[UK-CONTEST] 50MHz Trophy

[Darrell G0HVQ]

...and you put out a bloomin good signal from Jersey, don't know what 
propagation mode it was was definately wasn't the usual 6m watery tropo that 
you usually get with sigs over 50 miles away, you were a solid signal here, 
more like an Es signal, but you were too close for that and no noticable 
short-skip (scatter?).

We'd done the UK 6m Group contest from our /P site a couple of weeks ago so 
I decided to do this one single op, and as it was my wedding anniversary I 
entered the 6 hour section.

Did two stints, Sat afternoon and Sun morning. Wasn't sure what time to kick 
off, but when TF/DL3GCS popped up I decided to go for it, given his rare-ish 
country and grid. A little worried, as I worked my best DX (UY1HY in KO60MA) 
on Sat evening just as the XYL was warming the car up to go to the 
restaurant, and the band was opening to the USA for some at the same 
time....thought I was going to miss out. Sun morning started a little slow 
but soon opened up in the same direction. Plenty of Es both sessions and I 
had almost as many QSOs on CW as I did on SSB, which brought in some useful 
multipliers. Didn't hear or work anything across the pond, but a modest 5 
ele yagi here not up particularly high. Missed out on loads of G 
multipliers, think all the beams were turned East as called quite a few in 
IO9x and JO0x who couldn't hear me.

All in all, good fun, and the Es was once again good this year. 92 QSOs and 
currently running 2nd in the 6S section, according to the Claimed Scores 
page. And nice to see many confirmations coming in via LoTW.

Would like to do the full event sometime with a serious effort, but our 
group has supported the UKSMG contest for almost 20 years, and it's hard 
enough to get us all together once a year, nevermind twice in one month.

73
Darrell G0HVQ



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matthew Jeffery" <matt.m0mat at gmail.com>
To: <uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2011 2:22 PM
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] 50MHz Trophy


> 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
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