[UK-CONTEST] CQWW 160 CW - G3SJJ

[Don Beattie]

Well you guys seem to be more sanguine about conditions than me !

I operated through the Friday night, but found US conditions very poor. Worked C6, KV4 and a number of US/VE stations, but even had to have three attempts to get KC1XX to hear me ! Could hear Az and Ca well, but no response. I think conditions were really quite poor and certainly no JA (just UA9s in quantity). Could not raise the XE's even though they were good copy here.

High spot of the Friday was being called by HK0NA right on his dusk.

Saturday I returned at around 17.00, but by 18.30 was CQing endlessly with very little Eu response. So in anticipation of another poor night to the US, I decided to give up the fight.

Perhaps my antenna is falling off, but I don't think so. I think condx were just very below-average.

Good to see you on Chris.

73

Don, G3BJ

 



>________________________________
> From: Chris G3SJJ <g3sjj at btinternet.com>
>To: 
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>Sent: Monday, 30 January 2012, 11:10
>Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] CQWW 160 CW - G3SJJ
> 
>Dave, there must have been a guest op at VY2ZM then as he called me at about 2000z on Saturday, likewise I worked Geoff K3ZM on Sunday morning. I 
>agree the US stations were weak on Sunday morning.
>
>Made a note to do a better entry next year, be nice to do it from GU!!
>73 Chris G3SJJ
>
>
>
>On 30/01/2012 10:47, Dave Sergeant wrote:
>> Indeed it was... Only one GW and two GMs here, nothing from GU or GD.
>>
>> As a QRP entrant I cannot comment on the DX, but certainly conditions
>> and activity seemed down this year. A mere 90 QSOs and 27 countries
>> with nothing outside Europe, 11,259 points. I see K3ZM was operating
>> from home rather from VY2ZM so that easy one was missing. Nothing
>> whatsoever heard from VE/USA on Saturday morning and they seemed rather
>> weak on Sunday. Last year, with exactly the same setup and similar
>> operating time, I worked 127 QSOs and 34 countries. Yes, a
>> disappointing year.
>>
>> I see S52P has submitted a QRP entry with 108k points, wonder how he
>> managed that..
>>
>> 73 Dave G3YMC
>>
>> On 30 Jan 2012 at 10:27, Chris G3SJJ wrote:
>>
>>> Another thing I forgot to say was that I thought UK activity was low.
>>>
>>
>> http://www.davesergeant.com
>>
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