Not really anything significant to report, however I was operating for a larger part of the contest (1400-0030 and 0830-1400) and manged a few more contacts than in 2009.

Both bands were so lacking in activity that it was not really aparent that there was any contest on at all.

The full results of the 2009 RSGB 50MHz UK Activity contests, which are held on the 4th Tuesday of each month have today been published by the RSGB VHF Contest  Committee (see http://www.rsgbcc.org/vhf/results/09/6mukac.html).

The results confirm that I managed to win the AR section with Mike and Ann Stevens (operating as G8CUL) in a close second place (well done).

Thanks to all those that took part for a very interesting year on 6m and see you all on the band again in 2010

Happy New Year

Stewart G0LGS

Having heard very little during the Winter SPe season for the last two years, I was a little surprised yesterday when I was informed that 10m and 6m were open, on initially checking 6m nothing was to be heard above my S4-5 of almost constant noise (on the vertical dipole), but there were a few stations on 10m.

Whilst only 6 contacts were made on 10m I still managed to get 4 new squares on the band (IM67, IN82, IN50, IN70). A few stations were heard on 6m, but only one contact was made, let us hope that the activity was just the start of a couple of weeks of Winter SPe openings.

Well having had nothing to say anything about for a while, mainly due to the lack of anything new being heard / worked I have decided it is time to at least post a report.

Last weekends HF CQ SSB contest saw a flurry of activity with a number of stations being logged on 10m and some on 15m too. This included what are probably new DXCC's for me on 10m with 9K2HN and on 15m with LQ0F and LV5V.

There were in execess of 50 contacts on 10m during a couple of bursts of activity over the weekend and around 20 contacts on 15m so not a massive effort, but its more activity on HF than has been seen from the G0LGS shack for sometime.

Today's 50 MHz UKAC event was quite busy, but due to the QSB failed to complete with one station. However 2 all-time new Squares were worked with GW3NSA in IO72 and GI4SNA in IO64 to bring my all-time total to 300 Squares.