[UK-CONTEST] Jubilee - Thoughts.

[Tim-M5ACC]

Thanks for the comments Chris.
Concerning LF-40/80, I was worried that there wouldn't be enough activity to
sustain the early hours (0100-0500) and every qso even if it was from
inter-UK would be a bonus.
As for HF I have never suffered from the scatter signals from inter-UK, I
guess being in the middle of the country puts me at an advantage for this.
Although I can't say it's ever been a huge problem with PA, F, ON etc
either.
I've never been in the position where I've been able to pick and choose out
of a pile-up for maximum points :-) I have to take everything that comes.
I have zero experience from op'ing a big station so these things didn't even
fall into my calculations when I thought it through, I never realised it was
such a hassle.
Thanks.


Clive, what's all this in NCJ ?
A brief outline would be nice, what's changing?


Tim-M5ACC.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Tran GM3WOJ" <gm3woj at talk21.com>
To: "Tim-M5ACC" <m5acc at blueyonder.co.uk>; <uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, May 20, 2002 6:57 AM
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] Jubilee - Thoughts.


> Hi Tim et al
>
> I'd like to pick up one of your points, concerning inter-UK
> working.  There was some debate about this on this
> reflector a while ago.  I am one of those who think it's
> a bad idea Tim, mainly for reasons of propagation.
>
> On LF, with the exception of the extremities of the
> country, everyone in the UK should be able to work
> each other fairly easily - how many stations ?- your
> guess is as good as mine but I would think 200-300
> approx. for a contest like the Jubilee.  Trying to get
> QSOs on 80m from the UK in e.g. CQ WW results in
> a very low QSO rate.
>
> On HF, inter-UK working would (a) disadvantage the
> smaller stations who cannot generate sufficient
> backscatter to be easily heard by other UK stations
> (reduced backscatter is noticeable now as the
> sunspot cycle has dropped a bit) (b) disadvantage
> the bigger stations who would struggle to work other
> UK stations, or would be criticised if they opted to
> just ignore the '1-point' weak UK callers and work
> easier QSOs worth more points.
>
> I think part of the reasoning is also to make the UK
> a 'focus' for international activity, rather than a parochial
> contest like AFS.
>
> I don't really think an M3 would be put off contesting if
> the station called takes a few seconds to simply explain
> that the rules of this particular contest do not allow
> inter-UK working.
>
> IOTA note - don't use NA version 10.56 - you can't enter
> 3-digit IOTA references !
>
> 73
> Chris   GM3WOJ
> www.gm7v.com
>
>
>
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