[UK-CONTEST] UKAC Contests.

[Ian White GM3SEK]

Dave Sergeant wrote:
>I have not done any of the UKACs for quite a while, being really an HF 
>CW man and with only a vertical and FT290 for 2m it is not really worth 
>the effort. But when I did do them, I thought the 10.30pm finish time 
>far too late - with my set up I had worked everybody I was going to 
>work in the first hour.

Yes, Dave, but that was because you made personal choices that 
restricted the number of stations you could hear. It has nothing to do 
with other people, or with the contest in general.

If you had used the correct polarization, even a horizontal halo would 
have uncovered another layer of stations that could be worked with your 
2-3W; a small beam would uncover another layer still; and with a good 
beam you would hear enough stations to occupy the whole time.

>The 80m CCs manage quite well with a 90 minute slot and the sprints are 
>now just 60 minutes which has gone down well with many entrants.
>
But the propagation, the QSO format and the whole pace of HF contests is 
completely different. It has no bearing on contests in a different part 
of the spectrum that have different challenges.


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73 from Ian GM3SEK
http://www.ifwtech.co.uk/g3sek