[UK-CONTEST] NFD

[Peter Hobbs]

I did count around 33 altogether Cris, but certainly well down on last 
year's entries.  My feeling is that the restricted section is now way 
too  tightly defined for such a small pool of entrants.  I certainly 
found little commonality possible with the /P station I put together for 
9H3ET  in BERU (restricted section) back in March, which just called for 
single elements antennas .  My original thought was to re-use as much of 
that as possible for NFD, but aerial wise this just wasn't possible.  If 
as much as is allowed can be easily rigged single-handed in 3 or 4 
hours, it seems reasonable that even the smallest local club should have 
a bit more scope.

The other issue is the disparity between the rule sets for NFD and the 
DARC version which is now many times bigger (I counted 3 times as many 
DL portables), and so entering both versions of the event with any 
competitive stance is just about impossible.

My big mistake (again!) was not spending more time on 10/15m on Saturday 
afternoon, thinking all day was available on Sunday, but conditions 
deteriorated fast towards the end and even 40m was more productive for 
much of the time.

Major highlights were finding old mates VE3ZI, VK2BJ, ZL2iFB, K3ZO, C4Z 
and of course your good self - thanks for all the calls Cris! 

Never having done more than a short stint at any NFD before, I was 
surprised at how soon everyone deserted 160 and 80m, which would have 
been productive at least until daylight.  Feeling my way in, I got off 
to a pitifully slow start and my numbers were soon less than half those 
of several others.  I'd felt that a target of 1000 QSOs ought to be 
achievable and made this by 12.00, leaving (I thought) some time to play 
on 10m.  Just two QSOs, A6 and LU, having left 9J2BO "until later", by 
which time there was no sign . . .

A few photos of  G3LET/P are at

https://picasaweb.google.com/101526936254167090791/G3LETP

73, Peter G3LET



gm4fam wrote:

>Hi Graham
>
> From this Northerly perch activity from UK sounded well down this
>year - QJ celebs? WX? - over and over again only heard about 12
>different stations - 3 from GM, 1 GW, 1 GI and the rest G.
>
>Disappointing.
>
>73 Cris
>GM4FAM
>
>On 04.06.2012 16:48, G4FNL wrote:
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>
>>>Seems to be a disproportionately large number of check logs being 
>>>sent to
>>>the RSGB CC robot for NFD. Anyone know why?
>>>
>>>73 Graham G4FNL
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