RSGB FT4 Activity Day
Results are out, we came third!
Last weekend was the RSGB FT4 Activity Day Contest (it ran over two days). This year, GM1TGY, as GM5G, took part running in the Multi-op two-radio category. This meant the main Kenwood TS890S had all the antennas and ran a Kenwood TS990 all the time on 40m.
Conditions on the higher bands were poor. 15/10m on Saturday never really opened, but 20m and lower were okay, though there were periods when we had just run out of people to work, so maybe a little more activity would have been nice. Sunday morning, however, was very busy towards Asia (Japan, China, Australia) on both 20m & 15m, and that kept us going along with 40m European stations until the end.
We did find that activity on 160m seemed low. I'm not sure if that was conditions, the times we went on the band, or some other unknown reason, but we could have done a lot better numbers-wise there.
