{"id":1838,"date":"2012-09-13T12:52:26","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T11:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/?p=1838"},"modified":"2012-09-13T12:52:26","modified_gmt":"2012-09-13T11:52:26","slug":"2m-cumulative-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/2m-cumulative-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"2m cumulative contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All most every month there is a 2m contest called the cumulative contest (full title <em>144MHz UKAC contest<\/em>) and is held in the evening for a few hours. On Tuesday the 4th of September I decided to work the contest from a site near Stapleford in Essex.<\/p>\n<p>On arrival, I connected up my FT-817 and proceeded to work the contest. The installation is a 100Ah battery \/ 2KvA generator, and a 9 element tonna that can be adjusted from 15 to 30ft.<\/p>\n<p>I checked the ON and PA beacons, which we normally hear at about 5 &amp; 3, these were 5\/7 so conditions were good.\u00a014 stations were worked \u00a0in 40 minutes, ON, PA, DL, F, GD, GW and of course G.<\/p>\n<p>George, M1GEO and David G7UVW arrived and we swapped the rig for an Icom 7000 and a 100w linear. This enabled us to work further afield and of course we could now compete with the other portable stations. George worked into SK7 (Sweden) and a good number of stations on the continent.<\/p>\n<p>All in all a good evenings operating was accomplished.<\/p>\n<p>Why more amateurs don\u2019t get on 2m SSB is strange, it\u2019s the only way to work the DX. It\u2019s real radio not 2m FM(CB), D-Star etc.<\/p>\n<p>73<\/p>\n<p>John G0VEH \u00a0(email: g0veh@lefars.org.uk)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Further info<\/strong><br \/>\n144MHz UKAC \u00a0contest details <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rsgbcc.org\/cgi-bin\/contest_rules.pl?year=2012&amp;contest=2mukac&amp;seq=\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><br \/>\nRSGB contest calendar (overview)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rsgbcc.org\/cgi-bin\/readcal.pl\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All most every month there is a 2m contest called the cumulative contest (full title 144MHz UKAC contest) and is held in the evening for a few hours. On Tuesday the 4th of September I decided to work the contest &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/2m-cumulative-contest\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-operating-reports","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p22sia-tE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1839,"href":"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1838\/revisions\/1839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}