From: Chris GM3WOJ
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2022 09:37:41 GMT
Hello all
Interesting to read all the reports about BERU last weekend. It is always enjoyable being an HQ station, so I volunteered to be GB5CC again this year. This callsign has been in use since 1987 (the 50th anniversary of BERU) – I asked OFCOM if I could use the callsign GB85CC this year, but I only thought of this about a week before the event so they said ‘no’.
Out of the 625 QSOs I made, only about 5 stations accused me of being G6HCC. I’m not sure why this happens – one Caribbean station refused to accept that I was sending GB5CC even when I slowed down to 12wpm and sent the callsign with a 2 second gap between the letters 😦 Maybe it’s a code-reader problem – anyway they will lose the points despite my best efforts.
Overall the contest went reasonably well, but as others have mentioned, the edge was slightly taken off things for me by events in Ukraine in the background. A healthy turn-out from VK*WIA stations, but a disappointing number of VE*RAC stations this year. Jacky ZL3CW at ZL6HQ was a loud signal here on 40/20/15m.
The aim of a Bonus station in BERU is to be as available as possible for entrants to work. I did this by having a reasonably strong signal, ceaseless CQing (with some S&P) and having the 2021 winning UK Unassisted entrant’s logfile (thanks Keith GM4YXI / GM5X) to help my somewhat haphazard knowledge of what propagation to expect.
BAND QSO DUP DXC HQ POINTS BONUS AVG
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80 121 0 14 4 140 460 4.96
40 178 4 25 7 330 1020 7.58
20 215 6 33 11 540 1420 9.12
15 76 0 21 1 150 600 9.87
10 25 0 6 1 35 140 7.00
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TOTAL 615 10 99 24 1195 3640 7.86
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TOTAL SCORE : 4 835
WinTest does not have a clue about scoring BERU as an HQ station, so the total score above is incorrect.
FTdx101D + K3 + amps. 80m vertical + dipole + 1 Beverage, 40m Force12 2ele yagi, 20/15m Force12 9ele yagi, 10m 5ele YO6.55 yagi.
Many stations worked GB5CC on four bands – the following stations are in the GB5CC log on all five bands : G4CZB, G3BJ, G4BUO, G3PJT, G3TBK, G4PVM, GM3YTS, M7T, M5DX, G4KNO, G4FNL, G4PIQ, 5Z4VJ, MM0ZBH, GM0GAV, GM4Z.
Thanks to everyone for who worked GB5CC 2022.
73 Chris GM3WOJ