[UK-CONTEST] SSB Contest practice
Garo (Private)
garo at molozian.co.uk
Tue Mar 15 15:10:54 PDT 2011
Hello all,
I wonder if someone can point me to a website/link which somehow provides SSB contest training in a manner similar to Morse Runner on CW ?
I found some contest audio with call lists but they are all W/K's and ideally need something more "mixed" and realistic, say CQWW or WPX ?
Many thanks, 73,
Garo
G0PZA
PS. I am putting this message on another reflector as well.
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1. (Fwd) Commonwealth ZL2BR Open-24 HP (Frank Hunt)
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3. BERU : VP2MXF... (Nigel G3TXF)
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Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 18:57:44 +1300
From: "Frank Hunt" <zl2br at ihug.co.nz>
Subject: [UK-CONTEST] (Fwd) Commonwealth ZL2BR Open-24 HP
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FWIW, may be of interest.
73
Frank
ZL2BR
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RSGB Commonwealth Contest, CW
Call: ZL2BR
Operator(s): ZL2BR
Station: ZL2BR
Class: Open-24 HP
QTH: New Plymouth NZ
Operating Time (hrs): 22
Summary:
Band QSOs
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80: 26
40: 96
20: 91
15: 41
10: 27
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Total: 281 Total Score = 4,605
Club:
Comments:
A bit of a fizzler! Contact totals and score well down on 2010.
Both polar paths to the UK sucked the life out of most G signals,
especially on 40m.
As expected ZL activity was very poor, only 4 of us were sort of
serious, at least another 7 ZLs made an appearance of some sort. VK
activity appeared to be well down on on 2010 as well by a big margin.
But what about those VEs. They were every where and lots of them. For
the first time in thirty years worked more VEs than Gs including
three
5-banders.
This little comparison table sums things up.
G VE VK ZL
qso qso calls qso calls qso calls
===================================================
2010 148 91 52 95 39 38 11
2011 78 110 58 48 22 13 7
73
Frank
ZL2BR
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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 13:29:34 +0000
From: Andy Summers <g4kno.mail at gmail.com>
Subject: [UK-CONTEST] Commonwealth G4KNO Restricted-24 LP
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Call: G4KNO
Operator(s): G4KNO
Station: G4KNO
Class: Restricted-24 LP
QTH: Cambridge
Operating Time (hrs): 21
Summary:
Band QSOs
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80: 24
40: 21
20: 41
15: 16
10: 2
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Total: 104
Comments:
Bearing in mind I wouldn't consider myself a CW op, I have grown to love
this
contest. Great for small pistol UK stations, offering the ability to work DX
that would otherwise be a struggle through the pile-ups. Additionally, this
is
far from a 'rate' contest, particularly in the restricted section, which
suits
my slower CW. In 2009 I just sent a checklog. In 2010 I sent in a 12-hour
entry, having realised it wouldn?t be daft to do so, and resolved to make a
more serious effort in 2011.
The antenna was a single ground mounted vertical based on a 40ft Spiderbeam
pole. It?s an 80/40m trapped wire (homebrew trap) with the remainder on 80m
tied-off to a nearby fence. I had hoped to do something a bit more fancy for
the HF bands, but in the end just added a fan of ?-wave elements using
feeder
spreaders. This was on a separate connector, which meant I couldn?t really
switch between 40/20m during the grey-line. The neighbours might have seen
me
swapping the connectors at 8am in my dressing-gown! I put a fair amount of
effort into improving the radial system this spring specifically with this
contest in mind. Even then I have no radials to the south and not many to
the
east, but to the western sector (where the lawn is) there?s the equivalent
of
a 42 radial system, albeit with most of them <50ft long. It definitely
worked
well to the west on 80m in particular, easily beating the pile-ups of casual
ops on the Sunday morning into the Caribbean. Having said that, 80/40m was a
bit dissapointing, with not too many VE's and 40m seemed strangely noisy.
I decided to sleep from 3-6am when things seemed to have slowed up quite a
bit,
but I think this was a bad decision because 20m didn't open to VK/ZL as I'd
hoped and I think I would have been better off trying to get some more VE's
in
the log on 80/40m, possibly CQ-ing. As it was, this effort was entirely S&P.
Several got-aways, the most notable being 9V1YC on 15m on the Sunday morning
who was over S9 with me and yet CQ'd in my face.
I have to say, there were some fantastic ears out there, particularly the
Caribbean travellers. I must have been pretty weak with them. Many thanks to
all for pulling my signal out.
Plans for next year include finding the local noise source on 14.000 (not my
house) that must have cost me some QSO's, a horizontal alternative for the
HF
bands, and more radials!
73 de Andy, G4KNO.
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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 14:23:31 -0000
From: "Nigel G3TXF" <nigel at G3TXF.com>
Subject: [UK-CONTEST] BERU : VP2MXF...
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Hello UK Contesters,
You'll find a few snaps from the VP2MXF BERU operation
here....
http://www.g3txf.com/dxtrip/VP2MXF/VP2M.html
73 - Nigel G3TXF
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