[UK-CONTEST] 2nd 1.8mhz G4RCG

[Peter Hobbs]

Don't forget 160 is now suffering the inverse of the recent 21/28 
experience, having enjoyed a ball for perhaps longer than we could have 
expected. There was very little actual interest from anywhere - just 
casual callers for most of the time.  Didn't see any positive impact 
from the rule change except to bump up a few DL scores a bit.  It's 
unlikely any DX stations realised they could call other EU, with the 
change made so late in the day.

There was an unexpected opening to the far mid-west in the last hour, 
which helped build 20 in the last hour, but that was about it - KV4FZ 
was ragchewing and not looking for contest calls.  Not a sniff of a JA.  
Absorption was high - even the UA9s were weak.

But the main interest for me was comparing reverse beacon spots after 
the event.  This sort of event is really helpful in checking out antenna 
polar plots - I seemed competitive enough into the states but rubbish 
anywhere to the east!

73, Peter G3LET



John Muzyka wrote:

>What a dissapointment this was, started great as always worked 100 in the first hour then it just slowly
>ground to a halt packed in at midnight an hour early as there were no new stations appearing after trawling
>the band for the last our and working very few. 
>Where were all the G stations? very few PA's and very few OE's in their 160m contest. 
>This was the worst 1.8Mhz I can remember.
>159 QSO's (2 Dupes)
>Ten Tec Orion II 
>400w 
>Inverted V at 60'
> 
>John G4RCG
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