obliged for a little over 500km, but 
sadly we missed DF9IC.

A pretty reasonable number of mults came easily to the north, including 
IO94 - and is it me, or is IO93 getting much more popular than it used 
to be? Thanks to all who operated from there! However, the south coast 
was lacking: no JO00, IO90, IO80 or IO70, I think. GM4JR and GM0USI 
filled in IO85 and IO75, but we missed a few of the other GM's that I 
think were around.

Dom, M0BLF joined us in Flossie for his first serious 70cm contest, and 
was I think pleasantly surprised by the number of contacts that can be 
made on the band - thanks to him for helping out at short notice!

All in all, good fun!

73,
Rob, M0VFC @ G3PYE/P

On 09/02/2011 10:14, Roger Thawley wrote:
> Interesting conditions during last nights 70cms AC. As is our norm, we, and
> not the royal 'we', started beaming north to pick off the many, many local
> stations in IO83 and, in parallel, work any GMs who wondered by. By ten to
> nine (having started at ten past eight) we'd managed to maintain over one
> contact per minute, not bad for a 70cms contest, at which point things
> became much slower. JO01 came along eventually and a very strong contact was
> made with JO02, however, in general, contacts with stations south of
> Birmingham were well down on usual both in terms of numbers and signal
> strengths. Comparatively, GM produced a modest smorgasbord of contacts.
> GI6ATZ was some way down on usual as well. M0GHZ was the last contact of the
> evening, producing an additional multiplier. Sadly we missed G4KUX, in IO94,
> who called us thinking we were calling cq, while trying to work M0GHZ, that
> contact would have added another valuable multiplier - shame he didn't
> stumble across us while we were beaming north for an extended period earlier
> in the event..such is the way of things!
>
>
>
> Looking forward to warmer, drier weather and longer days; this winter stuff
> is wearing a bit thin!
>
>
>
> Roger, G0BSU
>
> (M0GVG/P)
>
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