{"id":1989,"date":"2013-05-22T10:47:11","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T09:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/?p=1989"},"modified":"2013-05-22T12:59:33","modified_gmt":"2013-05-22T11:59:33","slug":"1st-rsgb-144mhz-backpackers-portable-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/1st-rsgb-144mhz-backpackers-portable-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"1st RSGB 144MHz Backpackers portable contest"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last Sunday (19th May) I took advantage of the sun and entered in the first back packer series of the year. The series is all around operating outdoors with a battery and low power. If you can trek up a mountain or a hill that’s fine, but you don’t have to in order to take part. The contest is suited to M3 and M6 operators, the power category is either 3 or 10w.<\/p>\n

Read the rules online, its not complicated the exchange is serial, location and first two letters of your postcode.
\nhttp:\/\/www.rsgbcc.org\/cgi-bin\/contest_rules.pl?year=2013&contest=144backpack1&seq=<\/a><\/p>\n

A typical exchange would be “you 57 001 in JO01DP postcode CM”<\/strong><\/p>\n

I took part from Brentwood, hardly a hilltop and setup a station, with John M0UKD. All operators have to be RSGB members, if you are not a RSGB member then you can take part, give away points and submit a check log but you can’t enter the contest “as such”<\/p>\n

The other advantage of this event is it only lasts 4 Hrs, they usually start at 12 and finish at 4.<\/p>\n

The basic setup used was Icom 7000, 6m pole, 9E portable beam. Power was from a battery. We operated in the 10w category.<\/p>\n

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We worked 43 station including 2xDL, GD, GW, MM and ON best DX for the day was DF0WD at 560Km.<\/p>\n

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You can see our claimed score, and how others done \u00a0here
\nhttp:\/\/www.rsgbcc.org\/cgi-bin\/claim.pl?Contest=1st%20144MHz%20Backpackers&year=2013<\/a><\/p>\n

Be sure to check out the contest calendar, and even if you can’t get out \/P maybe give some points away…
\nhttp:\/\/www.rsgbcc.org\/cgi-bin\/readcal.pl<\/a><\/p>\n

73 Dave<\/p>\n

M0TAZ (email: m0taz@lefars.org.uk<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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