Although we have two 7700s, for this outing we wanted to compare our IC-7800 and the new IC-7700 alongside each other in contest conditions. It’s all well and good reading up on stats and what radio has the best performance numbers but at the end of the day this means little if you can’t use [...]

M/2 HP — Ops: G6PZ, M0CLW, M0SDX, G4MJS, G7VJR
Claimed score: 14,311,563 mil

This year the team decided that we should give multi-two a try. This is new territory for us as the station is optomised for multi-single events and we would be straying outside our comfort zone somewhat. That said we gave it a go!
Before the start we pulled the existing computers and set up a [...]

 
 I would like to thank Ian Lockyer and all at ICOM UK for sponsoring us with two new IC-7700s.
Also, Ron Stone (GW3YDX) for all his help and advice over the years. His company Vine Antennas Ltd. http://www.vinecom.co.uk/ have supplied the SteppIR aerials, Prosistel rotators and Acom 2000A amplifiers.
 

Vine Antennas and Prosistel are also sponsoring a PST-71 [...]

A couple of months ago we had a really big storm and the Cushcraft X7 HF Yagi and Tower was eating dirt. The damage was pretty severe when the tower section crumpled pushing the X7 into the ground. Luckily the main tower and aerials survived although the 160m loop was damaged.
Most of the elements [...]

I must start by thanking Icom Japan, Icom UK and Mark Haynes (M0DXR) in setting up the sponsorship deal that has led to us receiving these radios, when Mark first approached Icom some time ago the possibility of maybe one IC-756 PRO III sounded fantastic but when Icom said “how about two IC-7700s” then what [...]

I’ve included this on my blog as I only just found out about it while trawling the results page at CQWW.
I must add that the station was in a middle of an aerial upgrade and no real 40m aerial was available
It would have been interesting to have seen how Gerry’s performance would have improved if [...]