Showing posts with label july 1st 2014. Show all posts
Showing posts with label july 1st 2014. Show all posts

1 Jul 2014

2m UK Activity Contest - July 1st

This evening, with a VERY strained voice, I took part in the 2m July 1st UKAC contest from home, working 10 stations in a little over an hour before I had to stop. I was running 5W from the FT817ND to a hand rotated 3 el beam. Best DX was 240km up to the North York Moors. I heard IO95 (Northumberland) and Wales and other squares, but my voice was too poor to carry on past 2036z. Had I been fitter, I'd probably have turned the beam south and worked more squares and stations. Contests are hard for me at present. My voice is so poor.
2m stations worked tonight - 5W 3el