[UK-CONTEST] 50MHz UKAC: Who did we miss?

[Roger Thawley]

Alex,

            For some reason team M0GVG/P frequently misses you and it’s not
for a want of beaming towards GM. I guess that you’re just buried under the
general mêlée of stations in our home square (IO83) and, unless you stumble
across us, never the two shall meet! As Eddie mentions, below, IO83 is a
pretty busy patch and finding a perch to operate from can prove challenging
in some contests.

Having played around with different equipment over the past few years, it’s
an education to experience how much better a radio with a decent front-end
deals with strong local signals, than one with a run of the mill front-end
does (doesn’t).

Anyway, that IO86 multiplier is always welcome!   We’ll keep looking for
you!

 

Roger, G0BSU (M0GVG/P)

 

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From: uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com
[mailto:uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Alex GM3ZBE
Sent: 26 March 2011 06:28
To: uk-contest at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] 50MHz UKAC: Who did we miss?

 

I notice this "deaf" station business quite a lot. I am talking about
sigs which are genuine S7 to S9 but do not respond when I call and they
just carry on CQ'ing.  I am running legal limit on 6M, so it's not lack
of power at this end?
Alex GM3ZBE

On 25/03/2011 19:06, Eddie G0EHV wrote:
> Hello,
> I was active in this session /P for the first time this year.
>
> I notice that some stations are always difficult to call and some always
> hear me first time.
> I suspect that the apparent "deaf" ones are probably subject to local
noise
> and/or local QRM, it must be difficult in "QRM alley" (aka IO83) to pick
out
> the weaker ones!
> Hopefully I'm not being called very often and not responding.
>
> Being in a remote noise free area (IO84) I hear some strange things, for
> example there were two of the well placed stations both working same
> frequency at the same time and not a million miles apart from each other!
I
> worked one and turned the beam to work the other. Strange thing was that
> both of them were doing well with a string of QSO's oblivious to each
other.
>
> As far as a squares analysis goes, I'd be interested in how many calls
were
> logged per square, not neccessarily the call signs.
>
> Regards,
> Eddie
> Usually G0EHV/P
>
>
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73 Alex, GM3ZBE ~~~ Kingdom of Fife ~~~ IO86lf ~~~
Member of:
De Montfort University ARS, GMDX Group, CDXC, RSGB
Founder member Kingdom Amateur Radio Society (KARS)
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