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AS A CLUB WE SHOULD ENCOURAGE THE USE OF /A WHEN NOT AT YOUR HOME QTH WE USE QRZ OR THE CALLBOOK TO FIND THE WAB SQUARES FROM THE ADDRESS LISTED WHEN WORKING STATIONS IN CONTESTS YOU CANNOT ASK FOR THE WAB LOCATOR SO IT IS COMMOM PRACTICE TO LOOK UP THE ADDRESS ON QRZ OR CALLBOOK AND WORK OUT THE WA...

I agree with the above comments the use of /a is useful to tell the station you work that you are not at the address that is in the
callbook.
so as the call g4/g7wab are club calls with no fixed address /a is not of any use

I HAVE BEEN LICENSED FOR OVER 45 YEARS, AND I HAVE NOT WORKED A STATION BEFORE OPERATING FROM A HOME USING MAINS POWER, USING THE /P PREFIX SO I WENT TO THE LICENSING ON THE OFCOM WEB SITE LOOKED AT THE LICENSE CONDITIONS AND IT IS OBVIOUS TO ME THAT /A SHOULD BE USED, BELOW IS WHAT I FOUND IF THE L...

go to
nearby.org.uk web site
select coordinate converter

enter maidenhead locater which you should have the wab locater will be shown

I suggest some reading of basic propagation, signal strengths are less, effects of solar flares, are worse during the spring/summer months due to longer daylight hours, increasing the d layer absorption
even 80 meters is usable during daylight hours, during the winter months

hi Damian to continue your analogy of yacht racing when there is no wind, they delay or cancel racing , but unfortunately when we have no propagation we cant cancel so I would have thought the committee should organise contests to take place when propagation has the best chance of being good. there ...

Thanks for your support Mark, first reaction from our contest manager under topic NEWS is that he has had lots of entries so conditions could not be that bad it could have been much better, if the conditions were good poor conditions seem to effect certain areas of the country differently conditions...

THE 2nd YEAR RUNNING OF POOR CONDITIONS ON THE LF BANDS I CALLED CQ FOR A HOUR WITH NO REPLIES, GAVE UP ! COULD THE CONTEST DATE BE CHANGED TO A TIME WHEN THERE IS A BETTER CHANCE OF GOOD CONDITIONS. IE END OF THE YEAR OR THE THE FIRST FEW MONTHS OF THE YEAR I KNOW CONDITIONS CHANGE FROM YEAR TO YEA...