G0VHF/P :: RSGB
QRP Contests, August 2006

Last year, I asked: "Is life too short for QRP?"
This year, the contest - on 70cms, at least - was too long!
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G0VHF/P
[05/06 August 2006]

Photo: The 70cm rig with (right) the 2m primary ready for disassembly

QRP 2006 - continued

That said, 2 metres surprised us with a 1000km+ QSO into EA2 on the key but 70 cms was poorly populated and with the experiments undertaken was somewhat dissappointing; but we must take some responsibility for the poor showing on this band, overall.

CCG 27 Aug 2006

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