[UK-CONTEST] March 144 432MHz

[David Warr]

Hi,

I thought I would put my 21ele Tonna up on Saturday afternoon and give 70cm
a go for a change. I have a 20ft push up mast on the back of the garage
which with a rotator on the top I can just about manage to push up.

With 20W I had 22 QSO's over a 4 hour period (got called into work) sat in a
rather cold garage, my best DX being LX/PE1ITR/P at 654km. Conditions were
flat, PI7CIS was a nice S1 and GB3ANG was in and out of the noise.

To view a map of my Contest QSOs follow this link:-
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://www.rsgbcc.org/vhf/kml_files/2011/spknp
zEvsvEqDyGHxRVzLxobmlJWkhk

I've left the antenna up so see some of you on Tuesday...

An added bonus is thanks to the sharpness of the beam I now know from which
direction the arcing thermostat (?) that plagues my life is coming from....
if anyone has had a similar problem and resolved it perhaps they could drop
me a line.

73 Dave