Contest information and late news.

If you participated in the F9ZX coupe. don't forget to send your logs in. If you have sent me an E-Mail recently it could have been lost as my previous service provider is about to close the account. Whilst I can access my old address I will  but I only scan  the messages before deleting them. Last month the band conditions started to show some improvment so I could resume working some of the overseas nets in the morning and  afternoon from 14.30. Normally I call on 21.390 MHz or 14.285 MHz with the beam facing west but signals radiating from the east can be copied on the back of the beam. It takes my beam around 30 seconds to rotate 180 degrees so please hang on as the QSO improves. 

The good news I have to report is that the Lovell radio telescope at Jodrell Bank in Cheshire appears to have been saved from closure due to lack of govenment funding. The world of radio astronomy has been preserved in this quiet area of Cheshire save for the railway radio a short distance away at Chelford.  Geoff Sims M/C Team Leader.