[UK-CONTEST] 3rd Jan 80m CC [CW]

[Ian Burns]

Hi All,

I was probably one of the slower ones on last night, first time on CW 
since NFD and very rusty. First attempt at this one from home, previous 
attempts have been thwarted by QRM. With noise levels down at around S9 
it's was good as it's been for ages.

Listened around before the contest and decided not to bother with 
computer logging. However things seemed to improve once the contest got 
under way and I worked more than I expected to. Just S&P this time.

30Q's, K3 10W into inverted L. Cray Valley RS.

73
Ian
G0AFH.



On 04/01/2011 13:42, Jonathan G0DVJ wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I was also pleasantly surprised at how many slower replies I got to my 30wpm CQ calls last night... and I always tried to match their speed for the exchange.
> I didn't do hardly any S&P last night as it was busy most of the time so didn't get to the QRS corral either.
>
> Sorry for a few repeats .. I had a splitting headache most of yesterday and a few just didn't go in first time!
>
> Had a couple of occasions when someone started CQing without apparently asking QRL? or listening first but they went when it was clear that QRL.
>
> Much the same conditions here as Chris noted.
>
> 110 Qs - Horizontal 80m loop - FT2000 - Skookumlogger (OSX) - Club:  ECWARC
>
> 73&  HNY
>
> Jonathan G0DVJ
> --
>
>
> On 4 Jan 2011, at 13:14, Andy Summers wrote:
>
>> Hi Chris,
>>
>> Actually, I thought there was a real dearth of slower CW. As a fairly slow
>> op myself, I decided to spend the first hour CQ-ing near the QRS frequency -
>> at about 15wpm. Not much came back, although that first hour there was
>> little inter-G propagation from Cambridge.
>>
>> Most of the activity was much lower down the band, and I presume the faster
>> ops don't want to waste precious time working the slow ones. I had hoped
>> that I might solicit calls from other slow ops too scared to call the fast
>> ops. That didn't happen.
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 9:46 AM, Chris G3SVL<Chris at g3svl.com>  wrote:
>>
>>> Conditions seemed OK, some weak and watery sigs and heavy QSB so a
>>> few repeats needed.  Good to see some slower CW - hopefully they will
>>> stick with it and enjoy the mode.
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