[UK-CONTEST] CQ160 CW-G3P

[Thomas Cannon]

I was wondering who was end stop with me using G3P. Massive signal. As the 
crow flies we must only be about 2 miles apart.

Your Hellikite works well, I have lost 2 so far. Too many trees in my 
garden.

I went in for the last 3 and a half hours using my low dipole and 400 
watts.I did not get the antenna ready to use till about 1700

Did not work any VE or W stations, I did not even hear any.

Best DX was Russia, ended with 35 Countries and 185 QSO,s.

Thanks to all the EU stations that kept me busy at times and Dave G3YMC, 
S52P-QRP  called me, it took me nearly 5 mins before I got his call 
complete. I was pleased I did not have to get a serial number from him.

Lots of fun

Tom G0VQR / M3C




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Chamberlain" <g3wph at folly.demon.co.uk>
To: <uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, January 30, 2012 11:04 PM
Subject: [UK-CONTEST] CQ160 CW-G3P


> One of my favourite contests and with Nigel (TXF) out of the country I
> thought I might stand a chance in the newly introduced
> single-operator/assisted category.  The plan was for the full 30 hours, 
> but
> unexpectedly falling asleep at the key at about 4am on Sunday morning and 
> an
> unplanned visit from my sons on Sunday afternoon reduced operating time to
> about 27 hours.
>
> As reported elsewhere conditions on both days were down on last year - I
> suspect we were still suffering the impacts of the sun's activity earlier 
> in
> the week and any Northerly path was out of the question. To the East I
> didn't hear any VK, far East or zone 18 & 19 stations on either night.
> Things were a little better to the West - on Saturday morning around 1 am 
> I
> had a weak opening to a limited part of the Eastern seaboard,  ME, NJ, PEI 
> &
> NS, followed by a really strong (well S7) signal from HK0 and QSOs with 
> PJ2,
> NP2 and KV4 but couldn't hear any of the C6s.  Things then went quiet 
> again
> until the hour proceeding my Sunrise when I worked a few North Eastern
> states plus a couple of Texas stations.  On Saturday night/Sunday morning
> the band opened weakly  to the Eastern Seaboard at 2330 and supported QSO
> through to a few minutes after my Sunrise.  There were strong peaks around
> 1:45 am and the hour before my Sunrise.  Furthest West was Idaho and South
> down to TN. Worked a C6 and CE1/K7CA but no real opening to the Caribbean 
> or
> South America. Overall I worked 112 W/VE stations, all but a handful on 
> the
> second evening.
>
> Most enjoyable was the lack of stations with key clicks this year - are we
> at the end of the generation of clicky rigs?  In reaction to being spotted
> on the cluster, rare stations are beginning to adopt the approach of split
> operation.  I appreciate split operation in contests is frowned upon but 
> it
> appears to work well so I guess we better get used to it.  That comment
> should spawn an interesting thread on the reflector!
>
> Which countries contributed most to my QSO count?  No prizes for guessing
> Germany with 171 QSOs. I had 53 UK QSOs, mostly with the old hands at
> contesting - we need to spread the word this is a great contest for
> beginners with many low speed QSOs taking place between 1855 kHz and 1875
> kHz.
>
> This year yielded 451,617 points from 924 QSOs with 28 states/provinces 
> and
> 59 countries.  Last year was 732k points from 1096 QSOs, 40 
> states/provinces
> and 73 countries.
>
> Operating conditions were, FT2k, ACOM 1000 at 400 watts output (yes 
> really),
> 40m sloper held aloft with a Helikite and a 4 direction K9AY for receive.
>
> Slow at times but as always enjoyable.
> Mike /G3WPH
>
>
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