[UK-CONTEST] G numbers
G3SJJ
g3sjj at btinternet.com
Fri Mar 8 16:15:01 EST 2002
Dave, surely you know the answer to this one already. It has been discussed
enough in Committee, at YDX convention, as I recall and over many beers!
Apart from USA and possibly Russia, we have the most number of domestic
HF contests in the world. 2 AFSs, 2 1.8MHzs, 2 Field Days, 2 ROPOCOs,
2 QRS Cumulatives, 2 21/28MHzs and this year 2 BELOOs. The main thrust
of my time as HFCC Chair was to promote these events as much as possible.
You cannot expect people to support this extensive range of domestic events
as well as being enthusiastic about ARRL, WPX, IARU and CQWW.
Even if my suggestions to combine the 2 Field Days into one and do the same
with 21/28MHz were taken seriously, we would still have a busy programme.
I have always maintained (much to the disgust of certain HFCC members) that
the average UK contester will choose no more than 6 events to participate
in.
The more enthusiastic may aspire, and even manage, 12 events over a year,
but
it really is too much to expect more, considering also now the number of
social
events. I attend three weekend events and several day/evening ones.
In my early married life, I used to make a list of about 8 or 9 contests I
hoped to
enter, 3 or 4 were non-negotiable (as far as I was concerned!) ie NFD,
1.8MHz,
7MHz. Anything else was a bonus. These days I am much luckier. Geez, I've
done 4 already this year and still have IOTA, SSB FD, Club Calls, 2nd 1.8MHz
& ARRL 10m contests to go. Never mind the social events and dabbling in a
few
others. Of course, I will still need to put aside some weekends to work on
antennas!
And that's the point. Many of us will dabble in these other events but have
no wish to
put a log in. I made 20 and 37 Qs in the ARRL CW/SSB events respectively,
they
are logged in Turbolog and there is no way I am going mess around creating
an entry
file. It was purely "a dabble."
Of course if you wish to encourage me to be more serious in some other non
UK events,
then you must accept that I will drop some RSGB events. Last year I did the
21/28MHz
SSB and CW legs, I have now decided they are a dead duck and will
concentrate any
time available on the CQWWs.
I think the moral here is that HFCC need to have a more "global" stance.
Retain a core
of events eg AFSs, combined FD, Club Calls, possibly one 1.8MHz and/or a
combined
21/28MHz, but then encompass some other events in the portfolio. Some of the
trophies
could even be awarded to leading UK stations in various categories.
Let's be a bit more forward thinking.
Chris G3SJJ
----- Original Message -----
From: Dave Lawley <g4buo at compuserve.com>
To: UK Reflector <uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 5:56 PM
Subject: [UK-CONTEST] G numbers
> Hi Guys
>
> Copied this from W3LPL's score report on the 3830 reflector, it is a count
> of the number of QSOs his station made with each country in the ARRL phone
> contest. There's very nearly as many QSOs with G as with DL, and no other
> Eu country comes close. If you add the other UK countries (after all this
is
> the UK contest reflector) we're well ahead.
>
> So, why are there always tons more entries from DL, EA, I, SP, OK etc. in
the
> major contests? Perhaps we have a large number of casuals who don't mind
handing
> out the odd QSO to some of the big stations but don't see themselves as
competing
> in the contest. Is there some scope here for getting them to step up the
ladder
> a bit?
>
> Sometimes, reading stuff on this reflector you would get the impression
that
> UK contesting is in trouble. Looking at Frank's numbers you'd come to a
different
> conclusion.
>
> Dave G4BUO
>
>
> QSO Counts By Band-Country (10 or more QSOs on any band)
>
> PRFX 160 80 40 20 15 10
>
> Europe
>
> 9A 2 7 7 19 18 27
> CT 1 3 3 12 8 17
> DL 13 44 71 234 213 256
> EA 1 14 22 54 58 62
> EI 1 4 4 9 9 16
> ES 3 4 11 12
> EU 1 1 10 10 7
> F 3 23 32 102 71 77
> G 13 50 65 256 177 207
> GI 1 11 10 11
> GM 2 6 13 35 23 29
> GW 1 10 12 36 25 26
> HA 5 12 11 29 26 31
> HB 6 8 12 28 24 21
> I 9 44 69 192 164 198
> LA 4 8 23 18 23
> LY 1 7 7 12 10 16
> LZ 8 6 20 22 23
> OE 1 5 6 23 22 31
> OH 4 7 33 34 43
> OK 3 21 18 43 50 68
> OM 3 9 4 16 21 22
> ON 1 10 14 38 37 48
> OZ 2 6 6 18 17 21
> PA 2 8 10 44 40 51
> S5 3 17 12 35 38 50
> SM 6 9 42 39 38
> SP 3 21 22 53 57 72
> SV 7 6 15 14 14
> UA 4 21 32 192 119 119
> UR 11 17 92 66 60
> YL 7 8 9 10 14
> YO 1 3 15 13 10
> YU 11 10 36 36 45
>
> Asia
>
> 4X 1 12 9 16
>
> HL 2 13 32 32
> JA 9 101 245 335 458
> UA9 10 87 75 45
> UN 10 7 5
> VU 10 12 7
>
> Oceania
>
> DU 1 10 10 9
> KH6 2 4 3 6 8 10
> VK 5 12 62 38 14
> YB 1 5 13 6
> ZL 1 2 19 7 6
>
> North America
>
> KL 3 8 11
> XE 2 3 5 13 5 6
>
> South America
>
> LU 1 3 5 19 22 47
> PY 1 5 8 14 19 36
>
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