[UK-CONTEST] RSGB 2nd 1.8Mc/s Sports Radio event

[Chris G3SJJ]

Aah, I had remembered the JR but didn't store the rest. My K3 was coping with the nearby stuff. Interestingly it was almost dead on his sunrise

73 Chris G3SJJ



On 24/11/2011 00:14, Brian Gale wrote:
> Hi Chris,
> Just for the record, that JR1 was JR5JAQ.  He was a good signal here also, but I had to QRZ a couple of times initially to pull him through strong 
> adjacent channel QRM that was around at that time.
> 73's,
> Brian
> G3UJE
>
> *From:* Chris G3SJJ <g3sjj at btinternet.com>
> *To:*
> *Cc:* uk-contest at contesting.com
> *Sent:* Tuesday, 22 November 2011, 12:23
> *Subject:* Re: [UK-CONTEST] RSGB 2nd 1.8Mc/s Sports Radio event
>
> I had a quick listen at around 2145 and thought activity was lower than normal. I only had the 80m dipole available but heard a JR1 call and work
> G3UJE. I was hearing him better than UJE!
>
> Chris G3SJJ
>
>
>
> On 21/11/2011 22:25, G4FNL wrote:
> > Conditions were  poor. Activity levels were down. Some of the usual suspects
> > were missing. Very few Gs on the band. However, on the plus side, it was
> > easy to find a clear freq! The first hour or so was OK, but became a bit of
> > a slog thereafter. No USA / VE nor JA in my log. Frustratingly, I was called
> > by a VE just after the contest ended. I guess I need a bigger antenna.
> >
> > So, I ended up with a total of 177 Qs, with 24 DXCC + 45 Districts.
> >
> > I worked 3 entrants used non standard district codes (based on their
> > postcode I think) I hope that won't cost me in the adjudication....
> >
> > FT1000MP + TL922 + Inverted L / Dipole
> >
> > Thanks to all for the QSOs
> >
> > 73 Graham G4FNL
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