[UK-CONTEST] Fwd: Re: 2M AC Tuesday 1st March

[David Ferrington, M0XDF]

Well, in my case, it's that I can afford to spend a few hours at my contest site once a month, but can't afford to take 24Hrs or even 12 out of my weekend . Apart from needing sleep, I have a family to consider too, a house and garden to maintain and various other things, not to mention a job!
I'm sure I'm not the only one with these issues.
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73 de M0XDF

On 4 Mar 2011, at 12:05, mm0ccc at gmx.co.uk wrote:

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> ----- Forwarded message -----
> From: "mm0ccc at gmx.co.uk" <mm0ccc at gmx.co.uk>
> Date: Fri, Mar 4, 2011 11:55
> Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] 2M AC Tuesday 1st March
> To: "Roger Thawley" <roger.thawley at sky.com>
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> If only these folks would also come on for more of the 24hr contests, Roger. 
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> Have done the 2m trophy each year since 1995, usually from GM. It really is disheartening when we see people working similar numbers in UKAC to what we now expect to work in 24hrs.  Unless there's decent tropo cndx to DL/ON/PA/F, the incentive to assemble a competitive station /P is just not there, and year on year, our group comments that SSB Field Day would be the better option for the following year.
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> 73
> John MM0CCC
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> Sent from my HTC
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> ----- Reply message -----
> From: "Roger Thawley" <roger.thawley at sky.com>
> Date: Fri, Mar 4, 2011 11:29
> Subject: [UK-CONTEST] 2M AC Tuesday 1st March
> To: "'UK-Contest'" <uk-contest at contesting.com>
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> Well, what can I say..arrived at the contest site to find that I'd left a
> critical piece of the antenna at home, so I abandoned the contest team on
> top of the hill and hared home to collect it.. unfortunately this left us
> starting 39 minutes late, on what turned out to be a great evening - in the
> end, 101 contacts and 17 mults. My best guess is that the lost 45 mins would
> have turned up a couple more mults and 30 or more contacts.
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> Bother!
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> On a positive note, it's pleasing to see that the RSGB V/UHF activity
> contest series continues to draw crowds of folks out on a Tuesday evening.