[UK-CONTEST] March 144 432MHz

[Stewart GM4AFF]

Well, I must have been inside that sausage. I couldn't believe how good
conditions were on 2m when I listened late on Saturday afternoon. OL3Y was a
huge signal, along with other OK, DL and ON stations. I was running 70 watts
which wasn't enough to draw attention when CQing. Really wish I'd had the
time and the equipment to do a serious entry. I had to spend the whole
weekend rebuilding my main tower and 20m yagi (rather than rag-chewing with
my mates) and meanwhile I noticed that 15 and 10m were actually open to the
US so the ARRL contest must have been a blast. What a weekend!

73
Stewart
GM4AFF


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com]On Behalf Of John Lemay
Sent: 07 March 2011 08:08
To: Regwoolley at aol.com; g4rqi at blueyonder.co.uk;
uk-contest at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] March 144 432MHz


Reg

As you were qrv for a limited amount of time, you may not have had the
opportunity to look much at the cluster or the Hepburn maps. The archived
map for Saturday morning is probably the most instructive and appropriate to
the Saturday portion of the contest, and it shows a long "sausage" of
enhanced propagation from northern G and southern GM across to Denmark and
northern Germany. It's pretty accurate although it doesn't extend into OK.
This sausage moved south during the day, but never reached the south of
England, which was blessed with barely a modest enhancement to propagation.

In essence, there was a clear north-south divide during much of the contest.

Makes a change from the usual east coast effect that has the northerners
grumbling about how hard life is for them.

John G4ZTR (G0VHF/P)


-----Original Message-----
From: uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com
[mailto:uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Regwoolley at aol.com
Sent: 06 March 2011 22:37
To: g4rqi at blueyonder.co.uk; uk-contest at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] March 144 432MHz

Are you sure you were on the same band as I was? I managed JN59 and a few
other DL's over near the OK boarder! Only on for a couple of hours due to
QRL in  the morning. GM0HTT on Orkney was rock crushing also on 70cms!

De Reg G8VHI


In a message dated 06/03/2011 21:43:21 GMT Standard Time,
g4rqi at blueyonder.co.uk writes:

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




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