[UK-CONTEST] Gonna write me a letter

Stewart Rolfe gw0etf at btinternet.com
Mon Jul 25 01:48:26 PDT 2011


Had some downtime last night, often do on a Sunday evening. So I went to the higher bit of 30m for a bit of ragchewing, often do on a Sunday evening. 

But when I tuned across the band, rather than my usual quiet frequency I found to my horror a cacophony of massive signals covering a huge swath of 30m, the majority clearly emanating from huge over-powered linears from eastern Europe; even came across a new (special event?) callsign from Kazakhstan, UPUP but I couldn't find it in qrz.com.

So I checked my favourite bit of 20m - same thing! In disgust I had to switch off and go and watch 'Country File'. It simply isn't fair all these chaps filling the bands like this. If it carries on like this I shall sell my radio and use Skype to talk to my chums instead. I shall write to Radcom and demand the RSGB do something about it...

Stewart, GW0ETF


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