[UK-CONTEST] Jubilee

[Alan Hydes]

Tim,

Like you I was keen to see a re-run of the Jubilee Contest, as it was a
great success by most measures.  However one of the key things that
would be needed for future success is the support from the rest of the
Commonwealth, and that clearly wasn't there.

Also we had one of the best PR generating machines available to us
... Royalty !   Without it being a Jubilee year (and the GQ prefix to go
with it) I don't think we would have seen the same level of interest from
non-Commonwealth stations.

I suspect there would be an outcry if the BERU contest were to be
re-cast into the mold.

Alan, G3XSV



----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim-M0BEW" <m0bew at blueyonder.co.uk>
To: <uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, December 07, 2002 5:32 PM
Subject: [UK-CONTEST] Jubilee


> What happened to Jubilee?
> Was it not very popular. Could it not have been reworked into a yearly
> contest.
> I think there was mention of it running again in an US
> publication, I can't remember which now, and it's still listed on the
common
> internet contest calendars for 2003.
> What happened to it?
> There were comments that there wasn't enough room in the calendar for both
> Beru and Jubilee.
> I'm kinda disappointed to see it gone before it even had chance to
develop.
> A few
> tweaks in the scoring and rules would have made it a good contest compared
> to others currently in the UK calendar imo.
> What were the reasons for it's going.
> Did Jubilee and Beru go head to head... and Beru win?
>
> Tim-M0BEW.