[WWYC] Hi Lids!

[Gerard Lynch]

It was good to work you, but *boy* does my current home antenna stink!

73 de Gerry G0RTN

----- Original Message -----
From: Hrvoje Horvat <hrle at ipazin.net>
To: <wwyc at contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2004 4:53 PM
Subject: Re: [WWYC] Hi Lids!


> This is a very good example for all others that join the Club!
>
> Thanks a lot Gerard, was pleasure reading your mail and I'm sure you'll
find
> some space in some UK YC gang operations in future!
>
> Thanks for the QSO in Ukraine DX Contest this weekend Gerard.
> I was on air just a bit as 9A7P.
>
> 73 all, Hrle - 9A6XX
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gerard Lynch" <gerrylynch at freenetname.co.uk>
> To: <wwyc at contesting.com>
> Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2004 12:49 PM
> Subject: [WWYC] Hi Lids!
>
>
> > Hi Lids,
> >
> > thought this would be a good opportunity to introduce myself to you all.
> My
> > name is Gerry Lynch and I hold the callsign G0RTN (originially GI0RTN
but
> I
> > moved to England four years ago, and they're really the same callsign if
> you
> > see what I mean).  This is my only callisign and I've held it since I
was
> > first licensed in 1992.  My first ever contest was using someone else's
> > station in the Scandinavian SSB contest in 1991.  Makes me feel like a
> real
> > OM now!!!  I'm 27 years old so have a few more years in WWYC.
> >
> > While I very much enjoy contesting, I've only sporadically been on the
> bands
> > since I was first licensed.  I couldn't afford anything except a very
old
> > FT200 when I was first licensed, and it wasn't up to contesting,
> especially
> > on CW, and at the same time my club closed down, there were no others
> > anywhere near where I lived and no-one seemed very interested in
> contesting
> > in GI then anyway.  In 1996, however, I got a second hand FT757GX and
was
> > active in all the main CW contests and a little bit on SSB as well, with
> > just 100W and a vertical made out of a CB aerial.  Then in 2000 I moved
to
> > London and was living in shared houses with no possibility of putting up
> > ants, and was QRT until September when I got back on the air again.  At
> the
> > moment I'm just dropping a wire out of my window at night when the
> > neighbours can't see, and am mostly active on 40 metres about
2300-0100Z,
> > but I hope to get on the roof of the flats soon to put up a dipole.
This
> > is, of course, not allowed, but I live on the top (9th) floor anyway so
I
> > hope I can make the feeder and the antenns itself fairly unobtrusive.
> With
> > any luck I should be on the air for CQ WW CW but I'm not counting on it.
> So
> > if any nice multi-operator station in the South East of England (or
maybe
> > even further afield - ON or F are possibilities from here!!!) wants to
> offer
> > me some operating time, I'd be delighted to help.  I'm a little out of
> > contest practice but love CW and have been working on recovering my QRQ
> > skills.
> >
> > At the weekend I operated as part of the M2W M/S team, my first
reasonably
> > serious effort at a contest since CQ WW CW in 1998.  We had very poor
ants
> > as our M/M plans fell through at the last minute - a triband minibeam, a
> > G5RV and a longwire for 160 0 the conditions on 10 were great and we
made
> > about 1.3M points.  Not great I know,  but not bad as we made less than
> 100
> > QSOs on horrible 40SSB and more QSOs on 80 than on 20.  Some lovely runs
> > into W/VE on 10 metres and more PY and especially LU stations than I can
> > even remember in a contest.
> >
> > This was also (I kid you not) my first experience of computer logging.
> N1MM
> > is fantastic, so easy to use!  I was really worried about this before
the
> > contest but really shouldn't have been.
> >
> > Apart from all this I like practising my language skills - I speak
fluent
> > German and pretty good Turkish.  I can also get by in French,
> >
> > 73 es CU all on the bands...
> >
> > Gerry G0RTN/GI0RTN
> >
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