i gave the wrong reference today. I was on Beinn Mhic Chasgaig WS-140 but kept giving WS-170. I’m not sure, maybe early onset senility or exhaustion from having climbed up the Allt Choire Ghiubhasan. I wrote WS-140 on the map and on the log. Then sent WS-170.
Correct reference WS-140 not WS-170
Conditions were poor so only Messrs. G4ZRP, GM7PKT/p, G4DDL, G4ELZ, G3RDQ, G3RMD, G4SSH, Dl7KVD & DL6KVA need to update their logs.
Ah, that must be the reason you couldn’t hear me Robin. Mind you, neither could Jack on Stuchd an Lochain GM/CS-032. Did ya nae hear the sassenach on the frequency?
Perhaps I should stop being so lazy and change the beam to vertical polarisation. I think you’d have heard me then.
73, Gerald G4OIG
GM4OIG/P on GM/SS-228 26th August 2012
In reply to G4OIG:
Were you out there then? Now if I wasn’t so lazy to just run vertical polarisation it would have made all the difference - hi!
Interestingly, I had some stronger local contacts on 20M ground wave than 2M and that’s my 1/4 raised vertical GP for 20 v 5/8th over 2 x 1/4 GP for 2. Just goes to show!
Ah, that must be the reason you couldn’t hear me Robin. Mind you,
neither could Jack on Stuchd an Lochain GM/CS-032. Did ya nae hear the
sassenach on the frequency?
I did hear you Gerald - in QSO with GM4GUF/p. (both good signals)
But when you finished, you QSY’d to ??? so quickly that I missed you.
Didn’t hear a thing on 70 cms.
Aye, but running mainly 2m SSB as usual. I need to find some way of facilitating a quick polarisation change without taking the beam off the pole as the HF antenna is usually positioned above it.
Pity that we missed out on the QSO Robin - I did announce a move down a couple, meaning that I was dropping down from .450 to .400, but didn’t stay longer than two or three CQ calls as we had a date with a couple more summits - as usual. Hopefully manage a contact the next time that Paul and I sneak through passport control.
I thought it was me going senile! I checked my log and found no asterisk so I checked your log for the day and found i had the ref wrong. I don’t usually mess up CW numbers (apart from the odd typo) - only about 10 errors in a 1000 QSOs in CQWW- so assumed I had gone senile and corrected my log.
I was VERY pleased to see your message and discover that at the ripe old age of 63 I still can read CW OK