[UK-CONTEST] Jubilee - Thoughts.

[Tim-M5ACC]

I sat down tonight and for the first time had a good look over the rules for
this coming Jubilee contest.
There's a few things I'm disappointed to see..

1. LP-HP categories. (or lack of)
This is a minor point, but some of us cant run full ERP even if we could or
wanted to.
We don't all live in the middle of no where or have a large club station to
op from.
There's separate categories for assisted but not power, is this a typo?
Does this mean my 100w pop gun station is going to be competing directly
against M6T?

2. Mixed mode qso's.
I can not think why these are disallowed. Both IOTA and IARU allow them and
it works.
Mixed mode is a god send when activity is low or towards the end when rates
go low, it's still possible to be kept busy even from an average station.
I tried something new in IOTA last year, eg
I ran on 14250 and kept the sub high in the cw portion 14060. When ever a
new mult called me I tried to get them down onto cw afterwards. Towards the
end of the contest when the rates really dropped down I would try and move
everything that was a new qso. It was kinda like a poor mans SO2R. I only
made around 30 extra q's that way but it was bit more interesting.
Now a big-gun SO2R will be able to bounce them all round the bands no
problem, but I would be limited by a category rule. It's a shame.

3. Work any station except your own call area.
Why do we keep using this stupid rule where we can't work each other?
What's wrong with making (inter-UK) and qso's within call areas minimum
points lets say 1 point. If the ratio of 5-1 is too small make it 10 points
a valid qso.
What's so bad about us working each other anyway, one of the most popular
contests we have is one in which that is the main idea! -AFS.
Imagine 80/40 during the Jubilee during the night and early morning. It's
'hopefully' going to be full of UK guys CQ'ing and no one can work each
other. The M3's, who I guess are still keen to work anything that's
modulated, and any other newcomers to contesting will get told 'sorry I
can't work you!' - wow- nice way to advertise contesting.
If it was a distance thing where were all too close to each other and not
worthy of the points I could understand it, but a 9H can sit on 40/80 and
work Italy all night and that's valid and close to the same distance as
inter UK.
What's the official word on this, why no inter UK qso's?

Of course I'm biased as a little pistol towards what I look for from a
contest. These are my thoughts as I look at this one.
I'm sure it'll have a good turn out and be fun, but these few things *in my
opinion* hold it back from being great one.
GL everyone, I look forward to reading the soapboxes in a few weeks.

Tim-M5ACC.