[UK-CONTEST] ARRL CW 2012- 20m

[Clive GM3POI]

Like Jim  I planned a serious attempt at the EU record for 20m. This seemed possible because in 2010 I found that I was within 4 Qsos of the record with some 1903 Qs  in the bag. 
	Come the start of the contest I had been testing the antenna and kicked off at midnight, by 0130z I had 30 mults in the bin and  45 Qs. A useful start to the attempt.
	 Saturday came and went and by midnight 1200 Qs were in the log and 58 mults, but 1200 is probably not quite high enough for the record. Sunday conditions were not great and got very boring as I by then realised that it just would not happen this year. I cut my losses and watched some TV with 1561Q  plus 59 mults for 276297 points
	My big moan of the weekend was the quality of some of the East European signal containing multiple signals, hum etc. and taking up too much of the spectrum. In particular I noted RG3K; LZ5R; UW1M and RN3F all deserving to be DQ'd . 
	This I believe brings up the point should not Contest organisers be enforcing a reasonable signal standard ( by use of SDR etc.)
And kicking butt where needed, We after all cannot afford wide signals on a narrow band mode. 
73 Clive GM3POI 

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From: uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Jim
Sent: 21 February 2012 09:31
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Subject: [UK-CONTEST] ARRL CW 2012

I was planning to put in a serious single band entry. Original plan was the knock up a simple beam for 15m. However what with the snow and other factors this never happened. So stuck with my 15m Inverted Vee Dipole at 50 feet. I was going to enter the single band unassisted section but discovered for some reason on Sunday that I was running the cluster behind WinTest. So that put the kibosh on that.

The band started to open at about 1100 on Saturday with me. Did a combination of S/P and Run. Run was never that productive but have found in the past that it can bring you the odd rare State. By the end of the day I was just short of WV and OK as far as US States went. Thought I would pick those up easily the next day. Sunday the band was pretty late in opening but seemed to get quite good to the West Coast later. Just like buses when I finally worked WV several came along pretty in pretty quick succession. But where was was Oklahoma? Never did hear or work it. Was a bit disappointed as normally plenty of them about.

Final score – 15m - 600 QSOs  - 55 States – 100,800 points.  Not worked or heard OK, LB, NT, YT & NU. Heard but not worked NB & NF

Equipment – FT-2000 – Alpha 91b – Inverted Vee Dipole at 50 feet. WinTest.

73 Jim G3RTE

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