I’m a couple of weeks late writing this post but on the weekend of 23-24 March, I again headed down to the UK Scout Headquarters station at Gilwell Park to join the team operating GB2GP for the CQ WPX SSB contest.
![Shack with two stations operating, and Flex waterfall on large TV](https://www.domsmith.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/IMG_20180325_105050-1024x768.jpg)
GB2GP during WPX
Rather than me repeat what has already been said, a write-up of the event is in the UK-HF-Contesting reflector from Steve M0BPQ.
Claimed scores were:
Band QSOs Pts WPX Pt/Q 3.5 437 1106 253 2.5 7 690 1734 256 2.5 14 877 1699 350 1.9 21 122 296 57 2.4 Total 2126 4835 916 2.3 Score: 4,428,860
As in the ARRL contest a few weeks ago, it was really interesting using the Flex as a contest rig. I think I could get used to it. I’m still not convinced by N1MM, though, and feel far more at home with Win-Test / DXLog.net. Most of the usability issues we found seemed to be caused by the Flex / N1MM interplay: in particular, N1MM’s multiplicity of windows means that the right thing has to be focused at the right time, which is hard if you are also using a software defined radio.
As ever, many thanks to the Gilwell Park team, and particularly Steve M0BPQ and John 2E0XLX for having us.