A New Look Website for 2012
The old G7SKR website looked a bit neglected and had not been maintained for a couple of years. Keen to try out WordPress in a production environment, I decided to translate my old website to WordPress in order to understand it a little better.
Christmas seemed like an ideal opportunity to invest some spare time getting it off the ground. And so here we are. Most of the pages have been transferred to WordPress but there are a few documents, files and video clips that are still pending transfer. I'll also back-fill the empty posts (i.e. SOTA and Contest) with appropriate pictures and commentary. They will appear over the next few weeks.
Best wishes to all for 2012.
Dave, G7SKR.
HF Islands on the Air (IOTA) Contest 2011
Post-Contest Report
Contest Time: 1200UTC Saturday 30th July to 1200UTC Sunday 31st July 2011
Mode: SSB
Band: 80m, 40m, 20m, 15m, 10m
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Submitted Entry Statistics and Notes
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IOTA Adjudication and Results
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CQ WPX SSB: Mar 2010
Post Contest Report
Contest Time: 0000UTC Saturday 27th March to 2359UTC Sunday 28th March 2010
Mode: SSB
Band: 15m
The CQ WPX Contest is one of the big international contests which takes place each year where our club contest callsign M5T can be used.
2010 was my first entry in this contest and I chose to operate the club callsign in a single operator, SSB, low power category and on just a single band, 15m.
Only simple, home-brew wire aerials were available for use and they were all cut for 7MHz; a 40m dipole in my loft and a temporary 40m vertical on a 10 metre high fishing pole with radials in the back garden. These worked quite well on 21MHz operating as 3/2 wave and 3/4 wave respectively.
Below-par band conditions and not a lot of available operating time were additional constraints. However, with a lot of "search and pounce" and some "running", the 100 Watts were sufficient to rack up 8,601 points after adjudication and win a certificate for First Place, Low Power, SSB, Single Operator, 15m, England.
Mode: SSB
Band: 40m
As 15m closed for the day, I operated a second entry under my own callsign in the single operator, low power, single band (40m) category. I used the same aerials as above which also worked very well on 40m. Conditions were quite good but local QRM in the evenings did cause difficulty at times.
I submitted 212 QSOs and 189 multipliers but lost two of each in adjudication. My final score was 105,281 which was good enough for second place in England for this category.