[UK-CONTEST] UK-Contest Digest, Vol 110, Issue 35

Mon Feb 27 00:42:00 PST 2012

Geoff,
I had a lot of this type of noise too, and thought it was local, but it
peaked to the north-west. It was hardly noticeable on the vertical when I
wired it up on Sunday, but very annoying on the dipole when used. Very
strange. Wasn't taking the contest seriously, just giving away a few points.
73
Stewart

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Ref CQ 160 SSB

I think condx were poor. Only worked about 4 stateside and no Caribbean.
Probably only heard about 3 stateside I didn't manage to contact and the
carib gotaways were NP4A, KV4FZ, ZF2AM  plus XE1RCS. Cannot compare the two
mornings as Saturday I was not around at the appropriate time. Set up
inverted L 55 foot vertical section and beverages to W and NW. I was also
troubled by some pulse type interference at times. Not sure what it is but I
hope it fails soon! Wasn't a serious entry in the contest just S & P for new
countries.

73,
Geoff Dover, G4AFJ,
31 Newbold Road,
Kirkby Mallory,
Leicestershire,
LE9 7QG,
UK.

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> Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 10:57:00 -0000
> From: "Colin Wilson" <colin at sheffield-live.co.uk>
> Subject: [UK-CONTEST] Fw: [CDXC] Worked All Provinces of China (WAPC)
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> Please see the mail below which I am forwarding on behalf of Steve.
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> From: Steve Telenius-Lowe
> To: CDXC Reflector ; Col MM0NDX ; bernie at dailydx.com
> Sent: Sunday, February 26, 2012 10:36 AM
> Subject: [CDXC] Worked All Provinces of China (WAPC) DX Contest
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> Hi all,
> 
> Apologies if this is common knowledge, but it is the first I have 
> heard of it.
> 
> Yes, there are so many Chinese stations active these days that they 
> are going to organise a DX contest. (Living here, I am not sure if 
> this is something to be celebrated or not!)
> 
> "The first WAPC contest will be hold in 2012 Oct. 6, from 0000-2359 
> UTC. A testing contest will be running on third Saturday of April, 
> 2012, It is 21 April 2012 from 0000-2359UTC.logs and records will be 
> filed but no awards will be issued."
> 
> The full rules are on BA7IO's qrz.com page at 
> http://www.qrz.com/db/BA7IO
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> I am not a member of any contest reflectors: perhaps someone who is 
> could cross-post to a contest reflector?
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> 73,
> Steve, 9M6DXX
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> From: David Gould <dave at g3ueg.co.uk>
> Subject: [UK-CONTEST] CQ160 SSB propagation question
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> If anyone was doing this contest both nights I would be interested in 
> views of the NA propagation on Friday night/sat morn  compared to 
> Saturday night/ sun morn?
> 
> However, my main problem was not being able to hear enough through the
> S9 noise.
> 
> I was doing a "trial" from my very small home back garden, which I 
> have not done for over 12 years.  Unfortunately I had an antenna 
> problem at
> 00.30 Sat morning, and despite trying for an hour in the dark, I 
> missed the problem, so gave up until daylight.  I soon found the 
> problem and fixed it in daylight and everything worked fine last 
> night,  but my perception was that things seemed more lively around 
> the early hours of saturday  than this morning.  I only managed 4 NA 
> QSOs.  What did others think?
> 
> May not be of general interest, so happy to take replies off reflector.
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> 73,
> Dave, G3UEG
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