[UK-CONTEST] UK-Contesting in 2012

[Tim Hague]

I've expressed my interest in participating in a major contest before with no takers, I can't do anything serious on HF from home due to S9 QRM from Plasma, SMPS etc, so I've improved my VHF and UHF set up so I can at least do reasonably well in the activity contests.

There are people who are interested but it can be quite difficult to get the invite...

Tim M0AFJ

Best regards, Tim Hague
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On 6 Feb 2012, at 20:00, uk-contest-request at contesting.com wrote:

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> Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:24:52 +0000
> From: Peter Day <microwaves at blueyonder.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] U.K. contesting in 2012
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> On 05/02/2012 22:59, Gavin Stirling GM0WDD wrote:
>> Ok I'll bite. I occasionally have a dabble on VHF but having listened
>> into an HF contest what a bore and you do it over 24 or 48 hours!
>> It's almost as exciting as playing golf, watching snooker or the
>> Super Bowl.  :-/
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>> Sell it to me as I don't see the attraction. There are many more
>> attractive ways of spending my life than listening to a wall of
>> noise......
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>> Regards, Gav GM0WDD
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> Gavin... if you have this viewpoint on contests, what made you subscribe 
> to this reflector? Just curious :-) I wouldn't have thought an 
> occasional dabble in VHF contests would have drawn you to what is 
> largely a group of die hard contesters!
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> Best wishes,
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> Peter, G3PHO
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> Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2012 19:19:30 +0000
> From: Gavin Stirling GM0WDD <gm0wdd at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] U.K. contesting in 2012
> To: "microwaves at blueyonder.co.uk" <microwaves at blueyonder.co.uk>
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> Purely because occasionally there are some interesting snippets of information such as UKAC reports. 
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> Regards,
> Gav
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> Sent from my iPhone
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> On 6 Feb 2012, at 17:24, Peter Day <microwaves at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
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>> On 05/02/2012 22:59, Gavin Stirling GM0WDD wrote:
>>> Ok I'll bite. I occasionally have a dabble on VHF but having listened
>>> into an HF contest what a bore and you do it over 24 or 48 hours!
>>> It's almost as exciting as playing golf, watching snooker or the
>>> Super Bowl.  :-/
>>> 
>>> Sell it to me as I don't see the attraction. There are many more
>>> attractive ways of spending my life than listening to a wall of
>>> noise......
>>> 
>>> Regards, Gav GM0WDD
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Gavin... if you have this viewpoint on contests, what made you subscribe 
>> to this reflector? Just curious :-) I wouldn't have thought an 
>> occasional dabble in VHF contests would have drawn you to what is 
>> largely a group of die hard contesters!
>> 
>> Best wishes,
>> 
>> 
>> Peter, G3PHO
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