[UK-CONTEST] FW: G4PIQ/P Jubillee Results

[Andy Cook, G4PIQ]

>     Callsign Used : G4PIQ/P
>          Operator : G4PIQ
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>          Category : Single Op Assisted HP Mixed Mode
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>    BAND   Raw QSOs   Valid QSOs   Points   Countries   
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>    20CW      100         100        495         4 
>    20SSB       4           4         20         3 
>    15CW      117         117        570         7 
>    15SSB      43          43        210         4 
>    10CW       25          25        125         4 
>    10SSB      11          11         55         1 
>  ______________________________________________________
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>  Totals      300         300       1475        23 
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> 
>     Final Score = 33925 points.
> 
> Rig : FT1000MP + Alpha 87A + TH5 @ 24m.
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>  Soapbox Comments
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> Just a short 3 hour session (Saturday afternoon) to do some WRTC practice
> . All the time that I had available that weekend with a combination of a
> wedding reception and work!
> 
> I ran assisted in order to replicate some of the WRTC operating
> requirements, though - as Nigel, TXF said - not a lot of mults through
> that route, and ran high power for the first time in a while to get the
> rate up - hopefully a bit more like WRTC will be too....... Shuffled a few
> folks from band to band with one radio to get the optimum technique for
> that as well - always easier with 2 radios.
> 
> I liked the overall contest, but - like everyone else - thought that there
> were too few mults and too little support from the Commonwealth. No great
> surprise I guess - difficult enough to get support for BERU and its been
> going since the ark floated. 
> 
> I think in a future year, my vote would be to allow own call area stations
> to work one another - and probably have it for equal points - but would
> need to do some fag packet calculations to look at how far this would push
> UK score up over DX, and I'd have the UK call areas as seperate mults. The
> rare ones are already at an advantage in a work-everyone contest through
> their relative rarity for DXCC so I don't think this move would skew the
> competiton significantly.
> 
> I thought the mixed mode format was good, but - like Chris, WOJ and some
> others, I'm not sure that there's a place for this and BERU in the
> calander. It's the usual dilution of activity problem. This should be have
> enough of the characteristics of BERU to be saleable to most of the BERU
> contingent I would hope (though I guess others know them better than me),
> but also has new features (SSB, work anyone) which make it more attractive
> to other folks. I personally think the format is better than BERU and the
> lack of takeup this time may have been down to lack of familiarity with
> the timeslot and the event. 
> 
> Andy.
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