[UK-CONTEST] UK-Contest Digest, Vol 115, Issue 15
dale.harvey at eddystone-broadcast.com
dale.harvey at eddystone-broadcast.com
Mon Jul 16 12:45:07 PDT 2012
Keith. Parafil was used by Marconi in their days in Broadcast but I was told that it is very difficult to terminate, it needs special crimping to make sure the many fibres are contained. I used 1\2" rope designed as mooring rope from a chandler (nylon based or terylene I believe) for my BP80 some years ago. It stretched more than Parafil would, I'm sure, but with a reasonable tension, the tower stayed up. Dale G3XBY
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Today's Topics:
1. Commonwealth Contest - Adjudication error corrected.
(Steve Knowles)
2. Re: Commonwealth Contest - Adjudication error corrected.
(Dave Sergeant)
3. Re: UK HQ station GO2HQ in IARU contest (mm0bqi)
4. Non-conducting guy ropes for towers - your experience needed!
(Kerr, Prof. K.M.)
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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2012 21:26:12 -0000
From: "Steve Knowles" <g3ufy at blueyonder.co.uk>
Subject: [UK-CONTEST] Commonwealth Contest - Adjudication error
corrected.
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Due to a mistake by the adjudicator (ie me), one entrant in the Commonwealth Contest was wrongly penalised a substantial number of contacts. This error has now been corrected and the results website updated.
No award winners are affected but a number of entrants in the open section will find they have been moved to one place lower than they were before.
I do apologise for what was, really, a very silly slip. Fortunately it was reflected in the UBN files and so was discovered quickly.
Vy 73
Steve G3UFY
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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 07:18:51 +0100
From: "Dave Sergeant" <dave at davesergeant.com>
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] Commonwealth Contest - Adjudication error
corrected.
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Will that mean that some of our UBN reports have changed, in particular
with respect to serial number received out by one errors?
I had one where I allegedly copied 305 as 306, something I find hard to
believe...
73 Dave G3YMC
On 15 Jul 2012 at 21:26, Steve Knowles wrote:
> Due to a mistake by the adjudicator (ie me), one entrant in the
> Commonwealth Contest was wrongly penalised a substantial number of
> contacts. This error has now been corrected and the results website
> updated.
>
> No award winners are affected but a number of entrants in the open
> section will find they have been moved to one place lower than they were
> before.
>
> I do apologise for what was, really, a very silly slip. Fortunately it
> was reflected in the UBN files and so was discovered quickly.
>
http://www.davesergeant.com
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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 08:45:21 +0100
From: mm0bqi <mm0bqi at blueyonder.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] UK HQ station GO2HQ in IARU contest
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A quick well done to all those involved.
I managed a few hours on Saturday as GM1J clocking up 10 band/mode slots
but just could not get 10/15 SSB in the log. Having had success with my
trapped vertical on the higher bands I threw up my IOTA 80m inverted L with
a couple of radials on the ground and quickly had top band and 80m Qs in
the log. Amazingly the first station I heard on 80m was a VK2IM working a
DL, I could do with mults like that during IOTA!
Sunday, a quick blast as MM0BQI netted the team on 6 band/mode slots.
I hope it was successful for the team as the amount of effort and sheer
hard work must have been immense.
Thanks for making GO2HQ available to the masses.
73
Jim, MM0BQI
On 14 July 2012 09:40, geoff plucknett <geoffg4fka at virginmedia.com> wrote:
> Thanks Steve we'll do our best.
>
> Geoff G4FKA @ GO2HQ
>
> On 13 July 2012 22:24, STEVE JONES <gw0gei at btinternet.com> wrote:
>
> > Best of luck to the team for this weekend
> >
> > Will be looking for you on 160,80, 40 early on and later on for the
> higher
> > bands
> >
> > 73
> >
> > Steve GW0GEI
> >
> >
> > ________________________________
> > From: Chris Tran GM3WOJ <gm3woj at christran.net>
> > To: uk-contest at contesting.com
> > Sent: Friday, 13 July 2012, 17:23
> > Subject: [UK-CONTEST] UK HQ station GO2HQ in IARU contest
> >
> > Hello UK contesters
> >
> > The U.K. HQ team are pleased to have been issued with the callsign GO2HQ
> > for this weekend's IARU HF Championship. The contest runs from 1200z on
> > 14th
> > July 2012 until 1200z on the 15th July 2012, 160m to 10m, SSB and CW. We
> > hope you will try to work all of the different GO2HQ stations which are
> > located around the U.K. You should send the contest exchange 59(9) + ITU
> > zone i.e. 59 27
> >
> > Please visit www.gr2hq.com for information about QSLs and our Awards
> > scheme - we have 2 new Awards this year for working GO2HQ on all 12
> > band/modes in (a) the shortest possible time and (b) within a 30-minute
> > time
> > slot. The latter is an interesting challenge for you - you have to choose
> > the best 30 minutes in the 24 hours of the contest !
> >
> > Inter-U.K. propagation can make it difficult at times for the GO2HQ
> > stations
> > to hear U.K. stations calling - please persevere, bearing in mind that
> the
> > GO2HQ station may have an S9+ pile-up calling them. Every GO2HQ station
> > will
> > be able to tell you the working frequencies on the other band/modes -
> > please
> > ask. You are also encouraged to work the other HQ stations which will be
> > active from around the world.
> >
> > Lastly - please keep a look-out for the following stations who are
> hosting
> > GO2HQ stations - they may be active just before the contest starts with
> > their own callsigns and will change to GO2HQ at 1200z : G3BJ, G6MC,
> G0KPW,
> > GM3POI, GM3WOJ, G6PZ, G3LZQ, M0DJW, MI0LLL
> >
> > 73
> > Chris
> > GM3WOJ
> > GO2HQ Team leader
> >
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Message: 4
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 14:39:10 +0100
From: "Kerr, Prof. K.M." <k.kerr at abdn.ac.uk>
Subject: [UK-CONTEST] Non-conducting guy ropes for towers - your
experience needed!
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Hi all,
I need to source some non-conducting rope for the top guy set of a P80.
Phillystran seems to be the 'standard' but I cannot see any sign of a UK source, only Array Solutions in W5. That is fine but I was hoping for a UK source to assist logistics and maybe cost.
Does anyone know of a source in the UK?
Or know of a source of an alternative and have experience of same?
I heard about stuff called Parafil. But not sure about how it compares to steel in terms of strength etc so it is hard to judge. Parafil website not hugely helpful in that regard. I am in touch with the company but I need hands-on experiences.
Maybe off-reflector replies would be better, but happy to share what I learn - if anything.
Many thanks,
Keith GM4YXI
k.kerr at abdn.ac.uk
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