Radio Society of Great Britain. Official HF. Contest Results.
Results - 80m Club Championships 2008
Individual Sessions - 3rd MAR DATA
Poor conditions. The decision to operate 10W just made life that bit more difficult. G4ZFE A session to forget. Hope condx get better soon.... G6FOP High noise levels here spoiled the contest for me G7VRK Band seemed very Poor GM3YEH Fairly good conditions considering how bad 80m has been recently. M0ANM Nice contest if only we could break out of the Cheshire Gap. Icom-IC-756 pro III - Vertical Gap Challenger antenna. M0CES awful getting thru on low pwr M0CNP At times my waterfall display was blank, but things can only get better can't they? Thanks everyone for the points. M0DIW trying this new mode and could only get into local stations and got four in 90 minutes. M0GAV Hard going! still struggling with software!! M0JQK Like platting fog but enjoyed it all the same M0MDF Condx good at the start but tailed off towards the end. M0NKS Band seemed to develop a lot of QRM ans signals started to QSB from 2030hrs from this QTH M0OXO Only PSK31, probs with my RTTY M3TBK Tough going again. Tried S&P after a while, but didn't seem to be able to make myself heard! Also, can't understand why people send '5NN' - it's not quicker than '599' in RTTY! MM0GPZ Only on for last 20 minutes and condtitions seemed noisy and signals were poor. I saw some signals coming back to me but couldn't decode them?? MM0RKT Hard going! After 21:15 I could hear almost nothing but noise... PA0FAW Just a couple of minutes left. Only heard RTTY, saw no PSK contest station at that time. |
SOAPBOX: G0ADH Conditions not so good. G0AJJ Terrible conditions,high noise level,a real struggle! G0DAY Started off ok, but conditions just dived to awfull G0DVJ First ever data contest FT847, 100w, 80m Fullwave Loop. iMac OSX 10.4.11, CocoaModem software. G0KDS Weird conditions at times G0LWU Tnx for contest G0MTN Disappointed with operating skills during weak signal conditions. Callsigns and serial numbers need to be given more often. If asked for a number repeat, don't spend 30 seconds transmitting both callsigns again, and then 5 seconds on the number. Oh, and remember to try "QRL?" before CQ'ing. Please !?! G0NVY Called for 1 hour only to work 1 station. Conditions not good G0OKF ICOM 756 Pro III, 17 mts lenght of wire at 8m high and 40 watts. G0SIQ Conditions were strange.Lots of noise on the fequency and distortion of signals at one point G0WOT Conditions poor for final 30 minutes G3GWB Spent some time getting the system set up - then found zilch propagation!!! G3HRH Quite a lot of QRM. Band died in Cornwall around 21.00 Had to dig deep for the last few G3IZD Still trying to get the hang of these modes. Condx changed dramatically early on and nothing but EU stns sending their long brag files dogs name etc.I shall persevere G3KAF First time on RTTY I found it strange that every contest station was off frequency except me!!! Hence only 2 QSOs. Will sort out for next contest. Applogies to those who called and didn't get a reply. G3LDI Awful conditions, noisy band, some peculiar data noise covering several KHz and some deliberate carriers G3LHJ Great activity again, but band went long skip in the last 30 mins and found it very hard going, heard lots of "NR Again pse" Hi. G3PHO What a rubbish score for 90 minutes! Had software probs again this time plus very poor propagation in last half of contest. Had to manually enter exchanges, which slowed me down a lot. Things can only get better! G3RRL Started off OK, band disappeared around 2100. G3RXP More like ESP than RTTY. G3SHF Horrible conditions again! G3SWC Slow QSB caused a few problems. Only the GM's were solid copy! G3TXF S&P'ed for first 40 mins, then just sat on 3593 CQing. Still not sure how to handle the situation where two stations call at about same strength and for exactly the same length of time. An "agn agn" often results in precisely the same thing happening a second time, and just garbage on the screen. Life's not like that on CW (or even on SSB) .... is it? G3UJE Conditions were poor throughout the contest. Hope to do better next time. G3VCA Rig unstable, used 1/4 wave earth radial to lower Z to obtain 3 contacts - rig back with ICOM to sort G3VIP RIG IC7000-10w-50m LW - Hamscope/homebrew logger Strong sigs at start then things went haywire, deep QSB G3WVG Thought condx were poor, but then discovered my antenna had fallen down!! G3YHV Band died at 2100 ! G3ZBU Antenna far too low so did not get out well and could not hear any especially strong signals. Maybe condx were not up to much so went off to the CW end of the band and it was full of activity with people working JAs though I did not hear any myself. G3ZHE Another North Cheshire slog with the long winter skip passing us by. 756pro3, 40 watts to a 90ft doublet 30ft up G3ZVW Some QRN and QRM, but not too bad tonight. G4ABX Escellent contest logging program G4EBK Conditions poor from the east coast. Deep QSB made it very difficult. G4EOF Nice to be back on data modes G4FKA What a galactic change in conditions. 40 Qs in 39 mins then only 10 in the last 50 as the band leapt lemming-like over the great propagation precipice of despair! G4OGB Condx absolutely dire, struggled to be heard from the start. First thing I did Tues. morning was to check if the aerial was still there! |
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