[UK-CONTEST] 50MHz Trophy

[John G3UUT]

Matt,

Interesting report, being further South and with a multiple antenna 
system you managed to keep up a better QSO rate than we managed. One 
comment;

 > We spent the next three hours operating CW, this was an interesting 
experience, netting us a steady
 > QSO rate but also a lot of dupes, presumably stations looking their 
first QSO to GJ on 50MHz CW.

The reason we had to work you again on phone on Sunday was that you were 
sending the report and serial numbers so fast - probably automatically, 
that we weren't confident we had copied it correctly and thought we 
ought to confirm it.  Being VHF operators migrating down to six, 20 wpm 
is about our limit Hi.

This year we decided to venture across the country and travel light with 
only one antenna system.  We completely missed the opening to W on 
Saturday, mainly because we were relying on the local cell site to 
connect us to the DX cluster and unfortunately we found it had lost its 
data capability and only having one antenna we didn't swing it around 
enough.  The opening on Sunday morning was good though, we worked about 
35 Ws from 1200 to 1240 UTC.

We also found quiet a high electrical noise level on the site which was 
surprising as it was quite remote.  We decided in the end it must have 
been coming from over head power distribution in the village we could 
see below us several miles away.  So apologies to those stations we knew 
that were calling us but we couldn't quite make out.

73 John G3UUT
GW4Z IO72
A1 contest group G4ZAP

On 30/06/2011 14:22, Matthew Jeffery wrote:
> It's a little after the event, but following the Bristol Contest Group's
> expedition to Jersey for the 50MHz Trophy contest, we've put some photos and
> a report at
>
> http://gj6yb.org
>
> Thanks to everyone that called us, it was a thoroughly exciting contest.
>
> 73 Matt
> M0MAT
>
> On 28 June 2011 09:07, Tim Hugill<tim04 at swandhams.com>  wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> After waiting more than a week, I'm a little surprised there's been no
>> comment on the 50MHz Trophy contest, which for some of us was a major event
>> of the contest calendar.
>>
>> Congratulations to the Bristol Group for such an impressive performance
>> compared the other UK stations.
>> It'll be interesting to see how you compare to the rest of Region1.
>> Well done guys.
>> (Can we compare logs some time ?)
>>
>> Out in the south-west of Wales, a rag-bag of old operators from
>> Pembrokesire
>> got together in a field and operated GW2OP/p.
>> We enjoyed it so much, we've decided to come back for VHF NFD this weekend.
>>
>> 73 de
>> Tim  G4FJK
>> _______________________________________________
>> UK-Contest mailing list
>> UK-Contest at contesting.com
>> http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/uk-contest
>>
> _______________________________________________
> UK-Contest mailing list
> UK-Contest at contesting.com
> http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/uk-contest
>