[UK-CONTEST] 144MHz UKAC last night

[John Lemay]

Keith

I've decided for this year to enter the "restricted" category. This should
enable me, as soon as the weather improves, to get several aerials on the
mast, one for each band.

I have to say that 50w to a modest beam does leave one feeling a bit lacking
in grunt. I lost "my" frequency a good number of times, and calling cq was
not especially productive. In particular, I failed to work any DL.

Tucnak logger does not deal with the M5 multiplier, but the robot will
happily re-score such entries. What I failed to notice was that my log was
also scoring 1pt per qso, instead of pts per km, so I had to re-run things
this morning.

I thought activity levels were good, but some well known calls were missing.
Have they voted with their feet against the M5 ?

How do so many people run 200 or 400w during tv hours from the suburban
jungle ? I'm sure if I did this there would be a knock or three on the door
pretty sharpish !

Regards

John G4ZTR


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Sent: 05 January 2011 09:31
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Subject: [UK-CONTEST] 144MHz UKAC last night

I wonder how people found the first 144MHz UKAC last night under the new
multiplier rules?

We had a much better evening than we expected, conditions seemed up a bit
and activity seemed high although it was quite a shock to be told that we
were someone's first QSO into JO01 square almost an hour in. 

We normally get an S4 noise level when beaming between 300 and 330 degrees
which was absent last night and so that helped. 

The claimed scores so far are showing a much closer gap between them than
there has been in the past. 

I know it's early with only one contest gone but has last night changed or
reinforced opinions on the M5 multiplier rule change?

73
Keith, G6NHU
Martello Tower Group, G0PKT
http://www.martellotowergroup.com
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