Hi Bob

first time here in Barbados…got set up in nice rental house with sea view from verandah 50m from  the east coast beach.

From the suitcase managed to assemble 2 verticals ; 1  for 80, 1 for 20–10m on 2 corners of the verandah about 15 feet up, with danging radials..plus an in V for 10/15m.FTDX10 survived the journey!

the ants were very close to the local area  mains wiring, about 6 feet,  but no noise luckily here. Travellers dont know till we switch on! 

80m was not great with a short vertical, most  struggled to hear me but other bands did ok, especially 15m. Good runs on 15/10 on saturday. Had a break for

dinner with the xyl when I should have carried on but hehho! Also timed out for a 11/2  hour snooze at 2 am Z, not  going right through these days…

Most enjoyable with lots of VEs, more active than last timeI  think, lots of VE7 plus  VO VE 9  6 5 4 3 2 an 1.Pleased to be  called by some ZL s LP I think as short path ws uphill. Bit slow and weaker signals /QSB on sunday morning, waiting hopefully  for 15 to open, it didnt here, but Dave ZL/BUO and the 5B s were a great signal on 40/20m…never heard VP8 TXF in the contest sadly  from here. 5Z4 couldnt hear me, think he has noise ,

Thanks  to the HQ stations , all were great signals, afew QSY s were made on request, thats  the fun bit !

cheers

Mike 8P9YI   G3VYI

Contest: RSGBBERU
Band     QSOs     Pts  Cty  Sec  Pt/Q
  3.5      31     640   14    4  20.6
    7     140    1985   41    5  14.2
   14     120    1980   43    7  16.5
   21     186    2610   45    5  14.0
   28     112    1730   34    4  15.4
Total     589    8945  177   25  15.2
Score: 8,945
1 Mult = 2.9 Q’s