[UK-CONTEST] ARRL CW 2012- 20m

[g3ory at lineone.net]

Clive,

You could add YT7A to your list - 2.5kHz wide on 40 (as seen on 
my SDR based panadaptor).

73 Bob
G3ORY

>----Original Message----

>From: gm3poi2 at btinternet.com
>Date: 21/02/2012 11:38 
>To: "Jim"
<jkellaway at btinternet.com>, "UKContest"<uk-contest at contesting.com>

>Subj: Re: [UK-CONTEST] ARRL CW 2012- 20m
>
>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 
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: uk-
contest-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:uk-contest-bounces at contesting.
com] On Behalf Of Jim
>Sent: 21 February 2012 09:31
>To: UKContest

>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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