[UK-CONTEST] 21/28MHz Contest

[Christopher Plummer]

Ken,
 
As a member of the contest sub-committee for BARTG, I would support BARTG taking on the slot, however, on current experience we do need a more efficient contest checker/scoring system (we are now 3 contests behind with results).  Anyone good at C programming???
 
Chris G8APB
BARTG Awards Manager 
 

> From: g0orh at sky.com
> Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2011 08:57:09 +0100
> To: g4kno.mail at gmail.com
> CC: uk-contest at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] 21/28MHz Contest
> 
> Andy et al
> I'm thinking exact same thing, lots of NA callers giving serial 001. Even JA on 10m was 001.
> 239 qso's with a couple of dupes.
> Good runs of JA, and even KH6 on 15m.
> Lots of UA9's.
> 10.5 hrs, and time off for Sunday dinner, lawn mowing etc.
> Still one of my favorite events, and I would want it on the calendar next year.
> 
> But should it fail.... Perhaps ask BARTG to take it on as an RTTY event and count for the HF champs!!!!
> 
> Ken..G0ORH
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 4 Oct 2011, at 21:04, Andy Summers <g4kno.mail at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Band Q M
> > 21MHz: 42 12
> > 28MHz: 12 11
> > Total: 54 23
> > 
> > More of a serious effort this year. Did the full painfully slow 12 
> > hours. I'm sure some might suggest I go mixed mode, but I'm a long time 
> > supporter of this contest specifically because I can run SSB in a 
> > restricted section - which better suits mine and my station's abilities.
> > 
> > Thank goodness for the Russians! Despite better conditions in this 
> > contest than I can remember for some time, they must have made up 90% of 
> > the stations running - that I could hear anyway. I could hear 9J2BO 
> > rag-chewing down the bottom of 15m, so he must have given it a miss this 
> > year. My own CQ's generally were fruitless, but did bag a few. Most of 
> > the time was spent persuading stations not in the contest to give me a 
> > serial number. I am a bit worried whether the adjudicator will believe 
> > that many 001 serials! Indeed I worked one station who gave me 001 and 
> > straight after worked another G and gave him 001 too!
> > 
> > The antenna was the same as last year - a fan of 1/4-wave verticals, 
> > ground-mounted on a common feed and radial system. I'd put some more 
> > effort into the radials this past year and this does seem to have 
> > helped. Generally I could work all I could hear - the problem being that 
> > I couldn't hear what others were obviously hearing! Nonetheless, I never 
> > cease to be amazed by what can be worked with such a simple setup - 
> > YF1AR an example on 10m. I was also really lucky to work ZS1AFS on 15m 
> > towards the end of the contest when he decided to stop going for WAS and 
> > turn the beam towards blighty.
> > 
> > I did a lot better this year, but I can't compete with a Guernsey prefix!
> > 
> > 73 Andy G4KNO.
> > 
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