[UK-CONTEST] 6M AC Tuesday 23rd October

[Tim Hugill]

On Tuesday evening, at G4TSW we had some relatively good tropo conditions to
the east, with most stations 2 or 3 s-points louder than usual.
The highlight was DH6JL who was in intermittently via tropo for about 30
minutes or so.

Rather belatedly, I've been on the Hepburn site
http://www.dxinfocentre.com/tropo_nwe.html 
and grabbed the archive image for tropo propogation for Tuesday at 0600z.
But does anyone know how to get (or has) the image for 1800z or 2400z on the
23rd ??

73
Tim G4FJK




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Well, what an evening! Everything just seemed to work for team M0GVG/P last
night. Somehow we arrived on site with plenty of time to spare. It wasn't
raining and the temperature was mild, though it was a little breezy and we
were well into the cloud layer (someone commented that it was like being
inside a paper bag). Station set up went well and by the time we all sat in
the car, ready to kick off, we even had 8 minutes to spare...a short period
of looking at each other wondering how that happened followed.
>From the outset there was a continuous queue of two to three stations and a
Q rate of over one per minute was maintained for the first hour and a
quarter.
Conditions favoured the south to a noticeable degree, with only GM4JR being
worked in GM, regardless of some fairly long periods spent calling in that
direction.
It was pleasing to see a good turn out from JO02 and number of other
unfamiliar stations added to the overall result, including a second station
in IO64. Both IO80 and IO90 were worked, which is an uncommon pairing.
Nothing heard from IO70/71 nor IN89, JO00, JO03 or IO95.

I have to say that yesterday evening's event was probably the most enjoyable
6M AC to date.

Roger, G0BSU