Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2023 11:57:53 GMT

Hi Folks 

First of all thanks to all the HQ stations, worked most of the UK ones on 5bands plus all the travellers which was good to work on a lot of bands.

Over the last month the contests that use lower bands have been very poor condition wise and the higher bands have been much better, so this contest was the same. Started at 10am on the do on the Saturday on 10m. First contact with ZL was on 15 and then VK on 10m…..the noise level was low and it was easy to hear the stations and lucky there was no other contests to cause any issues with not having the space or just keying over all the DX.  8P0P on 10m was great to get at around 6pm on the Saturday then the band was still active but sadly not many stations to work.

Down onto 20m and worked some VE,6Y, ZL and VK. Some bits on 40m then dinner time and called it a night at 1900 BUT I came back into the shack at 2230 to find a lot of stations kicking around and 40m alive so took the gamble with the time and work some more until midnight then went to get some sleep. I did jump onto 160 and gave away some points for the SP contest….

Now for the Sunday I only had 2.30hs left of time to use, so thought I would start just before 7am and see what I could get, ZD7 on 40 then ZF2 on 80, then it was a case of hunting around and managed a number of VK and ZL on 40m but as others stated it was a bit of hard going due to aural effect and I slowed down and lots of repeats but this contest allows for that as its not massive numbers we will get so that was good, there was time. Finished off around 8.30am which was a good idea as I then went onto work some new countries for 2023, right place at r

I did not work VK or ZL on 80m, the other bands were great. Overall it was a great contest, always is. My Q count is up on last year which am happy with. I did miss GM5WS on 80 and 40 arghh but such is life.

Contest: RSGBBERU

 Band     QSOs     Pts  Cty  Sec  Pt/Q

   3.5       16         360   10    2  22.5

     7        41         845   29    1  20.6

    14       82       1650   57    5  20.1

    21       89       1665   56    5  18.7

    28       64       1300   44    2  20.3

 Total     292      5820  196   15  19.9

Score: 5,820

Kit: XR6c beam 20 to 10
Rotary dipole: 40m
Dipole: 80m
Radio: icom7610
Amp: Acom